Orlando, Florida, July 2012—The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) has signed a Global Academic Partner (GAP) agreement with the National Hospitality Institute (NHI) in Muscat, Oman. The school will offer EI’s 12-course Hospitality Management Diploma. 

The National Hospitality Institute offers several training programs to prepared skilled, job-ready employees for the hospitality and tourism industry.  More than 5,000 students have completed programs through the institute’s hotel management department, chef school, food safety academy, travel school, and beauty school. The school’s instructors are former industry professionals with years of experience, who provide first-hand, work-based knowledge to their students.

“The vision of NHI is to be the region’s centre of excellence for training and development; serving our community and changing lives within a professional and caring environment,” stated Robert MacLean, principal. “By working with the Educational Institute, we believe that we can achieve our vision.  NHI has  been at  the  cutting  edge  of  human resource  development  for  the  hospitality  industry in Oman  for over  15  years  and  has  produced  many  hundreds of  graduates. With our  new  relationship with EI, we  believe  that we  can  build  on  this  success  by  developing  the  middle  managers  that the  industry  urgently  needs  in  order  for  it  to  go forward and  develop a  truly  international standard.”

He added, “Oman has  an incredible  future  in tourism  with some  amazing  natural assets, the greatest  one  being  its  people  and  their  ability  to provide  good  service. EI will help us  to harness this  local asset into an international framework  making  the  graduates  of  the  program suitable  for  work anywhere  in  the  world.”

For information on EI’s Global Academic Partner (GAP) program, visit www.ahlei.org/GAP, e-mail [email protected], or call 407-999-8100.

About the Educational Institute
Established in 1953 as a nonprofit educational foundation of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Educational Institute’s mission is to continue being the preferred provider to the lodging industry, hospitality schools, and related hospitality industries by developing and providing quality resources to train, educate, and certify hospitality professionals worldwide. Please visit http://www.ahlei.org