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TheInternational Travel College of New Zealand has won the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre Excellence in Tourism & Hospitality Award at the Westpac Manukau Business Excellence Awards.

ITC has been a premium supplier of full-time and part-time training programmes for the airline, travel and tourism industries for over 10 years. ITC Botany has been based in the Botany shopping mall since 2005, and is now training over 300 students from Manukau and the surrounding area.

The award applications were judged based on seven key criteria of leadership, strategy and planning, customer and market, information and analysis, workforce, processes, results. Applicants supplied facts and data to substantiate their application and to illustrate that they had an excellent management system in place and were continually looking for ways to improve.

The ITC team’s commitment to quality and excellence in training ensured it met the judging criteria. Training is focused on providing students with hands-on experience and valuable industry knowledge and connections. The college’s strong industry relationships contribute to the excellent placement rates of the 2000+ students it has trained in its 13 years of operation. Despite the recession there continues to be ongoing growth in the tourism industry, and a national skill shortage means there is still a big demand for ITC’s travel and tourism graduates.

ITC’s modern classrooms and computer labs provide high quality facilities for its students and its new real-world simulated airport has added to the unique opportunities it offers its students. Specialist training, such as cabin crew direct training and cruise ship training, also provide students with opportunities that are not available elsewhere in New Zealand.

The full Botany team and some head office staff attended the glamorous awards gala dinner that was held at the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre. “It was a great night,” said ITC Director Karen Houston. “And it was wonderful to be acknowledged for our contribution to an industry we are all so passionate about.”