The online submission of applications for admission to the public Vocational Training Institutes (IVT) of Tourism, for the academic year 2022-2023, starts on Monday, August 22, 2022.

The applications concern the coverage of 914 positions in the eight public IVT of Tourism in:

• Anavyssos Attica
• Perea Thessaloniki
• Heraklion Crete
• Corfu
• Rhodes
• Argos
• Galaxidi
• Alexandroupoli

The specialties are: a) hospitality executive, b) culinary technician - chef, c) baker - pastry chef, d) executive of administration and economy in the field of tourism

At the same time, by decision of the Deputy Minister of Tourism in charge of Tourism Education, Sofia Zacharaki, Two new experimental specialties are established for the first time training at IVT Thessaloniki: a) for hospitality executives, specializing in the field of room management, b) for travel and tourism executives. With these two new departments, the Ministry of Tourism aspires toPut innovation at the core of tourism education, while the Association of Travel Agencies of Macedonia-Thrace (ETGMTH), the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (HCH) and the Office for Attracting Conferences and Visitors of the Metropolitan Area of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Convention Bureau (TCB) contributed with their know-how for the educational, scientific and research support of the project. All those who hold a General, Technical or Vocational High School Diploma, regardless of age, have the right to apply to public IEK Tourism. They reserve the right to participate and candidates who completed a parallel computerized form, but did not succeed in their admission to an IEK department. Applications can only be submitted via the special link on the website: www.mintour.edu.gr, until Sunday, September 11, 2022. The distribution of positions and specialties per IVT, the terms and conditions admission, as well as credit criteria for candidates are defined in detail to the admission notice attached.

Sofia Zacharaki, Deputy Minister of State for Tourism, responsible for Tourism Education at the Tourism IEKs

"At the Ministry of Tourism we attribute a leading role to tourism vocational training, as we firmly believe that the qualitative upgrade of the Greek tourism experience passes through the high professionalism of the people of Greek tourism. With targeted actions, we put at the core of our initiatives the qualitative upgrade of public IVT Tourism, based on the real needs of the labor market and giving our students the necessary skills they need for multiple opportunities and quality jobs in the tourism industry. And we don't stop there. We are expanding the curriculum with two new experimental specialties, with an emphasis on educational and professional innovation. We issue a new, modern regulation of operation of our IVT and accelerate the procedures for the registration of new students, earlier than any other year. We have modernized, after eleven years, the internship of the students of the ministry's schools, while faithful to the commitment of the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, we are granting for the first time - since this academic year - a housing allowance to the students of all our IVT. At the same time, we are launching the establishment of the first public Tourism Academy, as part of the collective effort we are making for the overall reform of tourism education. Because, tourism is a key pillar of support for the national economy. And upgrading our tourism education means further upgrading and enhancing the competitiveness of our own tourism product."