About Us

Let me extend a hearty welcome to you to the Legend International College of Hospitality and Tourism which is better known as LICHT.

Hospitality and tourism in nature is global and is today the world’s largest and fastest growing industry which offers great potential for job opportunities, career advancement and job satisfaction more than any other industry. Clearly there is and will be considerable international demand for highly skilled and qualified young people like you to manage the growth. Thus, the mode of training and education conducted at LICHT emphasizes the elements of local and international flavor.

LICHT’s mission is to provide quality post-secondary hospitality education based upon international standards, combining valued traditions with recent management techniques and methods, to develop graduants capable of meeting international hospitality industry demands, and to provide a network for further education and employment opportunities. To fulfill this mission, LICHT strives to meet these strategic goals:

• Meet the needs of its students as a consumer of its services by offering a range of hospitality programs taught by a multi-national team of instructors who are skilled, qualified, and up-to-date in their respective areas of expertise.

• Supply the local and international hospitality industries with students and graduates capable of assuming appropriate work responsibilities upon employment, and with the potential to grow and advance rapidly, while assisting their employers to do likewise.

• Participate in an international network of educational partners jointly offering a variety of further educational opportunities for LICHT graduates.

• Provide a stimulating, nurturing, and cross-cultural environment conducive to both the academic and personal growth of the student.

• Present and follow a framework that allows the student to build self-confidence in making ethical decisions.

The decision to come and study at LICHT will not only put you on the right path to obtaining a quality degree, but most importantly will help your career ambitions come to fruition by modeling them on international standards and requirement.

The World Travel and Tourism Council estimates that between now and the year 2017, the hotel and tourism industry will generate 262 million jobs which represents one out of every ten jobs in the world. This encouraging forecast indicates that a world of opportunity is opening in the hospitality industry. If you want to work in hospitality, tourism, gaming, entertainment, events, sports management or travel, LICHT has a program to help you meet your goals.

To meet the employment needs of the hospitality industry, LICHT provides hospitality management education of the highest quality along with job-training opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence of every graduate. Attracting the very best students requires flexibility, a focus on innovation in education, and the ability to anticipate and adapt to this constantly changing industry.

By choosing LICHT, you will join a team of passionate educators committed to developing future leaders along with a team of enthusiastic students dedicated to becoming successful managers and entrepreneurs.

My team and I look forward to welcoming you here and guiding you through your time with us. Definitely the time you choose to spend with us will be unforgettable and we hope that it will lead you to a successful hospitality career.

Best wishes from LICHT.

Pn Badariah Mansor
Head of College

‘’The reputation and quality of LICHT’s Diploma programs owe its success to the combination of theoretical and practical teaching, inculcated with humanistic values and the philosophy that “all theoretical knowledge that must be immediately  verified by practical experience”. Badariah Mansor – July 2009