Guidelines in English

ABOUT YTP: YTP national competition is held among 3rd grade students majoring in English translation or Tourism management in national in national or private universities of Mongolia. YTP is organized annually from 2008 and the biggest tourism competition on Tourism in Mongolia.

VISION: To support students who study harder for being top managers and support human resources in Mongolian tourism industry, to develop competition between the university's and lesson quality and to improve the skills of students.

SIGNIFICANCE: Those students, who succeed in the competition will be contacted by the biggest tourism & hospitality companies such as Ramada, Puma Imperial hotels, Aero Mongolia, Mongolian Airlines air companies, Gobi Tour, Gobi Mirage, Gobi Discovery, Steppe Nomads tourist camps etc as the companies are eager to offer work positions before the students' graduation and the successful participants will be documented in the information data base of Tourism Development Foundation.

PARTICIPANTS: Participants in this competition are 3rd year student of national and private universities, majoring in tourism management with good English skills or English translation with extensive tourism knowledge.

PROCEDURE: YTP is organized with 2 stages on March 3 – 17, 2012.

ESSAY: The participants will submit their applications and essays to [email protected]
The topic of the essay is "RESPONSIBLE TOURISM IN MONGOLIA", the essay is written in Mongolian. 

Deadline for sumbission: 01 March 2012.

STAGE 1: The first 60 participants from the ESSAY stage will take part in this stage. Competition will be held on 3 March 2012 at the lecture hall of the University of Humanities.
Tasks:
1. English language skills test
2. Questions & answers regarding tourism in Mongolian.

STAGE 2: The first 20 participants, who got the highest scores in STAGE 1 will participate. Competition is held on 17 March 2012 at Puma Imperial Hotel.

Tasks:

1. EQ test 
2. Case studies in English
3. Presentation on given topics

COMPETITION AWARDS: 

• 1st place: Trophy of Young Tourism Pro and reward RAMADA Hotel
• 2nd place: Certificate and reward Aero Mongolia Company
• 3rd place: Certificate and reward of Mongolian Airlines Company

Competition general organizers: Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism, Responsible Tourism Development Fund

Competition initiator & General sponsor: Selena Travel Group

Competition sponsors: Ramada Hotel, Aero Mongolia, Mongolian Airlines and Puma Imperial hotel 
Media sponsors: Niigmiin Toli newspaper, www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn, www.mongoliatourism.org and www.travelnews.mn

Competition co-organizers: Mongolian University of the Humanities, National University of Mongolia, University of Science and Technology, Educational University, University of Trade and Industry, Ikh Zasag university, Otgontenger university, Gazarchin university and Green Peace Club

If you have any questions and suggestions about this competition please feel free to contact us at:

Responsible Tourism Development Fund: E-mail: [email protected]
Contact phone: +976-7018-3499, +976-91993499