Singapore sees 50% rise in tourism training demand
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The Tourism Management Institute of Singapore (TMIS) has said that it has seen demand for its training courses rise by 50% in the first quarter of this year, as more companies take advantage of generous government training incentives during the economic downturn.
ChannelNews Asia reported TMIS’ Chief Executive Officer, HP Loi, as saying; “We have a lot of corporate companies - travel agents, hotels and even airlines - send their people to us for training. When you have people coming in groups, the numbers went up a lot.”
The 22-year-old institute, which is the training arm of the National Association of Travel Agents of Singapore (NATAS), is one of the country’s largest centres offering mostly skills-based training, ranging from short courses to longer diploma stints. TMIS has some 500 foreign students and 3,000 local students each year, and it said the number of locals is growing sharply.
“There are two categories of local students. One category is from the industry doing upgrading and the other is made up of people interested in joining the tourism industry. These could be mid-career people who want to switch or young people who are interested to get in,” Loi added.
The hike in demand is also thought to be due to the up-coming opening of Resorts World, in Sentosa. A four-day job fair for the integrated resort recently attracted over 20,000 applications.
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