By Akram Medhat
The Egyptian Tourism Federation announced that a new training program is scheduled to start within the next two weeks at the Safe Driving Center to raise the efficiency of drivers on the roads, especially transport drivers, in addition to training programs for tourist vehicle drivers to qualify them practically and technically according to the latest international standards, in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism.
In a related context, Karim El-Minabawy, a member of the federation's board, said training programs are being carried out in cooperation with the European Union's TVET project, with a budget of EUR 1.6 million, to train graduates of hotel schools and institutes so that they keep pace with the requirements of the tourism labor market, in addition to training tourism workers and those who deal with tourists.
El-Minabawy revealed that a number of cooperation protocols will be signed with the ministries of Interior, represented by the Tourism Police, Antiquities and Transport, to train those who deal with tourists and raise their tourism and security awareness. The program also includes training 600 owners of small businesses working in tourism.
He added that there is another agreement with the European Union, with a budget of EUR 15 million, to raise the efficiency of the tourism sector as a whole, stressing that the training system at the Egyptian Tourism Federation is being developed and organized on a larger scale than before, in a way that allows the tourism sector to benefit as much as possible and keep pace with global changes and developments in tourism work.
