Bachelor of Science Honours in Health Tourism and Hospitality Management

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Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute

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Offer Type

degree

Medium

English

Duration

0 NG

Location

Gampaha

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This Programme

Health and wellness services are ideal to promote in Sri Lanka given the role of tourism services exports as a share of GDP in many countries. Based on data from the survey of departing foreign tourists in 2015, it recommended 10 niche market segments for international tourists. Among them, health and well-being are one of the niche markets identified as a potential segment to promote in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Export Development Board also recognized health and wellness as a key component of the National Export Strategy. Since earlier it identified as a major sector in foreign exchange. In 2014, a new segment called ‘Health’ was introduced for a purpose of visiting Sri Lanka. Since the beginning, the statistics showed the demand is increasing and the majority of the tourists were from Western Europe.

In addition, World Tourism Organization has shown the demand for health and wellness tourism destinations has started to boom and, in the future, there will be more tourist demand for countries offering health and wellness treatments like Sri Lanka. Blending the traditional practices Sri Lankan health and wellness tourism industry has gained its unique identity all over the world.

When promoting the country as a destination of health and wellness tourism, the lack of professionals in the field has been identified as a major gap to be filled. Not only the professionals, but the practices of the health and wellness tourism field also need to be more professional. Identifying this, Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine is offering a Bachelor of Science Honours in Health Tourism and Hospitality Management (HTHM) by the Department of Indigenous Health Sciences, Faculty of Indigenous Health Sciences and Technology, intending to fill this gap. The degree program is aimed to develop the human skills of the health and wellness tourism segment while catering to the other segments of the tourism industry. The graduates of the department will become competent to contribute to the countries’ national and domestic production as health tourism professionals and entrepreneurs.