UG tourism unit hosts curriculum consultation
The Tourism Studies Unit of the University of Guyana (UG) will host a consultation and workshop on June 24, aimed at involving the tourism industry stakeholders in the process of upgrading the university's tourism studies curriculum. According to a release from the unit, these deliberations are expected to advance significantly the Project '99 curriculum review that was launched last November. Participants in the one-day session will come mainly from UG, the hotel sector, conservation agencies, restaurant establishments, tourism resorts, the airline business and other tourism related entities. The consultation will focus on three main issues with the first being the unit's intention to institute industrial attachments as an integral part of its tourism programme. The industrial attachment is said to be a mechanism that would require third year tourism students to work for a stipulated number of hours in the tourism industry as a complement to in-class instruction. Second is the matter of the upgrading of the Tourism Studies Unit's programme of eco-tourism management, through a proposed collaboration with the Iwokrama Rainforest Centre, while the third is the introduction of modules in travel service management. Tourism Consultant and Managing Director of Leisure Hospitality and Tourism International, Cliff Hamilton, will return to Guyana to make presentations at the consultation.
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