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| Graduates of the school in a group photograph at the graduation ceremony |
Story: Mary Ankrah
THE Ministry of Tourism has urged tourist and hospitality enterprises to provide professional services by training their staff to meet the competition in the global world.
A Deputy Director at the Ghana Tourist Development Company (GTDC), Mr Kwabena Asante-Donkor, who read a speech on behalf of the Minister for Tourism at the graduation ceremony of the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management last Saturday, said the need for training had made the ministry to establish a platform to sort out priorities, whereby a standardised and improved curriculum had been established for all hospitality training institutions Ghana.
He said the act transforming the Ghana Tourist Board into an authority had been passed by Parliament to enhance powers for professional capacity training for the industry.
The Rector of the school, Mr Goyimwole Enukomeko Kpodo, in his address, announced that the school had been given an accreditation to start a degree programme from 2012.
He entreated the graduates to treat everyone equally, whether white or black, in their job wherever they might serve.
A total of 80 students were awarded certificates and diplomas in Hotel and Restaurant Administration which confirms the skills and knowledge they have acquired throughout the courses.
Those who showed exceptional performance in their studies were rewarded for their efforts.
The school trains and equips students with the know-how in the hospitality industry.
Apart from that, the school publishes a bi-monthly newspaper, “Tourism Today”, as a channel of communicating tourism-related issues to promote tourism in Ghana and Africa.
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