The Ministry of Education has identified three areas it plans to focus on this year as it undertakes to train a number of persons in the skills that would meet needs in the tourism sector.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release the areas are entrepreneurship, hospitality skills development and Information Communication Technology (ICT), with the latter already being implemented through the provision of computers, construction of IT labs and training teachers in ICT.
Stakeholders from within the education and tourism sectors met recently to discuss the possibilities of up-grading the Carnegie School of Home Economics into a hospitality institute. Also, Guyana, through the