With the aim of transforming and training the operators with the post pandemic needs, the Ministry of Tourism launched an online certificate program for the tourism industry in the country that hosts the Taj Mahal, one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.
The digital programme is called Incredible India Tourist Facilitator/ Incredible India Tourist Guide (IITF/IITG), and will allow participants to become a “professionally certified tourist facilitator who will support tourists by disseminating information, eliciting interest in them about the country and providing experiential tourism”.
India’s Ministry of Tourism, G. Kishan Reddy, stated that “the system will provide basic, advanced (IITF-Heritage and Adventure), spoken language and refresher courses for candidates. Inputs are being received by IITTM from the leading universities for developing the course content. The candidates can pursue these online courses from anywhere and at any time and at their own pace”.
Reddy also announced the launch of the Linguistic Tourist Facilitators (LTF) course, a six-week programme for operators to learn Dutch, German, French, Japanese, Chinese in an attempt to to create trained staff in different foreign languages to facilitate the tourist visiting India.