Our own Indians look across seven seas for higher education and international Qualifications. They spend fortune, sometimes a big chunk of their accumulated reserves. Many even borrow huge amounts from bank and repay for years to come. They stay abroad and struggle for existence, manage to survive, hunt for any type of job and for what they call getting a “phoren” qualification.

Contrary to typical native mentality there are students abroad who know India is a shining place with great oriental warm culture. India has standard and status in educational field too. So they choose to come here for several benefits including acquiring international qualifications just at 20% of the cost they would spend abroad. From the 80% saved 20% goes to meet their stay and food, another 20% they spend for sight seeing. Thus after getting their cherished qualification and meeting the cost of staying, food and even sightseeing, they are still having their 40% saving of total cost thus adding to their bank balance.

With this wise calculation quite a few foreign students come to IHCTM for doing their international qualifications from UK, USA and Canada. During their stay they are virtually hosted and pampered besides getting superior quality teaching. Lenka is one such young lady who preferred to come to Mumbai for acquiring international qualifications.

About Lenka

Lenka is a young lass from Czech Republic. She was staying in London. She explored on the net to find out about institutes across the world including India. She even went to the official website of IATA and other international organizations and found IHCTM to be on top for its quality education. Besides IHCTM offers choice of multiple international qualifications. After confirming a few facts about courses and facilities she came to IHCTM in the month of June 2006. The Institution also helped her to find convenient PG accommodation.

Being a focused young lady, she short listed 3 qualifications from UK, USA and Canada from the long list of International qualifications offered right here at IHCTM in Mumbai.

During her 8 months stay not only she studied and fulfilled her academic ambitions, but also got lot of help and guidance from “Compact Travels” - associate company of IHCTM specializing in Destinations for FIT holidays. Thus IHCTM has been popular institute for students around the world as they are able to pursue multiple international qualifications simultaneously.

Let our youth also do like foreigners who come from far off places to study, succeed and save money too!. India needs more and more of our youngsters to be here and get rich too. The opportunities are abundant and the qualifications acquired here can get them cushy jobs with good pay and perks as well as chance to go abroad through their international qualifications. Courses Lenka joined at IHCTM

INDIA - through a foreigner's eyes!

My name is Lenka Kozlovska and I am from the Czech Republic. I came to India to study the IATA Management course which is run by the RBCS group, based in Mumbai. I will be leaving India in a few days and would like to share some of my experiences and reflections of my last 8 months in India. I have always loved travelling and discovering new cultures, I also enjoy working in the travel industry and therefore came upon the idea to combine my love of travel with the bonus of receiving an nternationally recognized education in the Travel Industry in Mumbai. Before deciding on doing this course I first researched various countries which were suitable for me to study in.

Why India

Finance was the major factor as I would be using most of my savings in order to fulfill this challenge. India was very attractive to me because the price of the course was reasonable but I was somewhat doubtful if I can adapt here. Fortunately I had many Asian friends from my Napier University days in Edinburgh and their positive influence along with India's mystical charm made me decide that this was the right choice for me.

My first impressions

My first impressions on arrival in Mumbai was one of disappointment, shock and amazement. Everything was so different from that, that I was used to, such as the heat, the poverty, so many people. It was a culture shock! It made me feel scared, powerless and lonely. After a few days I began to settle in and started my course. I was eager to learn as much as possible and enjoyed the cozy atmosphere of the classroom and soon made friends in a short time and developed a comfortable relationship with my teachers. Everyone was very helpful in giving me advice and information and making me feel welcome. The biggest obstacle I faced was trying to find suitable accommodation and making my way around such a large city.

The public transport system was a big headache in the beginning but I soon learned how it worked. Shopping was also a problem as I often couldn't find the things I wanted, also sales people try to sell me items I did not want. I soon learned how to say no and even pressed down prices and after a while traders respected me and I could go around my business relatively uncoerced.

Pondering over my experience here in India I have learnt a lot about the people of this land and learnt a lot about myself. In the early days of my arrival here I was sometimes uncertain and frustrated with life here and often felt like returning home. Now that my time here is over for now, I see so many positive aspects of this land and its people. People of India are her greatest asset with their resilience, tolerance, sheer hard work and their never give up attitude. I have experienced the kindness and respect they have for each other and this often lifted my spirits. As I travelled around the many beautiful regions and saw the many sights and wonders, I can only be sure that India with its multi cultural society has a very promising future.

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