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Mentors and Mentoring

A mentor is someone with more experience or wisdom, sharing and imparting his or her knowledge on to someone younger or less experienced. Read More

Tourism and Hospitality Training

THETA Scope (Soft Touch Trading (Pty) Ltd Accreditation No. 613/P/000089/2007

National Skills Programme - Culture Site Guide NQF Level 2 (Theta Code TGD/CulSGd/2/0028

The primary focus of this skills programme is on tourist guiding, specifically with an emphasis on culture guiding in a limited geographical area (i.e. site guide). Secondary focus is tourist guiding is a subfield of the tourism, travel, and hospitality industry. This program will also explain the natural progression along a career path in guiding, emphasizing the need especially for good communication and interpersonal skills.

National Certificate Programme - Tourism: Guiding (Culture) - NQF Level 4 - Course Code / SAQA ID: 20155

The primary focus of this certificate programme is on tourist guiding, specifically with a regional (provincial) emphasis on culture guiding. The secondary focus is tourist guiding is a subfield of the tourism, travel, and hospitality industry. The program therefore covers the requirements to effectively align with, and operate in this industry. These include, inter alia, the skills to effectively operate in a tourism business enterprise, function in the greater ‘team’; and to enhance functionality with essential business, administrative, financial, communication and interpersonal skills.