however these funds are not currently earmarked to support tourism training although discussions are underway between the egyptian tourism federation and the ministry of manpower to assign a portion of the levy from tourism establishments to training in belgium for example employer contributions and sectoral funds finance a range of public and private training initiatives enterprises who host registered apprentices or interns can benefit from a reduction in their social contributions for each worker or employee which participates in the train the trainer programme up to a maximum of eur other countries however note the absence of industry levies and support mechanisms to finance skills and career development in the tourism industry sometimes in contrast to other sectors