DIPLOMA IN TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT
DURATION: 4 Semesters
OBJECTIVE:
This course is designed to equip and develop students with the prerequisite conceptual and technical skills in planning and managing small and medium size travel and transport operations.
COURSE STRUCTURE:
Basically a skill and conceptual acquisition, this course runs for two academic sessions. The first year teaches general knowledge required for the two areas or specialization that the course embraces and these have management and planning options.
During the second year, the students are required to register for additional six courses to the core courses chosen from their areas of specialization. Also, they will be expected to observe three months of internship in the tourism industry and related organizations.
ENTRY REQUIREMENT
- 1. Professional certificate in Tourism Management from NIHOTOUR or any Management related course passed at lower credit from a recognized institute.
- 2. GCE/SSCE/NECO with four credits which must include passes in English and Mathematics at not more than two sittings.
- 3. Holders of professional qualifications in related discipline such as IATA/UFTAA Certificate, Advanced Airfare & Ticketing Course etc.
COURSE OUTLINE
| Transport function and system |
| Travel demand |
| Travel & transport Admin., Policy/Planning/legislation |
| Hospitality demand |
| Business Management and law |
| Research Methodology |
| Travel & transport Law, insurance and logistics |
| Travel facilitation and care services |
| Transport economics |
| Transport policy analysis |
| Health & safety |
| Strategic mgt & corporate planning |
| e- transport & ICT App |
| GIS in transport |
| Environment and ecology |
| Financial accounting & Management |
| Citizenship education |
| Use of English |
| Air, land and marine transport ops |
| Human Org Behaviour & Resource Mgt |
| Marketing principles |
| Accommodation Management |
| Entrepreneurial studies |
| Research Methodology |
| Communication skills |
| Industrial relations |
| seminar |
| Transport logistic mgt |
| Travel/transport mgt project |
| Research method |
| Industrial Tours/case studies |
| Entrepreneurial Project |
- – Trainees go on industrial attachment upon completion of 2nd semester for 12 weeks before commencement of fourth semester. The trainees have a work place log book to enter daily work activity engaged upon and supervised by both work place and NIHOTOUR Supervisor.
- – Emphasis on practical exercises during lecture sessions is given top priority.
- – Projects to be written are entrepreneurial and or administrative in nature.
