Dusit strengthens Swiss link

BANGKOK, 24 January 2012: Dusit International’ educational subsidiary, Dusit Thani College, has reached an agreement with Switzerland’s Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne to introduce a new hospitality curriculum in Thailand

Details of the agreement were announced by the hotel group last week. The new programme leading up to a Bachelor Degree on Hotel and Resort Management will start with the 2012 student intake.

Dusit executives said the partnership aims to raise the bar of hospitality education in Thailand and will be open for international students. Read more

Vietnam:Training a top priority

HANOI, 19 January 2012: Vietnam Tourism Association says staff training is a long- term task needed to ensure the country can step up its competitiveness in the region.

The association deputy chairman, Nguyen Huu Tho, said new training programmes will be introduced through to 2016 to achieve objectives to move the country up the scale to become a leader in ASEAN.

“Over the next five years, the association plans to ask relevant authorities to establish a Tourism Knowledge Fostering School to train staff and managers,” he said. Read more

TAT lists training programme

BANGKOK, 19 January 2012: Tourism Authority of Thailand’s training network division announced Wednesday a new seminar curriculum for 2012 that will focus on sustainability and improving online marketing for industry players.

Training network division director, Panjit Santhatkollakar, said there are 17 seminars in six categories that will focus on knowledge-based tourism. They are in addition to brainstorming sessions that seek to tap feedback from industry leaders for next year’s marketing plan.

“We have six major seminar topics including three new themes to support our objective of achieving sustainability,” said Ms Panjit. Read more

Sunny skies over Vientiane’s Hotels

VIENTIANE, 14 December 2011: The forecast for Vientiane’s hotel looks sunny, but bring an umbrella,” Horwath HTL’s Shyn Yee Ho-Strangas told the 5th Lanith Quarterly Symposium at Vientiane’s Settha Palace last Friday.

Lanith (Lao National Institute of Tourism and Hospitality) chief technical advisor Peter Semone opened the event “Hotel and Tourism Development in Vientiane: Current Trends and Future Prospects” warning, “Vientiane is making a big mistake in its haphazard hotel development and assuming customers will come. They need a plan.”

Singapore-based, Horwath HTL assistant director, marketing and special projects for Asia Pacific Ho-Strangas, then presented, “ASEAN Hotel Sector: Key Market Trends”.

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THA’s September seminars

BANGKOK, 7 September 2011 – Thai Hotels Association released, Tuesday, details of its latest training programme scheduled for September.

The training sessions will be held at Asia Hotel in Bangkok, 27 to 29 September.

There are six-training courses covering tax administration, communications in hospitality, a writing course, human resources and cost management. Read more

THA plans language courses

BANGKOK, 7 March 2011 – Thai Hotels Association is inviting hotel staff to apply for Russian language classes, which will be held during 7 May to 10 July, it announced earlier this week.

Open to both member and non-member hotels, the Russian language courses will be led by Thammasat University. There are three  courses: Listening and Speaking Russian; Russian for business and Russian for the service industry. Courses cover 50 hours of tuition.

Russia is an important market for Thai hotels delivering, in 2010, 611,019 trips that represented  an increase of 81.33% over 336,965 trips in 2009.

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TAT hands out marketing tips

BANGKOK, 13 October 2010 – Tourism Authority of Thailand announced Tuesday, it will host a free marketing seminar to help tourism companies understand changing markets.

The training seminar dates are 18 October to 11 November in three venues – Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket.

The seminar “Modern Marketing: the key to successful tourism business” will be in Thai language covering four areas such as the power of creativity versus marketing war, customer relations management, integrated marketing communications and brand building strategy.

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VisitBritain launches online training

BANGKOK, 10 September, 2010 – VisitBritain introduced a new online training scheme, last Thursday, aimed at certifying local travel agency staff as UK travel specialists.

The official launch of the worldwide training scheme is scheduled for 15 September, but Thai agents will have to wait until 4 October before the Thai language version of the BritAgent website is up and running.

British Ambassador to Thailand, Quinton Quayle assisted at a trade preview opening his residents to 40 leading travel agents, who listened to presentations on the up-coming BritAgent internet-based training programme.

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Travel gurus network at BKK event

SINGAPORE, 20 August 2010 – Travel leaders will meet in Bangkok, 7 September, to discuss travel distribution and marketing at Asia Connect, a brand new event for the Thai travel industry.

Billed as a networking event to introduce industry leaders to students of travel, tourism and hospitality, the event will be hosted by Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association (HSMAI) Asia Pacific, who are teaming up WIT-Web In Travel.

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THA offers training courses

BANGKOK, 17 August 2010 – Thai Hotel Association invites members and non-members to join specialised training courses to improve skills. The  courses are scheduled this September

The association offers five new courses including: English writing; using telephone to impress customers; housekeeping training; training a housekeeping chief; personality development, make-up and hairdo training.

All are day-courses except English writing which covers two days. Courses will be held at SC Park Hotel 16 to 17 September while the English writing course starts 21 September.

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