Published on : Thursday, April 26, 2018
As officiating at the event, Prof Ephraim Kamuntu, the Minister for Tourism told UHTTI staff that “you must aim at being the leading tourism training institute as well as have a quality a curriculum to train competitive human resource.”
“Most of the Managers in our Hotels are foreigners, not because we aren’t equally good but because we lacked competent institutions to train our people in these skills. Today therefore is a landmark in the journey we have been trekking,” he said.
“This is phase one. We look forward to continuous progress – a journey of a thousand miles begins today.”
The Uganda Hotel and Tourism Training Institute (UHTTI) kick started in middle of 1980 after a feasibility study under the project UNDP/ILO/UG/30.The institute was developed at Fairway Hotel in Kampala in 1989 as a pilot school under the ILO/UNDP.
In 1991, when Fairway Hotel was reclaimed by its original owners, ILO/UNDP pulled out of the project, leaving it completely to the Government of Uganda.
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