The Ministry of Tourism launches online certificate programme for creating well-trained and professional tourist facilitators across India

Thursday, August 12, 2021

The Ministry of Tourism has launched an online certificate programme for creating a pool of well-trained and professional tourist facilitators across India.

The Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM), which is an self-governing institute of the ministry, is the implementing agency behind the programme known as Incredible India Tourist Facilitator/ Incredible India Tourist Guide (IITF/IITG), which is a digital initiative, said the Tourism minister G. Kishan Reddy in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.

“The programme was operationalized on 01.01.2020. The system will provide basic, advanced (IITF-Heritage and Adventure), spoken language and refresher courses for candidates. Inputs are being received by IITTM from the leading universities for developing the course content. The candidates can pursue these online courses from anywhere and at any time and at their own pace,” Mr. Reddy said.

The online courses can be accessed from different digital devices. On completing the course successfully, an individual will be a professionally certified tourist facilitator who will support tourists by spreading information, bringing forth interest in them about India and by providing experiential tourism, Minister Reddy added.

The Ministry of Tourism is also offering (offline) six week language courses i.e. Dutch, German, French, Japanese, Chinese for training Linguistic Tourist Facilitators (LTF) for tourism service providers under its suo-motu-initiatives under the scheme of ‘Capacity Building for Service Providers’ (CBSP).

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