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A US$15million 4-star hotel and $1.5million training institute will soon be set up in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda to strengthen its tourism industry.

The director general of the Canadian Consortium for development in the tourist and hotel sector in Africa (CCDTHA) Mr. Jacques Roy said that the multi-million dollar project will be completed in two phases.

The US$1.5million tourism and hotel training school will be set up fist followed by the $15million 4-star hotel facility that will provide accommodation to Rwanda’s visitors and travelers. The hotel training school will facilitate 600 students with a capacity of 200 in each scholar year, and issuing out degrees to successful students.

The 4-star hotel to be built will not only advance the number of hotel beds in Rwanda but will proceed to be the hands on and practical training ground for a new breed of experts from the institution that are the core of the tourism and hotel sector.

Mr. Jacques Roy said that CCDTHA is in partnership with Merici College that will be exclusively in charge of the training in the tourism and hotel training school. The first group of students is to be admitted come August 2007.

The Rwanda Investment and Export Promotion Agency (RIEPA) office in Montreal , Canada helped to make the investment bonding between the Canadians and Rwandan tourism community possible.

The investment communities involved have been credited for taking part in the development of hotels in Rwanda and the Rwanda Tourism Sector.