Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday turned the sod signalling the commencement of construction of the Hospitality and Tourism Training Institute (HTTI) in Port Mourant, Corentyne to the tune of US $7.2m as he said that the government is working to create 50,000 jobs within the tourism sector by 2030.
HTTI comes under the Guyana Technical Training College Inc (GTTCI) where last week President Irfaan Ali commissioned phase one – a Facility Simulator – allowing students to have hands on training before heading offshore to work on oil extracting platforms.
GTTCI after fully being constructed will be designed to facilitate oil and gas training (Track 1) funded by ExxonMobil and its partners, the Hospitality and Tourism Institute (Track 2) funded by the government with the Caribbean Development Bank and the Port Mourant Training College (Track 3) which falls under GuySuCo and the Ministry of Agriculture.