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Niche Tourism Academy

Niche Tourism Insights

Indian Tourism Market is predominantly an unorganized sector.
Even the students pursuing degree courses from recognized Universities and institutions lack the basic knowledge on ‘Package Tour’.
90% tourism professionals lack the gross-root level knowledge of tourism.
Tourism colleges and institutions are yet to provide any specialized curriculum on “Package Tour’.
Courses on Air Ticketing, Hotels and Hospitality are widely available but authentic ‘Package Tour’ courses are still not available in the world.
Top online companies are spearheaded by leaders who do not come from travel and tourism background.
Tourism companies are driven by leaders without intrinsic understanding of the industry and therefore maximum travel businesses are standing on very weak foundations.
Well-integrated online customization of package tour portals can showcase worldwide products in a single platform in an organized way.
Talents with sound product knowledge in this business can bridge the gap in the online tourism industry.
Absence of innovative tourism in the global tourism market owing to lack of awareness is creating bottlenecks for successful business.
Most of the holiday companies do not want their personnel to learn the trade-secrets because they fear that after learning them they might start their own initiative.
Similarly B2B agents prevent the learning of B2C agents to prevent them from starting an independent initiative.
Most of the tourism professionals do not join the domain with specialized tourism knowledge which in turn is affecting the overall efficiency of the tourism industry.
Every year innumerable travel companies commence and close down owing to lack of awareness, knowledge, initiative and industry-oriented skill.

Why Niche Tourism Academy

Although the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019 ranked India 34th out of 140 countries, the rate of positive feedback by Indian tourists continues to be below 20% since many years. Mr. Asad Siddiqui, the Founder and Faculty Head of Niche Tourism Academy designed a highly advanced, industry-based online curriculum to equip new-age tourism experts, small and medium entrepreneurs with cutting-edge strategic insights and competencies to leverage this gap of 80% dissatisfied customers in to their career advantage. Niche Tourism Academy (NTA), world’s pioneering Practical Digital Course on Package Tours aspires to bring innovation in tourism products and services by creating a talented pool of professionals with a unique blend of technology and human expertise.

There is not a single curriculum offered by any universities and colleges across the world that promises such a comprehensive 360 degree and skill-based teaching-learning approach on “Online Package Tours”. Today, the technology is not able to work wonders for tourism businesses because it is guiding the product. Instead, technology needs to be steered by talents with sound product knowledge and robust subject foundation. Niche Tourism Academy aspires to blend the best of both worlds, a perfect marriage between human intelligence and technology to coevolve in this industry.Innovative courses designed by NTA can help enthusiastic tourism professionals to develop products that can cater to the unique tastes and preferences of modern travellers

Our Story

Travel is the only way to break boundaries, push limits to explore our inner joy. Travel and tourism is a very fascinating career choice where the professionals get the opportunity to serve each and every traveller in his quest of finding their dream destination and experience a unique dimension of their lives. Niche Tourism Academy aspires to build futuristic travel and tourism professionals with the right attitude, skills and education. Niche Tourism Academy (NTA) is one of the leading new generation online technology-based travel education platform founded by the visionary travel entrepreneur, Asad Siddiqui. NTA is a forward thinking institute offering World’s first Practical Digital Course on Package Tours. His 15 years of experience in travel and tourism industry, extensive interaction with the leading travel organizations like Trip Factory, industry experts and B2C travel agents revealed to Asad the massive talent gap in this domain. Asad believes that the only way to prepare the next generation of travel and tourism professionals for the challenges of the industry is by reimagining the possibilities of education. Asad, an ingenious travel expert was quick to perceive this opportunity and conceived Niche Tourism Academy, a revolutionary digital coaching platform to capitalize it. He pioneered the concept of “Customization of Online Package Tour” and blended it with the practical aspects of travel industry to offer next generation of tourism professionals with industry-oriented curriculum at Niche Tourism Academy. Learners at NTA will gain in-depth insights about the elementary as well as advanced fundamentals of travel and tourism through world-class digital coaching resources offered

Course Takeaways from Niche Tourism Academy

More awareness about the need of innovative tourism through Niche Tourism Academy will give travel industry and professionals a whole new lease of life. Asad aspires to support new-age learners with an integrated teaching-learning approach to master the in-demand skills and competencies in the travel and tourism industry.

NTA specializes in online package tour programmes which are tailored to facilitate learners with actionable insights that will give them a greater competitive edge in their tourism careers.

Engaging high quality online educational videos showcasing relevant travel industry-oriented case studies will help students understand tourism concepts with a product orientation. Some of the niche takeaways from the specialized courses at NTA to get a blueprint of building successful tourism careers are as follows:

Identify the gaps in the tourism market and customize their services and products in keeping with the demands of the consumer expectations.
Develop theoretical understanding of tourism aligned with the contemporary industry best practices in the market.
Learn with practical insights from real-life job scenarios and industry-driven case-studies.
Develop the ability to predict the changing trends in tourism domain and the adopt techniques to adapt to the market shifts.
Ability to take data-driven informed decisions to drive business optimization in the tourism domain.
Develop cohesive understanding of key functional areas like operations, technology, marketing, finance and HR in tourism.
Acquire a versatile mastery in customized skills and competencies aligned with your professional portfolios.
Upskill for a career upgradation or a lateral shift in the travel and tourism sector.

Who Can Be Benefited by this Course?

Anybody who is adventurous, a creative thinker, resourceful and has an incurable enthusiasm for travelling can become a successful travel and tourism professional. In fact every soul is a traveller in their hearts.

If you have the right attitude you can explore careers in the travel and tourism domain. In this profession you get unlimited opportunities to go places, meet different people and learn about diverse cultures.

Moreover, if you are one of those versatile individuals who want to create an impact and create a difference by creating employment opportunities and foster environmental well-being.

If you want to set a meaningful career direction in the travel industry, accelerate your employment opportunities and do something innovative in this vocation, joining Niche Tourism Academy can help you go miles. Having said that, here are just a few of the people who can benefit from this workshop:

Students pursuing Degree / Diploma or Post Graduation in tourism and hospitality.
Students who passed Degree / Diploma or Post Graduation in tourism and hospitality.
Tourism professionals from any functional area, market segment and companies.
Small and medium travel entrepreneurs, managers and top leadership positions.
Academicians from recognized universities, colleges or institutions related to tourism and hospitality.
Enterprising travel industry enthusiasts who are interested to start-up their own tourism initiative.
Founders, Presidents, and Vice-Presidents of Online Tourism Enterprises.

Testimonials

What Professionals Say

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As an IT Professional, I didn't have any idea of travel & tourism. Even I had no idea of how the hospitality industry worked. When I joined the travel industry under the supervision of Asad Bhia, he taught me all the basics of the travel industry. How to handle sales, tour plan, costing, tour operations etc. independently. Now I am an accomplished Package Tour Professional.

MS. BALWINDER KAUR

CEO - CATWALK HOLIDAYS PRIVATE LIMITED

I have worked along with Mr. Asad and as a Chief product officer, I found him highly knowledgeable about his job and he looks passionate about what he is doing and found him very friendly and a team man.

JAMSHEED HYDER

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR (TRAVELOGUE REPS., BANGALORE)

An experimental and explorer by nature with profound knowledge of the travel and tourism industry. He has built and delivered travel and holiday products. He understands the destinations, tech infrastructure, operational expertise, tourism challenges, customer pain points and business at a granular level. With the help of Niche Tourism Academy, today's generation will gain knowledge and practical approach from Mr. Asad's industry experience.

Gerald Gilbert Gerald Gilbert

Developer

A multi-skilled & gifted travel professional who has been through thorough shambles to exist as a known & a trusted source of cognizance. He's the one who never retires from spreading out his wonderful gift of knowledge. Some may call him a master craftsman who is diligent to progressively ameliorate his skill-set!!!

HARJOT SINGH

F&B DIRECTOR (HOTEL MONOTEL, KOLKATA) MONO ORION FOODS INDIA PVT. LTD.

I am delighted to write a few lines about a person who is one of the best personalities I have ever met in Tourism Industry. He has contributed a lot especially to Offbeat Tourism with his extensive destination knowledge & experience. He has been supportive to the B2B agents & customers in terms of ground operations by going beyond the expectation & this doesn’t end here. He is also passionate about filmography & Wild-life Photography as well. Above all, what makes him different from other professionals is his humanity & kindness. He is none other than Mr. Asad Siddiqui from West Bengal. I wish him all the success in his life.

PRASHANT KUMAR

MANAGER

First congratulations to Mr. Siddiqui for this innovative project. I am very much sure that this project will bring revolution in the tourism industry. I have started my journey with Mr. Siddiqui in the year 2013. At that stage, I was a fresher and even I did not know the spelling of 'Itinerary'. He has a thumb rule that "If someone doesn't know how to swim, then push him/her to the water then bring him back. After a few days, he/she must understand how to swim on his own." Then no one can stop you for sure in your life. Under his guidelines I had learned what actually tour operators do. Package design, operation even tour guide work also. In a single word, he was my Pathfinder to me. You can never understand Mr. Siddiqui and his knowledge, his techniques until and unless you work with him. Once again Best of luck with his upcoming project NICHE TOURISM ACADEMY

ABHISHEK PURKAIT

SR. OPERATION EXECUTIVE (ORCHID DMC PVT. LTD. - ORCHID GLOBAL)

I have known Asad Siddiqui for the last 9 years. We started our journey with the booking of Mauritius Package, where he had the best rates in the industry. After that our professional relationship has touched a new high every time. He has a vast knowledge of Travel Industry and the best knowledge in designing a niche package. Now that he is starting his new journey with a unique product that Travel Industry has never seen. New lads training under him will get immense knowledge and will come out being pro in designing any product. I wish him All The Best for his new venture “NICHE TOURISM ACADEMY” which this travel industry has never seen.

NIKHIL AVALANI

HEAD - MICE TICKETING (INSTA TOURISM PVT LTD, MUMBAI)

Mr. Asad Siddiqui is a very genuine, loyal, and professional person. I met with him on WhatsApp for the first time for my travel booking. He is Managing Director at Catwalk Holidays Pvt Ltd. He has very good experience and product knowledge of worldwide destinations in the tourism sector. I recommend to everyone to blind believe on him for any kind of package tour problems and its solution. I hope he will be bringing a revolution to the Indian tourism industry by starting his completely new and innovative project ‘Niche Tourism Academy’. And I will be the first one to join and be a part of his tourism community.

RUPESH KUMAR

AIRWAVES® HOLIDAYS (GURUGRAM, HARYANA)

Well.."Asad Sir" It is difficult to describe your ability in a very short note ;). All of us know that the travel industry's business platform is the busiest platform & no one has time to answer 15 to 20 inbound queries a day and make you understand the itinerary and pricing etc. But for me, Asad Sir was there to teach me about Bhutan and North East holiday packages. He is just a call away; I must say I am lucky to have him as a mentor. Thank You sir for your all support and guidance. I Will keep disturbing you in the future with more queries.;)

PRITI KUMARI

MMCEO (DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS)