IFT organizes Cambodian tourism program

The Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) has organized a week-long professional training program for Cambodian heritage and preservation officials, which concludes today.
IFT’s first-ever program for Cambodian tourism studies ran from June 14 to yesterday. The program marks the first instance of bilateral cooperation after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the MSAR government and the Ministry of Tourism of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Officials from APSARA National Authority – the management body responsible for protecting the archeological park of Angkor – participated in the program alongside heritage tour guides from Cambodia.
A total of four tourism-related officials and 20 heritage tour guides participated in the program, which was titled “Capacity Building of Tour Guides for International Visitors at Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia.”
The seven-day program – which seeks to strengthen the professional capacity of heritage tour guides – featured lectures, workshops and visits to the World Heritage Sites of the Historic Center of Macau.
The MSAR government and the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism signed a Memorandum of Understanding on May 30 to cooperate in the promotion of sustainable tourism development by enhancing human capital and establishing training and collaboration exchanges between both territories.
Another new organization named the “Global Center of Tourism Education and Training,” soon to be set up by the IFT, will organize these training and education projects in collaboration with the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The collaboration will help both territories to achieve objectives set out in the memorandum, according to a statement from IFT.