The Ministry of Culture and Tourism signed protocols with 3 more partner hotels where tourism vocational high school students will continue their training...

Under the "Vocational Education Development Cooperation Protocol" that the Ministry signed with the Ministry of National Education in order to train the qualified personnel needed by the tourism sector, the number of hotels with which protocols have been signed has reached 5.

The number of hotels at which the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, by signing protocols, offers on-the-job training to tourism vocational high school students has risen to 5.

The cooperation protocol signed on September 25, 2018 by Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy and Minister of National Education Ziya Selçuk for the purpose of "training the qualified personnel needed by the tourism sector" has provided students with the opportunity to receive training in a real service and production environment at tourism businesses.

Accordingly, students studying in the fields of "accommodation and travel," "food and beverage" and "entertainment" services will receive hands-on training at contracted partner hotels between April and October.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism continues to sign protocols with hotels that will partner with tourism vocational high schools in order to put the project into practice.

Under the program, which began with 2 hotels in October, protocols were signed with 3 more hotels in Antalya in the previous weeks.

The hotels are required to meet certain criteria, ranging from the lodgings where students and teachers will stay to the halls where training will be provided. It is envisaged that the number of partner hotels will reach 20 in the first phase.

A Strategic Step for a Qualified Workforce

Okan İbiş, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's General Director of Research and Education, stated that the Ministry has put into practice a valuable initiative linked to vocational high schools for the training of a qualified workforce for the tourism sector.

Emphasizing that the steps taken are of strategic importance for a qualified workforce, İbiş said that this cooperation between the businesses supporting the project and the schools that will train the personnel needed by the sector will contribute not only to the education and tourism sectors but also to Türkiye.

İbiş said: "Education is the most important factor shaping human life, and investment in education will be instrumental in designing a better future."

Meanwhile, Minister of Culture and Tourism Ersoy hosted Minister of National Education Ziya Selçuk at the Ministry the day before.

Minister Ersoy shared photographs of the meeting, which was also attended by bureaucrats from both Ministries, on his Instagram and Twitter accounts with the note: "The exemplary cooperation we launched with the aim of restructuring tourism vocational high schools according to the requirements of the age, the needs of the sector and the sustainable employment of young people is continuing successfully."