The Institute offers consultancy services like capacity building for institutions; feasibility studies for tourism and related projects’ facilities and management upgrading exercise; facility management; information dissemination through research works, sensitization workshops, seminars, conferences and publications. The Institute can go into collaboration and partnership with reputable and recognized tourism and hospitality outfits to achieve tourism and national economy policies and related goals.
The Institute can go into collaboration and partnership with reputable and recognized tourism and hospitality outfits to achieve tourism and national economy policies and related goals.
In addition to its traditional training mandate, the Institute serves as a regulatory body to:
- Regulate/professional practices in all hospitality and tourism Institutions to ensure that their activities are streamlined in accordance with prescribed standards. This is in line with the White Paper Report of the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalization of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies headed by Stephen Oronsaye.
- Operate as the hospitality tourism sector skills council and training provider for the National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) delivery.
Specifically, the mandate of the Institute as enshrined in the forthcoming Act are as follows:
- organizing and facilitating staff development programmes and supervisors in approved educational Institutions and hospitality, travel and tourism industry such as study courses, conferences, lectures, workshops, seminars in the industry and
- provide consultancy services in hospitality, travel and tourism industry and accept national and international reputable consultants to the Institute;
- provide training for trainers in the hospitality, travel and tourism industry;
- establish and maintain a library for research on hospitality, travel and tourism and matters connected with the industry;
- undertake and provide for publication of journals, research papers, books and magazines on hospitality, travel and tourism;
- provide a forum at which representatives of both public and organized private practitioners and proprietors of institutions in the hospitality and tourism industry meet to exchange ideas and information on developments in the hospitality and tourism industry;
- organize seminars and workshops on tourism, hospitality and travel trade practices for the purpose of quality control;
- ensure that all practitioners in the hospitality, travel and tourism sub-sectors are certified by the Institute in order to ensure a common standard;
- establish such faculties, institutes, schools, extra-mural departments and other teaching and research units throughout Nigeria as may be necessary, subject to the approval of the Board, for effective education, training and administrative convenience of the Institute;
- approve programmes or courses of training for institutions or organisations offering courses in hospitality, travel and tourism management or skill in Nigeria;
- assess and grade personnel and quality of services rendered by a practitioner or organization in the hospitality, travel and tourism industry in Nigeria etc
Regular Programmes:
- Post Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management
- Post Graduate Diploma in Tourism Management
- Diploma in Transport and Travel Management
- Diploma in Hospitality Management
- Diploma in Tourism and Recreation
- Diploma in Ecotourism
- Diploma in Travel and Tourism Management (IATA/UFTAA Foundation Level)
- Diploma in Food Hygiene (WAHEB)
- Professional Certificate in Tour Guiding
- Certificate in Hospitality operations
- National Technical Certificate in Catering
- Craft Practice (NABTEB NTC 340)
- Certificate in Cookery and Pastry practice
- Certificate in Food Hygiene (WAHEB)