Tourism and Hospitality courses

Learn to tend a bar, serving drinks and making coffee.

This course provides basic knowledge for those attending a bar or working as a drinks waiter or waitress. Develop a broad understanding of the industry, become familiar alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks; how to provide service to bar customers, mix a range of drinks and appreciate different wines.

Who does this course?

• People working in a restaurant, hotel etc. wanting to further their scope for advancement
• Anyone starting a restaurant or accomodation facility who may want these skills
• Young people seeking a marketable skill they can use to seek employment for a year or two while studying or travelling
• Students of hospitality who take this course as part of a larger certificate or diploma

If you're considering setting up and managing a Bed and Breakfast or Guesthouse this is the course for YOU!

Learn to set up and manage a Guest House, or Bed and Breakfast operation. The course covers facilities, decor, equipment, customer service, supplying meals, financial management, marketing and more.

Opening your home to paying guests is not for everyone but for some it can be a wonderful way to earn a living, meet interesting people and make use of otherwise unused space, all at the same time

Develop knowledge and skills in the planning and management of special events including gallery openings, festivals, exhibitions and sporting events.

This is a huge and rapidly growing industry with many career opportunities!

You may decide to start your own event management (eg. Wedding Planner, Corporate Event Manager, Conference Organiser, Exhibition Company), or seek employment with an event management company or in a government authority or marketing department of some other organisation. Opportunities in this industry are only limited by your imagination and initiative.

WORK ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!

There are many exciting job opportunities for those with solid hotel management skills. You can work in a variety of locations and types of facilities. It is a fascinating industry that can provide enough change and challenge to keep you both interested and constantly in work.

Want to organise and manage Events?

• Exhibitions or Shows?
• Concerts
• Weddings, Parties,Celebrations
• Festivals, Conferences, Seminars

This is a very solid qualification providing skills, knowledge and experiences within the field of event management and related disciplines. It is designed to prepare you for a professional career in this field, and to develop a capacity to manage a wide range of different events, small or large.

An excellent foundation for a career in management in the tourism or hospetality industry. This course develops a diverseand unique combination of valuable skills that will set you apart from graduates of other courses. As with most industries, being different is often what gives you the edge over the competition.

Event Managers are both self employed small business operators, and employees of larger organisations such as: wedding venues, hotels, resorts, exhibition companies, concert promoters and conference organisers.

Event management can be both a challenging and stimulating industry if you have the personality, knowledge and perseverence to succeed. Like most industries, there are pitfalls that you need to be aware of, and careful to avoid; but with a course such as this, you will be laying a very sound foundation for future success.

Hospitality is a major employer, through enterprises ranging from hotels, resorts and guesthoses to restaurants and catering businesses.

This course is a great starting point for building skills, knowledge and opportunity; both for those who already work in hospitality or food service, and those who hope to forge a career or start a business.

This course lays the foundation for a long term career in an industry that is rapidly changing, always exciting and challenging; but can be difficult to thrive in if you don't have the right mix of skills.

Despite the ups and downs of the tourism industry throughout recent years; this remains one of the most significant industries globally. Opportunities have always existed for people with appropriate skills and a little entrepeneurial flair; even in the low times. This course provides a mix of learning that is designed to make a difference; coupled together with an opportunity to be trained and mentored by some highly successful and qualified tutors.

There are shorter and less focused courses offered elsewhere; but for a long term future in this industry, a longer and more solid training is always going to give you a better prospects.

This is a Professional Development Program; designed for people with either previous studies, or prior experience, to up skill and fill in gaps in their knowledge; thus improving prospects for success in business or a career in this industry.

This is awarded on completion of:

• Three modules (eg. Hotel Management, Food & Beverage Management & Ecotour Management)
• A workplace project or work experience (approved by a tutor from the school, and equal to 200 hours)

Want to Work in Tourism?

Tourism has become a major recreation pursuit, and commercial industry world wide. It is so significant today that some regions (even some countries) economies, are more heavily dependent upon tourism than anything else. The tourism industry encompasses the provision of all those services used by people when travelling away from home. The reason for travel is most obviously "a holiday"; but may also be "business".

Become a Wedding Planner

A wedding planner will have a range of tasks from hiring the band, talking to the photographer, finding a caterer, getting low prices for things and above all be VERY well organised. They are normally self employed businessmen or women; who understand all aspects of the wedding industry, and are continually cultivating a network of contacts within that industry. Don’t worry if you are unfamiliar with the wedding industry, or for that matter, basic business practices NOW: that’s why you need to be doing the course.