By | Rachel Kirema. Rachel is a Lecturer Hospitality Management at Kenya Utalii College and Tourism Researcher at Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre ( GTRCMC-EA)
The Hospitality and Tourism jobs are known to be highly dynamic and equally volatile, most of which are affected by crisis like Covid-19 among other crisis. In Kenya a number of hospitality and tourism institutions offer courses that lead to possible employment opportunities, hence the need to stabilize themselves through forging ties with other Institutions offering similar courses both nationally and internationally.
These courses require diverse skills that that can have both national and international accreditation and acceptance hence the need to creating strong long lasting ties between institutions offering hospitality and tourism courses. Students gain from exposure to that lead them to a wider perspective towards their career choices in the industry. The collaborations can offer integrated mobility programs that enable the students to make selective decisions of how and where their studies will take place, be it in their home universities or universities abroad. This mobility offers them concrete platform academically to address the challenges of inbreeding that comes with closed mindedness when it comes to career growth and self-employment options amidst crisis that come with job losses.
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The mother University in collaboration with the exchange university can easily keep track of their students through duo supervision where a supervisor is selected from each university to follow up on the progress of the student, this enables ease in supervision and possible scholarship opportunity for the student. At the end of it all the institutions at hand gain from international benchmarking.
How do such collaborations benefit the industry you may ask? Any hybrid element comes out as a stronger version of the original, even in car assembling chances are the mixed elements create efficiency and customers have a wider selection and variety. The performance of the of the industry labor market is enhanced and diversified in such a way that unemployment crisis is eliminated, strong ties are forged and consequently sustainable capacity building opportunities emerge.
Article written by Rachel Kirema. Rachel is a Lecturer Hospitality Management at Kenya Utalii College and Tourism Researcher at Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre ( GTRCMC-EA)
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