Abu Dhabi eyes education tourism.Byline: Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA ADTA American Dance Therapy Association. ADTA, n.pr See American Dance Therapy Association. ) is launching a pioneering industry development initiative which will see the emirate e·mir·ate n. 1. The office of an emir. 2. The nation or territory ruled by an emir. Noun 1. emirate - the domain controlled by an emir roll out a fully-fledged education tourism strategy. The ADTA's educational tourism strategy will take a three-pronged approach covering overseas school trips (OST n. 1. See Oast. OST n abbr (= Office of Science and Technology) → Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Technologie ), enrichment or personal development programmes (EPP (1) (Enhanced Parallel Port) See IEEE 1284. (2) (Ethernet Packet Processor) A chip from Kalpana, Inc., Santa Clara, CA that doubles speed of Ethernet transmission to 20Mbits/sec. In 1994, Kalpana was acquired by Cisco. ) and corporate training (CT). As part of a OST segment pilot programme, 23 students from Singapore's Raffles Junior College Raffles Junior College (abbr. RJC, or, commonly, RJ) is a prestigious[1] junior college in Singapore offering a two-year course for students. It is located in Bishan beside the campus of Raffles Institution. are on a five-day immersion learning mission to Abu Dhabi. The college is recognised as the Lion City's top school with an eminent alumnae including the island state's founding father Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew (lē kwän y  , yü), 1923–, prime minister of Singapore (1959–90). , former prime minister Goh Chok Tong Goh Chok Tong, 1941–, prime minister of Singapore (1990–2004). After holding government and business positions, he was elected to Singapore's parliament in 1976 and served in the cabinet and People's Action party leadership from 1979. and current Premier Lee
Hsien Loong Lee Hsien Loong, 1952–, prime minister of Singapore (2004–). The eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, Lee was educated at Cambridge and Harvard while also serving (beginning in 1974) in Singapore's armed forces. .
Their programme includes interaction with students from the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. capital's Al Ittihad Model School For Boys and Al Shohub School For Girls, both identified by the Abu Dhabi Education Council as candidates for the forging of friendships between the visiting and national students. "This initiative will both strengthen Abu Dhabi's appeal as a main tourism hub and reinforce its positioning as global aspirational destination," explained Mubarak Al Muhairi, director general, ADTA. "Educational Tourism as a product and visitor segment has the potential of reaping strong returns for Abu Dhabi through increased visitations and awareness as well as competitive positioning," he added. ADTA has drafted a special familiarisation itinerary for the visiting Singaporean school group which is focused on learning, interaction and experiential education. This includes visit to leading Abu Dhabi organisations including Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC TDIC Target Data Input Computer ), the Petroleum Institute, Aldar Properties, Abu Dhabi Authority For Culture & Heritage, the Department of Economic Development, the Centre for Documentation & Research and Masdar -Abu Dhabi's future energy initiative. The group earlier visited an Emirati family in its Al Ain home gaining deep insights into the local culture. "The student exchange is paramount to the success of this programme as the long-term aim is to have overseas students come to Abu Dhabi and their Emirati counterparts going out to see and interact with the world within an educational context," explained Al Muhairi. 'We are working to ensure that the Singaporean students will return home with a better understanding of Emirati culture and heritage as well as of the country's long-term strategy,' he noted. 'The programme also benefits the ADTA's underlining desire of promoting cultural exchange and knowledge, not just for the Singaporean students but also for Emirati students,' he added. ADTA is looking for the pilot to deliver key learnings which will then be used to enhance the programme to target future OST groups from the GCC, Europe and Australia, Al Muhairi said. Pilot ADTA programmes are now to be developed for the EPP segment, which will typically engage people who combine travel with special interests such as sport, art, cookery, language and wellness activities, as well as the CT sector, which will attract leadership groups for short-term executive courses with a mix of classroom learning and site visits. "Education tourism is a market segment that will not only immediately contribute to tourism development, but is a very worthwhile investment for the future with students who have a positive experience being more likely to return in their adult life," he added.- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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