THE TOURISM MANAGEMENT CLUBBy The President ; Sasha Raymond Munyanyi

WHAT IS THE TOURISM MANAGEMENT CLUB

• This is a Tourism & Hospitality oriented club @ C.U.T that aims to enhance the learning experience for members who share a common interest. This is done by facilitating active participation in weekly meetings, fundraising, community service, lecture events, social get-togethers, and field trips. The club’s activities will be designed specifically to stimulate interest in local tourist attractions and promote geo -tourism initiatives. The organization also intends to provide members with opportunities for networking with the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism, and potential employers, as well as to forge connections between members themselves.

WHAT REALLY IS THE PROBLEM

• It`s been discovered, that most graduates coming out of college, don`t have the relevant on-job, hands-on approach in terms of techniques, skills, experience among others. It is very sad to note that our former brothers and sisters who have graduated, mostly with first class degrees are finding it difficult to get jobs in the industry. The Hospitality & Tourism employers, are opting to employ less qualified personnel on various job prospects because attaches and fresh graduates don’t have the capacity to perform, and generally they lack that sort of zeal and enthusiasm if they are given the chance to perform, interviews are done, and a student or graduate passes, but the real problem is on the job field, were one fails to apply what he has learnt in college in job practice.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A VARSITY GRAD & A POLY BOY

• University Student • Polytechnic Student

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OUR CLUBS PURPOSE

Enhance learning experience for members who share an interest in travel and tourism by facilitating active participation in weekly meetings, fundraising, community service, lecture events, social get-togethers, and field trips. The club’s activities will be designed specifically to stimulate interest in local tourist attractions and promote geo -tourism initiatives.

The organization also intends to provide members with opportunities for networking with the faculty of Tourism & Hospitality, and potential employers, as well as to venture in business connectivity.

WHAT IS OUR VISION AS THE TOURISM MANAGEMENT CLUB

• The Tourism Management Club aims to provide its members with the opportunity to gain hands- on event planning experience, with the aid of the Universities highly qualified staff. The organization intends to hold events ranging from educational lectures and volunteer work to field trips and social gatherings.

OUR OBJECTIVES ARE DISTINCT

Strive to create and enable conditions for students to participate in tours, conferences, meetings, festivals and training courses held across the country.

Acquainting students with heritage sites by, touring the national, historical and cultural sites (also hotels & other affiliates) of the country, improving tourism knowledge, providing easy access to services provided by the club and encouraging students to use tourism facilities of the country throughout the year.

Establishing a community within the society, and as part of this, hold fundraising events for charity among others, and Tourism Concerts on Campus (Probably add on Miss Tourism C.U.T),Social events proposed to be included are clean up campaigns (For example, commemorating the World Tourism Day, 27th September), evenings out and residential trips locally and/ or abroad.

Invitation of guest speakers who work in or conduct research in the tourism industry, as well as careers events attended by potential employers, hotel site visits, field researches (eco-tourism, sustainable tourism, impact of tourism on host destinations, For example in Kariba)

WHAT IS T.M.CS IMPACT TO THE COMMUNITY

• Not only create future brightfull Travel, Tourism and Hospitality practitioners, but establish a prospect of empowering young students so as to equip them on leadership criterion.

• To help and aid the students to be able to apply Travel, Tourism and Hospitality knowledge to the communities they come from and to the corporate world at large.

• To foster an entrepreneurial spirit within the various students we will be working with.

• To plough back to the community and industry, fully equipped attachees and graduates that possess and have full equitable requirements, theoretically and also in a more hands-on-approach .

Sasha Raymond