In an effort to enhance the tourism offerings, Kesari Tours and the Hospitality Training Institute, recently joined hands to launch the Kesari-HTI Travel Academy.
The event was inaugurated by Gaur Kanjilal, regional director, India tourism, Ministry of Tourism, GOI. The Academy offers a one-year job-oriented Diploma in Travel and Tourism Management, with a guaranteed six-month paid internship at Kesari. The eligibility criteria are HSC with conversational skills in English.
Elaborating on the initiative, Veena Patil, director, Kesari Tours said, “Tourism has become more a knowledge-based industry, thanks to the importance on innovativeness in tourism product development and marketing. It is poised for massive growth with new career opportunities in hospitality and tourism. To meet this demand, we need quality personnel that we lack despite a large number of travel and tourism institutes in the country. This is due to a huge gap between the course syllabus and industry requirements, which will now be filled in by the Kesari-HTI Travel Academy.”
Dominic Costabir, director of Hospitality Training Institute, said, “From the inception HTI, with its experienced faculty, updated syllabus and job-oriented courses, has been providing trained personnel to the hospitality industry. I am confident that the Kesari-HTI Travel Academy will help aspiring students shape their career in tourism.” HTI also offers courses in Hotel Management, Food Production, Bakery, F&B Service, Bartending and Retail Sales Management.
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"There is a rush towards travel and tourism," Kuoni Academy of Travel vice president and head Kamal Hingorani told IANS, pointing out that the projected 10 million jobs were nearly three times more than the IT industry is expected to generate in the same period.
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With many private airlines coming up this year, the tourism and airline industry will open up the job market for young graduates. Sources from the tourism industry forecast that the next 10 years will see India’s travel and tourism demand grow by 8.8 percent. This growth rate, they said, would be the highest in the world.
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This is human beings' first large-scale scientific expedition to travel through the unpopulated zone of Hoh Xil, where the CAS, the former State Science and Technology Commission and northwest China's Qinghai Province had conducted a three-month general scientific expedition in 1990.
Dr. Ding Lin, head of the expedition team
AirTran Airways Launches 48-Hour Sale for Travel To/From Atlanta
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