Dubai College of Tourism provides innovative virtual internships to its students

Dubai College of Tourism provides innovative virtual internships to its students

Dubai College of Tourism, DCT, is adapting to the changing global realities by providing a range of innovative virtual internships to students who have just finished their academic year.

With the health and safety of students being the key priority of DCT amid current pandemic, the virtual internships were designed to help successful participants of the college's year-long certificate programmes in five core specialisations - Tourism, Events, Hospitality, Retail Business and Culinary Arts - prepare for the next stage of their career without any disruption to their studies or affecting their mentorship and training opportunities.

Each virtual internship offered across the five key disciplines was one month in duration and all interns received live training and mentoring by experts in their chosen fields.

DCT partnered with Hilton in providing the virtual internships to students that completed the certificate courses in Hospitality and Culinary Arts. These internships, which commenced at the beginning of June, underscore DCT's ability to leverage its strong connections and continuous collaboration with stakeholders to help build a highly-skilled workforce for Dubai's tourism industry and other sectors featuring multiple tourism touch points. Dubai Tourism also supported DCT's students by providing remote internships this year to participants of DCT's certificate programmes in