SENAI introduces courses on hotel industry management on the Internet

Training Virtual Centre on Tourism works through a website on the Internet

 

What about upgrading your knowledge and acquiring new occupational qualifications with direct contact with a teacher and exchange of experiences with other professionals in Brazil and overseas without getting out of your home?
This is the opportunity SENAI do Ceará is offering for those in the hotel and tourism sector, since the second semester of last year when the Centro Virtual de Educacao para o Turismo, CVCT, (Virtual Centre for Education on Tourism) was created.

The CVCT works through a website and holds courses of continuing training in Hotel Industry Management and Marketing, as well as courses on Beverages and Food, which will start in March. It is also developing courses on Human Resources Management, Accounting and Accommodations.

The students follow up the course on the website using tools such as forums and e-mails to discuss and exchange experiences with other students and teachers. Discussions based on real cases and clarifications of doubts take place in lively chats on the Internet.

The courses on line make possible that students study on their available time without the need for travelling. This helps students that do not live in big urban centres where the offer of courses is smaller. Also, since students are scattered in different cities, the exchange of experiences on tourist and hotel industry reality is richer.

The development of the courses is structured around reality. The team of professionals involved in the project - that includes professionals of nation-wide recognition, such as Jan von Bahr from the Caesar Park Hotel, Katia Redig, Director of the Atlantica Hotels International, and Ana Oliveira, Hotel Consultant who works in enterprises as the Blue Tree network - knows the sector and seeks to create activities in which students have to solve problems that are present in the day to day life of Brazilian hotels. The professor Doris Ruschmann (PhD) co-ordinates the team responsible of the didactic material that supports students in the solution of the proposed activities.

Aside from the courses, the website offers other services for those linked to the world of tourism such as suggestions on books, events calendars, news on tourism appeared in the main newspapers of the country and a CV list where professionals can list themselves and enterprises can seek personnel.

Source: Informativo do Departamento Nacional do SENAI N° 63. Year 12, jan-feb, 2003.

 

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