Baisan teams up with U.S. college

One of Bahrain's leading hotel services training schools, the Baisan Institute of Hospitality and Management, yesterday signed an alliance agreement with the Educational Institute (EI) of the American Hotel and Lodging Association with a view to enhance their capabilities and to provide additional tools and resources of innovative training in light of the rapid growth of the tourism sector in the island.

The agreement will provide training programmes to enable the Bahraini youths to acquire proper employments in the sector, said a Baisan spokesman.

The agreement was signed by Baisan's chairman Mohammed Dadabhai and K.V. Simon, regional vice president of the EI for South and West Asia.

EI's programmes are mainly designed for the under-educated and high school drop-outs as large number of these candidates are generally unemployed, due to lack of academic or professional qualifications, Simon noted.

The Baisan spokesman said the agreement comes at the right time as with the announcement of launching of a number of tourism projects in Bahrain such as Durrat Al Bahrain and Amwaj, there will be a great need for trained Bahrainis to work in different areas of the hospitality industry.

In addition to the EI agreement, Baisan is also to invest an estimated BD1.5 million for enhancing and improving its infrastructure facilities to cope with the projected growing requirements of training.