Scope of Training Services

• NIHOTOUR's training programmes cover the following major areas:
• Planning and Management of the hospitality, travel and tourism and rural tourism development.
• Human Resource development and general operations management.
• Tourism & hospitality finance and credit management.
• Hospitality, travel and tourism research management.
• Development of training curricular for training.
• Entrepreneurship and SMEs enterprise development and management in the industry subsector.
• Training the trainers and institution of learning.
• Management Information System (MIS) and data processing in tourism & hospitality.
• Youth development and empowerment.
• Operation of multi-campus system to reach out effectively.

Further to the above regular training, the institute also organises workshops and conferences on topical issues related to hospitality, travel and tourism development and management and policy matters. Since inception NIHOTOUR has been organizing national and international courses and has been acclaimed as a centre of excellence in Travel and Tourism Management training in the West African sub-region.

Teahing Approach

NIHOTOUR programmes/courses are designed to provide practical and technical skills operational and managerial knowledge acquisition and assistance to all levels of managers, supervisors and frontline personnel serving in both the public and private sectors of the national economy.

Lectures: The institute has lectures, instructors and technicians who specialize in various areas of the industry. They employ the method of imparting knowledge into the students psyche.

Participatory: This method emphasis the sharing of learning experience, case studies, syndicate discussions, and role plays for real industrial life experiences to be applied and absolved on topical issues of curricular. Laboratories, and managerial clinics are operated for the improvement of human relations and interaction. There are globalised modern training technology equipment and education study tours to minimize the gap between theoretical and practical know-how.

Follow up: The system collates post graduation experience of the students/participants to measure level of assimilation and application of acquired knowledge to job situation. Specific tasks are also given the students for review and update.