Broaden your career prospects as a cruise purser or hotel front office. Combine your career training.

The Hospitality Industry continues to experience vast growth and now ranks as the world's largest revenue industry and largest employer. According to Pannell Kerr Forster, advisors to Canada's tourism & hospitality industry, the market and financial prospects for the hotel industry in Canada have never been better.

The cruising sector too has been growing rapidly in the past years. Cruising is the vacation of choice for many holiday goers because of the fun, entertainment, service, and worldwide travel. The Vancouver Port Corporation reports that every year around one million revenue passengers onboard more than 300 major international cruise sailings go through Vancouver's cruise ship facilities.

When you combine these two booming sectors, what you get is a world of opportunities from front desk personnel, youth services, entertainers, administrative staff, and more. Recognizing the potential and demands in this niche, TTI developed a unique program, HOLAS (Hospitality on Land and Sea) to provide graduates with the skills to pursue a career in hospitality, whether on land or sea. This offers them the flexibility to ladder between areas of the sector without having to re-train, as the skills learned are transferable.

HOLAS was designed to produce highly valued and sought after hospitality employees, so that they may excel and advance in their career. At the end of this program, students will be able to perform the skills required of front office employees or a purser in areas of passenger services, shore excursions, crew administration, passenger logistics and hotel clerical duties. They will have skills in Front Office operations, an appreciation of shipboard life, knowledge of appropriate shipboard behavior, understanding of cultural diversity, and effective communication skills.