Vocational Training Secondary School of Tourism “Dr. Vasil Beron”

Vocational Training Secondary School of Tourism “Dr. Vasil Beron” – Veliko Turnovo is a state vocational training school. The town of Veliko Tunovo is situated in the central part of Bulgaria and it is the old capital of Bulgaria. The school is established in 1964 as Vocational School of Catering. It has nearly fourty years long history and it is a school with rich traditions in preparing cadres for all tourism fields.
The school offers four and five year training courses in tourism which provide the students with second and third degree of vocational qualification and the school provides as well fourth degree of vocational qualification which is a college degree.
There are about 500 students aged 13 to 19 on average and the teachers’ staff is 42.
The vocational training certificates are in the areas of:

• tourism management;
• production and serving in hotels and catering establishments – cook, waiter, barman;
• tour guiding and animation;
• bread making and confectionary;
• Graphic design

Vocational subjects as Foreign languages, Tourism, Computer science, Hospitality, Catering, Culinary arts, Hotel management, Geography, Communication skills, Sommelier, develop the student skills in the vocational domains and the school workshops and specialists prepare the students in conditions close to the real working environment.