Projekte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Projektziel

In accordance with Bhutanese development priorities in the Ninth and Tenth Five Year Plan the tourism sector will be strenghtened to provide job opportunities to the increasingly well educated youth, and to increase high-quality - low-impact tourism and thereby foreign revenues.

A central strategic investment in this regard will be the Hotel & Tourism Management and Training Institute (HTMTI) to be implemented under this project. The HTMTI will serve as the first Bhutanese training institute in the tourism sector. Until today, training in this sector has only been available abroad.

While the Royal Government of Bhutan will take up the substantial part of the construction costs, Austria will contribute state-of-the-art technical equipment for training Kitchen, Laundry, IT-rooms, Training Hotel and integrate high quality energy efficient management and energy saving components for heating, hot water and waste water management, ventilation for restaurant and kitchen areas, heavy duty fittings and plumbing in wet rooms, insulation, life safety equipment and wherever necessary facilities for the disabled.

Upon completion the institution will provide a high quality vocational 2 years training programme in Hotel and Tourism Management . The project will also be instrumental in providing comprehensive training courses to the unskilled working force already deployed in the sector.

A complementary project will provide the overall framework for the joint Austrian-Bhutanese effort to develop curricula for all fields of instruction at HTMTI.

Since the signing of the Project Document in March 2005, costs of the project have increased substantially. Both ADA and the Royal Government of Bhutan have agreed to the additional costs of contribution and the cost sharing according to the Amendment to the Project Document . The Amendment to the Project Document shall be an integral part of the Project Document dated March 28, 2005.