2024-06-06 13:28:25
The significance of tourism training within the provision of high quality companies within the hospitality sector was highlighted by Greek tourism specialists, from the stage of the 2nd Regional Convention of the Panhellenic Federation of Hoteliers in Crete.
After underlining that the human aspect is a comparative benefit for Greek tourism, they emphasised that there’s nice scope for enhancing tourism training within the nation.
Ilias Kikilias: The nation offers 1 billion euros for vocational coaching with unsure outcomes
The Normal Director of INSET Ilias Kikilias, after declaring that skilled tourism training in Greece is missing compared to different international locations. Actually, he talked about that the nation is giving 1 billion euros for skilled coaching, from funds of the restoration fund, however with unsure outcomes, as he defined. After emphasizing that the state tourism colleges in Rhodes and Anavyssos don’t meet trendy necessities, he famous, amongst different issues, that there needs to be particular applications tailored to the necessities of small lodges. On the identical time, Mr. Kikilias highlighted the good demand for the institute’s applications within the space of upgrading tourism expertise. In the mean time when INSETE can cowl 1500 locations for tourism coaching, the purposes exceed 6,000 purposes.
Konstantinos Marinakos: Tourism colleges in Greece should grow to be Tourism Academies
for his half, the Professor of the College of Western Attica, Konstantinos Marinakos, in addition to the president of the Peloponnese Tourism Group, identified that tourism training ought to and might comply with the well-known tourism training colleges overseas, particularly in Switzerland. Nevertheless, to ensure that Greece to change into Switzerland within the area of tourism training, the tourism colleges in Rhodes and Athens ought to grow to be tourism Academies, following the mannequin of the worldwide colleges in Lausanne. Specializing in his proposals for the upgrading of tourism research in Greece, he identified that the prevailing instructional applications in larger training needs to be renewed each 3 years. He additionally talked about new graduate applications with particular programs, but in addition in regards to the want for a robust workplace to attach graduates with the labor market.
Grecotel is a mannequin in worker coaching – 6,000 workers at digital desks yearly
Within the meantime, Grecotel, the most important lodge group, as Dimitris Kalaitzidakis, the Group’s operational director, identified, with the intention to reply to the challenges of upgrading the tourism expertise of its workers, yearly it carries out particular coaching applications for its greater than 6,000 workers. By way of a particular digital platform, which incorporates 15 thematic modules in addition to a digital library of 130 programs, the group’s workers obtain high-level coaching yearly with the intention to meet the fashionable challenges of hospitality. Mr. Kalaitzidakis reminded that Grecotel is a mannequin within the area of Greek hospitality, a results of the philosophy that governs the genes of the group. A philosophy that lodges are the extension of the hospitality that the customer enjoys within the Cretan residence. Each worker who’s skilled at Grecotel is licensed, emphasised Mr. Kalaitzidakis, emphasizing that the higher skilled an worker is.
Agapi Sbokou (SETE): Human sources are a situation for fulfillment, to go even larger
Lastly, the vice-president of SETE, Agapi Sbokou, made a particular reference to human sources in her intervention, noting that within the decade of disaster, employers and workers constructed an vital legacy. A mutual understanding situation, as he defined. “We should protect and develop this legacy. Human sources are a situation for fulfillment, in order that we are able to all go even larger collectively. The second issues the measures, the methods, the course we’ll take, for a sustainable Greek tourism. And after we discuss sustainability, we imply respect for the atmosphere, for individuals, for nature, for traditions, for our tradition. That is the course we should always take instantly, in order that we not solely shield our product, however make it much more trendy, much more aggressive, much more environment friendly. And on this course, Crete can play a central function. It has the touristic custom and know-how, It has distinctive pure wealth and an enormous cultural reserve”, stated Mrs. Sbokou.