NIHOTOUR Trains Journalists On Digital Reporting

The National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR) has organised a train-the-trainer programme on hospitality and tourism trade for tourism and hospitality trainers and journalists covering the sector.

Participants were drawn from leading hospitality and tourism schools in South-West Nigeria. They also included journalists writing about tourism from Nigerian print and electronic news organisations.

The director-general of the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR), Nura Sani Kangiwa, said, “The primary mandate of NIHOTOUR is to provide basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of training for personnel in Nigeria’s hospitality and tourism sectors.

‘’As such, this train-the-trainer programme in Lagos is one of the numerous capacity development programmes we annually hold across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones to retrain and skill instructors in tourism and hospitality trades in related schools.”

Kangiwa added that the “training package had three areas of focus, including train-the-trainer on hospitality and tourism trade; educational awareness and training on conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural materials in the South-West zone of Nigeria; and digital content creation for tourism journalists.”

The sessions on train-the-trainer in hospitality and tourism trade addressed emerging management schools of thought and best practices in trainer-trainee relationships, effective mentorship, and sustaining tourism learning ecosystems.