Sri Vijaya Puram, March 12: The Tourism Department as an initiative to promote, foster professionalism, ensuring safety, and opening up avenues for both employment and self-employment in the vibrant tourism industry is organizing a 12 days Tourist Guide Training Program in the Training Hall of Directorate of Disaster Management, Sri Vijaya Puram from 12/03/2025 to 24/03/2025 including weekends.

The training is being conducted in association with Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM), Bhubaneswar. This program aims to equip the local unemployed youth with the necessary communication skills, historical and cultural knowledge, customer service, safety protocols, and language proficiency to excel in the tourism industry.      This will help in bridging the gap of well-trained tourist guides for the travellers visiting the Islands.

The Resource Persons from IITTM, Dr. Swajan gave an overview of the training program and its objectives. He highlighted on the behavioural component of the training and encouraged the participants to be responsible stakeholders of Andaman tourism. He also urged them to know all about the Isles for value addition to their work in tourism sector.

Dr. Subramanian from IITTM Bhubaneswar urged the participants to draw maximum benefit of the training program and upgrade their skills. 100 local aspirants from different Islands are participating in the training program.