Institute rolls out Sustainable Tourism Entrepreneurship Programme for Youths, Women 

 The project titled Sustainable Tourism Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) is billed to launch in Lagos on Monday 28, November, 2022.

The Sustainable Tourism Entrepreneurship Program (STEP) is an innovative training and empowerment program  for Tourism and Hospitality small business start-ups and sustainable operations of small businesses in rural tourist host communities and major cities across Nigeria’s six-geopolitical zones where NIHOTOUR already has campuses and training centres.

 STEP program is novel and designed to train, equip, and mentor trainees on hands-on skills and entrepreneurial capabilities for successful operation of small businesses (start-ups) in the Tourism industry value-chain such as Cookery, Pastry, Confectionery, Tour Operation, Tour Guiding, and Travel Agency – flight ticketing and hotel reservations.

The project under the leadership of NihotourDirector General, Nura Sani Kangiwa, is aimed at systematically growing Nigeria’s Tourism economy at different tourist destinations, especially targeting the growth of income and savings of the local residents, growth in employment opportunities, significantly increase number of self-employment and, over time, the development of tourism sites and businesses.

The STEP project is targeted at young girls and women who are single, married or widowed, vulnerable youths who are either orphans, abandoned or school drop-outs, physically challenged persons, internally displaced persons, and unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions, as well as, skilled youths with post primary school education in Nigeria.

The training will be delivered free of charge to participants, and graduates of the programme will be given starter-packs to immediately start their own business.