Fourth IITTM campus to open in NOIDA

New Delhi, Jan 16 (UNI) The Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM), an autonomous organisation of the Tourism and Culture Ministry, will get a new campus at NOIDA.

Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni will lay the foundation stone of the new campus at Sector-62, Noida on Thursday.

Five acres of land have been allotted in Noida while the ministry has sanctioned Rs 14.52 crore for the construction of the new campus.

Proposed courses to commence at the NOIDA campus are a two-year Post-Graduate Diploma in Tourism and Leisure Management, Management Development Programmes (MDPs), Capacity Building for Service Provider (CBSP) and other short-term programmes on tourism, travel and allied sectors.

''Owing to the phenomenal growth of the tourism industry and the necessity for grooming world class manpower, the Centre has decided to set up another centre of IITTM in NOIDA,'' a ministry official said.

Established in January 1983, IITTM, which has entered its Silver Jubilee Year, is a multi-campus Institute and presently functioning from its centers at Gwalior, Bhubaneswar and Goa. The NOIDA centre will be the fourth campus of the Institute.

A pioneer in the field of education, training, research and consultancy in the dynamic travel and tourism sector, IITTM has been designated as the international focal point of the Asia-Pacific Educational and Training Institutes in Tourism (APETIT) with the objective of strengthening the quantitative and qualitative need for training, education and research in Asia-Pacific countries.

The institute offers both post-graduate and under-graduate programmes in tourism and travel. It also conducts short-term Management Development Programme (MDP) on various aspects of tourism and travel, apart from sponsored programmes for different states, the Central government and autonomous bodies.

IITTM, through its programmes, has upheld its objective in achieving excellence in developing human resources in tourism and travel and allied sectors.

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