Executive Development Institute for Tourism June 6 through June 17, 2016
Co-sponsored by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), EDIT provides an intensive twelve day program to serve ongoing educational needs of executives and professionals in both private and public sectors of international tourism organizations. Since 1979, participants have included government officials, hotel executives, educators, tour operators, airline executives and other travel industry professionals from over 50 countries.
For nearly four decades, the Executive Development Institute for Tourism (EDIT) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has provided professionals from the travel and tourism public and private sectors with the knowledge and skills to work effectively in this environment of change and innovation. The flagship program at the School of Travel Industry Management builds leadership proficiency and managerial skills for rising executives, heads of businesses and leaders of governmental agencies from public and private sectors.
The twelve day institute offers a rigorous and interactive curriculum. The program prepares leaders to develop strategic approaches to international destination marketing, product development, and international tourism policy. Hawai‘i is the ideal learning environment within a living laboratory due to decades of planning and managing tourism growth.