Every good thing comes to an end so did this Conference held by the UNWTO.TedQual

Finally the Conference came to an end after 3 days of informational and educaitonal learning sessions not only for the delegates who represented different colleges all over Europe, but also for all the students who attended the seminars. After the overwhelming award given to Sacha and Mr. George from Brussels, there were few discussion on the future plan for next year including the on-going Africa project as well. The co-ordinators of UNWTO.TedQual Ms. Ibanez (the Manager of the programme) and Ms.Abusleme (the communication co-ordinator), as well as the other delegates were quite impressed by our college, and said this is one of the best in Europe, which was an appreciation to all the Staff, Faculties and Students. As per the students' point of view, who were directly or indirectly connected to this conference, I would say that, " This conference has given us such an amazing experience, not only by having a chance to take responsibility and do good by yourself, but also knowing and learning well from others. Ended the day with lots of business card exchanges, some pictures and wine.

Way to GO SACHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hearty congratulations to our fellow student 'Sacha Guillemin' who won the award for the best presentation from the conference held by UNWTO.TedQual hosted alongwith and at César Ritz Colleges in Brig, Switzerland.  An amazing opportunity for Sacha to not only join and work with the UNWTO.TedQual but is also going to represent the college. It is a matter of great proud that Sacha has recieved this opportunity. He has also been selected to be in a project with other international students to share his knowledge all over the world.

Way to Go Sacha!!!

'Turismo de Portugal', an organization working with UNWTO.TedQual

 Mrs. Cristina Duque from Tourismo de Portugal presented to us how in their organization which being national tourism authority in the Ministry of economy, inculcates innovation and development and helps to develop education and training of the human resources in the tourism sector. They organized a network between 16 schools with 3, 339 students to provide vocational education for young students and professionals. The important thing is that the program includes the subjects that relates to the industry like front office, food production, hotel management accommodations, etc. and as well offer opportunities to try hands on experience on such subjects. in practice like workshops in restaurant opened for public where the students are preparing and serving the food and the earning goes to the college for financial help to the institution. Another important and interesting thing was opening of the practical hotel in Lisbon, boutique hotel next to the school where students will be trained by the staff and have their duties, which is one of the extent to which an institution can get to provide hands on training of what students have learned.

The professional and personal project of the students

Mr. Baudin from La Rochelle Business School in France presented us today the Humancite programme.The
program was created by Daniel Peyron General Director as a “special internship”.  In 2004 program became a part of the curriculum which lasts 3-5 months and has humanitarian, social and civic mission and now there were 370 humacite missions.Students went to Kenya, Morocco, India, Vietnam, USA, Africa and other countries. Before, the students have to be prepared by special courses like “humanitarian activities”, pre-projects and of course have all that make their trip safe. It is very well planned program, supervised by the school and special organizations. 

The program like humacite helps students to see another side of the world where not everything is perfect and opportunities are limited, to see people suffering and then experience great chance to help them. La Rochelle helps the students on other dimension of Human aspects. Teaches to make money but not at any price and be social and corporate responsible. If at the beginning students are not very appreciate this then after the experience they say to the school “thank you” and happy that they had this unforgettable experience.

Taking leadership roles as 'Professionals'

Another spectacular live-project presentation presented by our students, Irina Usenko, Teodora Lyuleva, Joshua Tiong about how they planned the marketing and operating strategy for 2 hotels in Bulgaria by 'Best Western'. The team acted like a real consultancy company, learned a lot for the past 3 months and has 3 more months to complete new tasks such as: Logo, Renaming, Mission Statement, Vision, an implementation plan and a Marketing Budget. The opportunity given by the college and the hotel was immense for the students. Of course like most of the real businesses, they too had some problems in the initial time of the project, but with proper communication, enthusiasm and the zeal to do something among the students they worked it out and came out with amazing results. They presented a lot of recommendations to the hotels, and they have another term left to work on this project to help the organizations with technical things like logos, Mission and Vision statements etc.

'Not just grades, a lot more than that" - right way to judge students

'Understand the students'- is what Mr.George Ubbelhode from Brussels Business Institute, Belgium said. Be updated with the students, know how they are, see what they want to learn and research how you can plan the classes/lectures so as to maintain a balance between, learning, enjoyment, team work activities and discussions. The lectures should be planned well before-hand, and over all development is something on which light should be put on. In this fast changing world, 'current' becomes 'past' very soon, so its important for educators to be updated to provided the knowledge that will be useful for them. Lastly he also put in the thought along with Ms.Loreto that judging students just based on his/her grades has become a conventional and old way, the new way, which the UNWTO.TedQual also follows is to see the over all development of the student, like his/her leadership roles, his self confident, his thinking capability and motivation and so on.

A nice presentation which was directed towards the other colleague Lecturers and Professors, but was also interesting for students to know how important it is being student and giving their contribution.

An amazing end to the second day of the UNWTO.TedQual conference

After a day full of informaitonal, educational and learning sessions with presentations from the students and the delegates of UNWTO.TedQual from all over Europe, it was an amazing ending session of the day with a session of 'wine-tasting' along with one the college's professor, Mr. Oritz.
An informaitonal session on how the wines are, how they are made, what are the processes, the differences and lots more. An experience which most of us would remember for a long time, and the session with Mr.Ortiz was  enjoyable which rejeauvinated all of us to be prepared for yet another day of enthusiastic session today.