The University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, as an affiliate member of the World Tourism Organization UNWTO, traditionally through appropriate activities, annually celebrates September 27 - World Tourism Day.

This year, marking Tourism Day, thematically united the two educational institutions that produce staff for the needs of the tourism industry, namely: the Faculty of Tourism in Skopje and the High School of the City of Skopje “Lazar Tanev”.

Organized by the Faculty of Tourism, today UTMS students and teachers from high school stayed, who in addition to the opportunity to get acquainted with the conditions, manner and methodology of work in the process of profiling higher education staff, have improved their knowledge through the training provided by at the Faculty of Tourism and Association of Bartenders of Macedonia.

On the importance of tourism and its contribution to the economic development globally, prof. Mijalce Gjorgievski, Ph.D., Professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Pro-Rector for Teaching at UTMS.

At the end of the activities dedicated to the World Tourism Day, an Agreement was signed for further cooperation between the two institutions, presented through Assoc. Dr. Sasko Gramatnikovski, Dean of the Faculty of Tourism at UTMS and Ms. Slagjana Trpkovska Saltirova, Director of the SUGS “Lazar Tanev”.

After all, this way of celebrating the day correlates with the World Tourism Organization's commitment to developing awareness of the importance of tourism in economic recovery and job creation.