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Global univ. meets Seychelles Tourism Academy for joint venture

Published on Jun 10, 2018

By EMN

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[caption id="attachment_188287" align="alignnone" width="550"] A delegation from TGOUN with officials of Seychelles Tourism Academy at Victoria, capital of Seychelles, on June 8.[/caption] Dimapur, June 9 (EMN): On invitation extended by the Seychelles Tourism Academy to The Global Open University Nagaland, a team from the university is on four-day goodwill mission to Seychelles on June 5. The team attended different meetings with the officials in the national level institutions with a view to exchange of information, faculty, students, appropriate technologies as well as services for strengthening ties between India and Seychelles. In a press release received here from on Saturday, mentioned that the Seychelles Tourism Academy under the Government of Seychelles has resolved to send delegates from Seychelles including a team of faculty members dealing with hotel management, wellness and SPA. It also informed that the director of Seychelles Institute of Art and Design would be also visiting Nagaland and observes the theoretical and practical training programmes at TGOUN for the exchange of students on a reciprocal basis with minimum 10 seats to be reserved for the students from Seychelles for undergoing bachelor’s and master’s level courses on tourism, travel, hotel and hospitality management. The vice chancellor and registrar of the university said that new courses like wellness, spa, sustainable tourism, ecological tourism, adventure tourism, and mountain tourism will also be launched soon to give a boost to the academic exchange programme. Highlighting the salient features of Nagaland as well as the university, PRO and Alemjungla Jamir, representing the department of Hotel Management presented a power point presentation regarding the unique method of providing instructions to the students undergoing different short-term and long-term training programmes of the university. Vice chancellor appreciating the provisions of the MoU signed and the proposals initiated by the Seychelles Tourism Academy for enabling them to send their students to Nagaland under the twining programme of the academy and the university to study diploma courses in Seychelles and finally complete the degree courses in Nagaland for optimizing the investment made by the Government of Seychelles. The registrar-cum-director Dr. Imotemsu Ao presented the action plan and the futuristic vision document for a joint venture.