Singapore’s Republic Polytechnic and four tourism institutions under the purview of Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism last week launched a 36-month Hospitality and Tourism Capability Development Programme in Indonesia.
The training programme aims to enhance teaching and learning approaches as well as the sharing of best practices and strategies on tripartite collaborations among government, private institutions and industry partners in Indonesia’s hospitality and tourism sector.
As part of the programme, Republic Polytechnic’s Problem-based Learning pedagogy will be shared with the participants to support curriculum delivery of hospitality and tourism courses.
Other training components include social media and branding, quality and productivity management.
All four of Indonesia’s national tourism institutions will work together with Republic Polytechnic in addressing location-specific issues in Bandung, Makassar, Medan and Bali. Republic Polytechnic will also share insights on enhancing the creative and entrepreneurial workforce in the hospitality and tourism sector.
The programme is also supported by Singapore-based non-profit Temasek Foundation International, which has committed a grant of S$494,500 (US$355,800) towards this initiative, and co-funded by the Ministry of Tourism, Indonesia.
