TAAI’s endeavour to promote tourism and encourage youth to enhance their skills from grass root levels has seen a change after TAAI Tourism Council Chairman, Jay Bhatia initiated and signed a MOU with HR college in Mumbai, last year.
Working the way forward, TAAI’s Karnataka Chapter has signed a MoU with Garden City College of Management in Bangalore. Chairman of TAAI Karnataka Chapter, M.S Raghavan signed the MOU on behalf of TAAI on 20th October 2015 for a period of 3 years.
GCC offers undergraduate and post graduate courses and is affiliated to the Bangalore University. Bachelor of Arts Degree in Tourism, History & Journalism, a three years degree course and Masters in Tourism Administration, a two years Master’s degree course, are being conducted by the Department of Tourism at the Garden City College.
TAAI will enhance and cultivate on the job value to the students and create an industry and academia platform for nurturing new talent.
Garden City college shall also seek TAAI assistance is organising speakers from the industry for guest lectures to the students, sourcing live projects for students and many more activities. TAAI members shall also place the students as interns during the duration of the course.
“Students will get an opportunity to witness specialist presentations and attend industry related seminars/programs organised by TAAI or its partners” stated Raghavan. TAAI is already in the process of tying up with various colleges and universities and taking up educational initiatives in India as well as with Global Institutes. The initiative is being hugely welcomed by students as they have a good platform to pursue their interest in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality sectors and enter the industry as professionals.
