Kapi’olani Community College/Ceylon Hotel School
Country:
Sri Lanka
Award Date:
1998
Award Amount:
$48,260.00
Cost Share:
$27,369.00
Other Partners:
Ceylon Hotel School Graduates Association; Ceylon Hotel School and School of Tourism; Prince Resorts Hawaii; Sri Lanka Tourist Board; Chef Guild of Sri Lanka
Kapi’olani Community College and the Ceylon Hotel School worked together to develop the tourism industry in Sri Lanka. The partners conducted a two-day hands-on workshop for Sri Lankan chefs at the Ceylon Hotel School in Kandy, which was followed by several smaller workshops for Sri Lankan student chefs. Executive chefs and students from Sri Lanka traveled to Kapi’olani for three-month internships on Oahu and neighboring islands. Although civil unrest in Sri Lanka made the second year of the partnership a challenge, a further round of workshops and internships proceeded as planned. The partners met their goal of training more than 400 students, chefs, hospitality managers, and employees in hotel operations, tourism and travel, food and beverage management, general management, and culinary arts.