Details About The Tourism Management Club at Chinhoyi University of Technology, Club background, objectives among others. Submitted by TMC President ; Sasha Raymond Munyanyi

1. THE TOURISM
MANAGEMENT CLUB
By The President ; Sasha Raymond Munyanyi

3. • This is a Tourism & Hospitality oriented club @ C.U.T that aims to enhance the
learning experience for members who share a common interest. This is done by
facilitating active participation in weekly meetings, fundraising, community service,
lecture events, social get-togethers, and field trips. The club’s activities will be
designed specifically to stimulate interest in local tourist attractions and promote geo
-tourism initiatives. The organization also intends to provide members with
opportunities for networking with the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism, and potential
employers, as well as to forge connections between members themselves.

4. • It`s been discovered, that most graduates coming out of college, don`t have the
relevant on-job, hands-on approach in terms of techniques, skills, experience among
others. It is very sad to note that our former brothers and sisters who have graduated,
mostly with first class degrees are finding it difficult to get jobs in the industry. The
Hospitality & Tourism employers, are opting to employ less qualified personnel on
various job prospects because attaches and fresh graduates don’t have the capacity to
perform, and generally they lack that sort of zeal and enthusiasm if they are given the
chance to perform, interviews are done, and a student or graduate passes, but the real
problem is on the job field, were one fails to apply what he has learnt in college in job
practice.

5. • University Student
• Polytechnic Student
• 22585l

6. OUR CLUBS PURPOSE
 Enhance learning experience for members who share an interest in travel
and tourism by facilitating active participation in weekly meetings,
fundraising, community service, lecture events, social get-togethers, and
field trips. The club’s activities will be designed specifically to stimulate
interest in local tourist attractions and promote geo -tourism initiatives.
 The organization also intends to provide members with opportunities for
networking with the faculty of Tourism & Hospitality, and potential
employers, as well as to venture in business connectivity.

7. WHAT IS OUR VISION AS THE TOURISM
MANAGEMENT CLUB
• The Tourism Management Club aims to provide its members with
the opportunity to gain hands- on event planning experience,
with the aid of the Universities highly qualified staff. The
organization intends to hold events ranging from educational
lectures and volunteer work to field trips and social gatherings.

8. OUR OBJECTIVES ARE DISTINCT
 Strive to create and enable conditions for students to participate in tours, conferences, meetings,
festivals and training courses held across the country.
Acquainting students with heritage sites by, touring the national, historical and cultural sites (also hotels
& other affiliates) of the country, improving tourism knowledge, providing easy access to services
provided by the club and encouraging students to use tourism facilities of the country throughout the
year.
Establishing a community within the society, and as part of this, hold fundraising events for charity
among others, and Tourism Concerts on Campus (Probably add on Miss Tourism C.U.T),Social events
proposed to be included are clean up campaigns (For example, commemorating the World Tourism
Day, 27th September), evenings out and residential trips locally and/ or abroad.
Invitation of guest speakers who work in or conduct research in the tourism industry, as well as careers
events attended by potential employers, hotel site visits, field researches (eco-tourism, sustainable
tourism, impact of tourism on host destinations, For example in Kariba)

9. WHAT IS T.M.CS IMPACT TO THE
COMMUNITY
• Not only create future brightfull Travel, Tourism and Hospitality practitioners, but
establish a prospect of empowering young students so as to equip them on leadership
criterion.
• To help and aid the students to be able to apply Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
knowledge to the communities they come from and to the corporate world at large.
• To foster an entrepreneurial spirit within the various students we will be working with.
• To plough back to the community and industry, fully equipped attachees and graduates
that possess and have full equitable requirements, theoretically and also in a more
hands-on-approach .