Dunhill Tourism Course: Tourism Trails with Smart Media Training Responding To Opportunities on The Waterford Greenway
Dunhill Multi-Education Centre, in conjunction with Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board are offering training in Tourism Trails with Smart Media. The full time course is designed to provide training to meet the demands of the tourism, hospitality, sport and recreation enterprises that support the Waterford trails network, particularly the Waterford Greenway.
The Tourism Trails with Smart Media students achieve QQI Level 5 awards in tourism, sport & recreation and entrepreneurial skills. The participants will also receive training in digital media technology with a view to developing skills and competence in the use of digital technologies such as action cameras and drones to produce web content that can be used through social media to promote Waterford’s trails, tourism and heritage attractions. The modules offered culminate in a QQI Level 5 Major Award in Tourism with Business.
Now in its fifth year, the Tourism Trails Programme has seen graduates progress to employment in the local tourism industry, business start-up or further and higher education. The programme has seen participants gain confidence in their ability as learners,
achieve CAO points and progress to
diploma and degree course in WIT, CIT and UCC in recent years.
Nationally the development of trails and greenways are inspiring a whole new wave of casual cyclists and trail walkers. The steady growth in popularity of Waterford’s stunning 46km greenway amongst locals and visitors alike is testament to this. While user figures have yet to be published, the signs of a considerable boost to Waterford’s tourism industry are certainly promising with new tourism businesses thriving and old favourites revived and growing all along the route between Waterford City and Dungarvan. In addition to providing a top class amenity for local people to get out and experience Waterford’s countryside, the Waterford Greenway is already being promoted as a major addition to the tourism offering of Ireland’s Ancient East. This major piece of tourism infrastructure will also bring opportunities for the development business along a network of trails linking nearby towns to the greenway and bringing visitors from the greenway to other tourism amenities such as the Copper Coast and Comeragh Mountains.
For further details contact Dunhill Multi-Education Centre on 051-396934, full programme information available on www.dunhilleducation.com.
Community Training
Local Training Initiative providing Training to Support
Local Tourism.