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Soni to lay foundation of IITM's Noida campus

     New Delhi: Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni will lay the foundation stone of the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management's (IITTM) new campus in Noida on Thursday. In view of the phenomenal growth of the tourism industry and a necessity created thereby for grooming world class manpower, the Government has allotted a land of five acres for another center of IITTM at Delhi/NCR.

    The Tourism Ministry has sanctioned Rs 14.52 crores for the construction of the campus, at Sector-62, which will be the fourth of the IITM. The institute has its centers in Gwalior, Bhubaneswar and Goa. The institute will offer two year post-graduate diploma in 'Tourism and Leisure Management', besides management development programmes (MDPs), capacity building for service provider (CBSP) and other short term courses. The IITTM is an autonomous organisation established on January 18, 1983. The institute is a pioneer in the field of education, training, research and consultancy in the highly dynamic travel and tourism sector. The institute has been designated as the International focal point of the Asia Pacific Educational and Training Institutes in Tourism (APETIT) with an objective of strengthening the quantitative and qualitative need for training, education and research in Asia-Pacific countries.
-Jan 16,  2007

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