School of Tourism Hospitality Service Sectoral Management is affiliated to Indira Gandhi National Open University. Tourism and hospitality are the highest employment generators, and contribute significantly to the country's GDP, but they also demand quality manpower. With this in mind, IGNOU offers a series of courses at the School of Tourism Hospitality Service Sectoral Management (SOTHSM). It launched a modest certificate programme and followed it up with a series of courses: Diploma , Bachelors, Masters and the PhD programme.