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Diploma in Tourism Management
Gaborone Commercial College of Higher Studies · Gaborone
About this programme
Covers tourism operations, travel services, hospitality and destination marketing relevant to the Botswana tourism sector. Graduates work in lodges, tour operators, travel agencies and tourism bodies.
Entry requirement
Entry requirement: at least 18 points.
Programme facts
| Qualification | Diploma |
| Institution | Gaborone Commercial College of Higher Studies |
| Faculty / school | Business |
| Duration | 3 years |
| Location | Gaborone |
| Minimum points | 18 |
| Accreditation | BQA Accredited |
| Funding / sponsorship | Government Sponsorship Available as a Loan (subject to latest sponsorship lists) |
| Demand outlook | HRDC forecasts about 1,446 openings a year in TOURISM & HOSPITALITY (2025). 5,248 graduates in this field were recorded unemployed at 2024Q1, which at that rate is about 3.6 years of hiring to absorb the people already waiting — ACRON’s calculation from two HRDC figures, not an HRDC finding, and it counts only the existing pool. Graduates per opening: 0.59. ISCED "Services" is broader than tourism and hospitality alone, so this ratio is indicative only. These openings are a forecast of need, not posts that are currently being filled. In July 2026 the Directorate of Public Service Management told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee that government "currently do not have the financial capacity to create new vacancies", and that more than 8,000 students now graduate each year while the economy is no longer creating jobs at the same pace. Government policy reserves 80% of entry-level vacancies for new graduates and is achieving about 70%. (Directorate of Public Service Management, evidence to the 62nd sitting of the Public Accounts Committee, reported by Mmegi (July 2026).) This describes the whole field, not this programme alone, and it is not a government waiting list — Botswana publishes no such figure. Source: HRDC Priority Skills Report, March 2025, Table 31 p.41 and Appendix 3 pp.66-76; HRDC Tertiary Education Statistics Report 2024, Table 22. |
Careers this programme leads to
Tourism Officer Travel Consultant Tour Operator Lodge Manager Reservations Officer Tour Guide Hospitality Supervisor Destination Marketing Officer Events Coordinator Guest Relations Officer
Source
Published by https://gcchs.ac.bw/GCCHS_Programme.pdf.
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