Thomas Cook India's Centre of Learning felicitates 270 students

NEW DELHI: Thomas Cook India's education and training vertical, Centre of Learning, felicitated 270 students of the 2014-15 batch at its fourth Convocation Ceremony held at the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai.

The Centre of Learning Convocation Ceremony honoured its students who had completed the Travel Professional Program - a Post Graduate Course in Travel & Tourism Management, the Certificate Course in World Tour Management and the IATA Certificate Course in Travel & Tourism Management. Scholarship certificates and special prizes were awarded to top performers of Centre of Learning's Travel Professional Program - a Post Graduate course in Travel & Tourism Management.

Thomas Cook India's Centre of Learning has played a pioneering role in the education and training domain, with a focus on building a highly skilled resource human resource pool for the travel and tourism industry.

Centre of Learning's vision sees strong synergy with The Skill India Mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi which in turn seeks to impart vocational skills to 24 lakh workers this year and to Rs 40.2 crore people by 2022; an initiative that is expected to see profound changes in the education and training field in India.

Given India's demographics, at the company's Centre of Learning, they aspire to create a skill-based high quality talent pool.

"Training programs like ours are developed in active consultation with industry experts with an active involvement of the tourism boards, qualified faculty and guest speakers from the industry," said Mona Cheriyan, COO & Head – Human Resources, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.