Hospitality, Tourism, Skilled Graduates are Self-Employable and Employable

- Says DG NIHOTOUR

Group Photograph of final year students of the Department of Leisure and Tourism Management, Federal Polytechnic, Idah. during their courtesy visit to Alhaji Nura Sani Kangiwa, Director General, National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism NIHOTOUR at the Institute's headquarters in Abuja

By Paul Ukpabio

Alhaji Nura Sani Kangiwa, Director General of the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism NIHOTOUR, has stated that all skilled graduates of the Travel Tourism and Hospitality trades, irrespective of level or cadre, have brighter prospects of being self-employed and employable within the industry circle of the country.

A Cross Section of final year students of the Department of Leisure and Tourism Management

Kangiwa who stated this when final year students of the Department of Leisure and Tourism Management, Federal Polytechnic Idah, Kogi State on educational tour of the Institute in Abuja paid him a courtesy visit, said the versatile nature of the Travel Tourism and Hospitality business has the capacity and potential to create jobs as well as offer job opportunities to cater for the skill gap existing within the industry.

The Director General told the students to consider themselves lucky to have made the right choice of studying Travel Tourism and Hospitality trades, adding that none of them will regret making such a decision as jobs will be readily available upon graduation or better still, they have the choice to be self-employed as business startups.  

He said, as the nation’s apex Travel Tourism and Hospitality Skill Acquisition Centre, NIHOTOUR is willing to collaborate with institutions such as the Federal Polytechnic Idah in the enhancement of quality skill acquisition and training that will add value to the growth and development of the industry and in the over-all interest of the socio-economic benefit of the country.

In his remarks, leader of the students’ delegation and Head of Department of Leisure and Tourism Management, Federal Polytechnic Idah, Dr. Ekundayo I. Mejabi said the Department chose to come to NIHOTOUR on the educational visit out of the many options because they believe the Institute has the potential to add enormous value to their quest for knowledge and aspiration to perform better in skill training and acquisition of all the tourism and hospitality trades.

Dr. Mejabi who expressed the deepest thanks and gratitude of the students for the honour done in according them a befitting, warm and cordial reception said he looks forward to establishing a mutually beneficial relationship between his Department and the Institute particularly in the area of Hands-on-Training and skill acquisition for the students.

Some of the students who commented on the educational visit said they were happy with hospitable reception accorded them as well as the knowledge they gained after been conducted round facilities of the Institute by the Heads of Hospitality and Travel Tourism Departments of the Institute, Alhaji Ibrahim Baba and Mr. Edward Enenta respectively.