The Ministry of Tourism announced the start of the electronic submission of applications for admission to the public Vocational Training Institutes IEK Tourism for the academic year 2023-2024.

Applications will be submitted exclusively through the special link on the website www.mintour.edu.gr from Monday July 17th until Monday September 11th.

The applications concern the coverage of 881 positions in the eight public IEK Tourism that operate under the supervision of the Ministry of Tourism in Anavyssos, Perea, Heraklion, Corfu, Rhodes, Argos, Galaxidi and Alexandroupolis, in the following specialties:

a) executive of accommodation units,
b) culinary art technician – chef,
c) baker-pastry technician,
d) administrative and economic executive in the tourism sector.

It is noted that for the second year in a row the two new experimental tourism training specialties will operate at the IEK Macedonia in Thessaloniki for:

a) hospitality business executives with expertise in the field of room management and
b) executives of travel and tourism businesses.

With these two experimental specialties, the Ministry of Tourism aspires to put innovation at the core of tourism education, while for the educational, scientific and research support of the experimental specialties, the Association of Tourist Offices of Macedonia-Thrace (ETGMTH), the Hotel Chamber of Greece (XEE) and the Thessaloniki Convention Bureau (TCB).

For the first time this year, the new experimental specialty “Executives of travel and tourism companies” will operate in Corfu, at the IEK Tourism Institute of the Ionian Islands, after its successful first implementation at the Macedonian IEK Tourism Institute.

Everyone who holds a General, Technical or Vocational High School diploma has the right to apply to the public IEK Tourism, regardless of age.
Candidates who completed a parallel computerized report, but did not succeed in being admitted to an IEK department, also retain the right to participate.
The distribution of positions and specializations per IEK Tourism, the terms and conditions of admission, as well as the scoring criteria for candidates are specified in detail in the admission announcement.