GATE – Global Academy of Tourism & Hospitality Education organized 3 days workshop on “Teaching yesterday, today and tomorrow” covering contemporary issues such as how to meet the expectation of hospitality employers in today’s competitive job market and how to equip the hospitality educators and trainers to cope with teaching requirements and modern methodology for tomorrow. The program was designed and lead by a senior expert Mr. Giuseppe Luizzi Bazzani from Swiss Contact (Switzerland). Mr. Bazzani has over four decades of global expertise in hospitality operation and education. Mr. Bazzani has been a guest lecture in Cornell University, IMI – Luzern and successfully consulted dozens of mega hotel projects and hotel school projects around the world.




Hon’l Minister of Labor & Transportation Mr. Lekh Raj Bhatta was invited as a chief guest to handover the certificate to all the graduates who were the hospitality educators and GATE faculty members. Speaking at the function, Minister Bhatta said “Time has now come to bring about a change in everything we do, unless and until we update ourselves, we can not cope with the underlying challenges that tomorrow has to offer us” Minister Bhatta added “Going abroad and work for others is not the only and attractive option for Nepalese people, we need to change this thinking and our people must think for ourselves, create jobs within the country, then only Nepal can become free and independent in a real term”. Youth Self Employment program was designed by the present Nepalese government to address the need and the success of this proposed program can liberate our youth and encourage them to become entrepreneurial contributing greatly to our nation that has got enormous potential and resources which must be used efficiently for the well-being of the Nepalese people.



Nepal’s first tourism training center was established back in 1972, but now there are already 7 private hotel management Colleges in Nepal, catering over 500 Nepalese students every year. However, the number of big hotels could not increase in the same ratio therefore it is quite obvious that the Nepalese hotel management graduates see their future career in abroad than in Nepal. Speaking at the ceremony Founder and CEO of GATE College Mr. Khem Raj Lakai said “We must analyze the underlying challenges and be prepared to meet the expectations of national and international job providers especially when global recession is hitting harder sparing no one and Nepal can not be an exception.” Mr. Lakai added that Nepal has long been recognized as one of the popular travel destinations because of the Himalayas, and rich culture all inherited by our forefather but in order to win the heart of modern tourists, world-class quality service is the most and in order to provide quality service, we have to upgrade our education and training system.



GATE College is affiliated with world-famous Swiss School, SSTH-Swiss School of Tourism & Hospitality which has successful track record of over 4 decades of leadership in the hospitality education. The hospitality industry aspire leaders with right focus, serving heart, drive and wisdom. GATE aims to add to these characteristics by providing a strong skill set and state-of-the art knowledge to ensure place in the world’s fastest growing and largest industry. The workshop held at GATE is believed to be first of its kind in Nepalese hospitality education sector and more of such activities should be held covering all hospitality colleges in Nepal.

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