Tourism education in Bangladesh
Aparna Devi
Tourism has become an attractive and one of the fastest growing industry as well as in developing country like as Bangladesh. Tourism education creates a great demand to all specially to the hospitality sector because the employers are looking for smart educated & sophisticated employees for running their business. That’s why from the last few years the popularity of tourism education has been increased in Bangladesh.
A spacious number of educational institutions of Bangladesh especially designed for these programs related to hospitality and tourism management. Some of them are offering diploma or short courses, bachelor degree and masters. All of these programs mainly develops with travel pedagogy. During the program, the pupils or the prospective employees can acquire a wide range of efficient knowledge and skills about tourism and hospitality management.
There is no doubt that a proper academic instruction of tourism and hospitality study is so much beneficial and can be possible to apply any corner of the world.
In Bangladesh, there are some institutions who are offering the diploma and short courses and these are: National Hotel and Tourism Training Institute, ATAB- Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh, BSDI- Bangladesh Skill Development Institute, UCASM- United College of Aviation Science and Management etc.
An integral part of these program is the practical study of this field. The Bachelors and Masters of Tourism management helps a lot to the students which are specially designed for domestic and also the international students of Bangladesh.
Many educational intuitions of Bangladesh have four years of Bachelor degree on Tourism and Hospitality Management. Among them, for the first time in the history of Bangladesh IUBAT- International University of Business Agriculture and Technology started to award Bachelor of Arts in Tourism and Hospitality Management degree back in 2001.
Now-a-days, they’re also doing very well and has many domestic & international students in their institutions. An international standard of THM Lab & theoretical lessons are provided by CTHM- College of Tourism & Hospitality Management at IUBAT.
Some other universities also offering Bachelors in tourism and hospitality management such as University of Dhaka, AIUB- American International University, Prime Asia University, World University of Bangladesh, European University of Bangladesh Agriculture and Technology, Royal University of Dhaka etc.
From these university a student can get enough scholastic and practical skills about the tourism and hospitality management. There is a new hope also for the meritorious students who are interested to get Master degree on tourism management in Bangladesh. The University of Dhaka, provides the degree of MBA in Tourism & Hospitality Management from Faculty of Business Studies (FBS).
The first one is designed for the regular students known as Regular MBA program and another one is Evening MBA who are already engaged in different executive positions wants to increase & update their knowledge in this area.
It is also possible to take Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on tourism management from University of Dhaka. It helps a pupil to get a prestigious job in the competitive market of tourism industry. So, undoubtedly Bangladesh is an excellent choice both for domestic and international students for acquiring their higher study of tourism and hospitality management.
Writer: Lecturer, CTHM
IUBAT- International University of Business Agriculture & Technology
