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Experienta europeana in domeniul turismului pentru..
Experienta europeana in domeniul turismului pentru o cariera de succes
Start date: Oct 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project “The European Experience in Tourism for a Successful Career” meets the strategic goals contained in the Action and Management Plan of the school. It offers our students a quality training at European Standards to meet both present and future needs of the community, pupils' aspirations, but at the same time to ensure their quick and easy integration into the labor market and increase their chances of employment and possibly future work experiences in the European countries.
The target group consists of 18 students from 11th form with the qualification Technician in Tourism. They will attend 90 hours (three weeks) of practical training following Module VI from the Practical Training Strategies, The Technical Operations of Travel Agents. This qualification is highly regarded in our local community, considering the area where we live, an area with a strong tourism potential situated nearby Felix Thermal Water Spa.
The Romanian tourism and its economical development potential is still in early stage of development compared to practices and offers from other European countries and therefore there is a special need of professional skilled people to provide expertise and quality to promote and support tourism services. Our school tries to provide specialized and complex training to ensure people able to provide services of great quality, attractive travel offers, but we have difficulties in ensuring students a practical training of the Module VI, The Technical Operations of Travel Agents. Our students don`t have a Travel Agency where they can do the practical training. In Salonta there is a Travel Agency which is a subsidiary of an Agency from Hungary and it is not willing to accept students for professional practice.
The students will do the practical training in Granada in May, 2015 in collaboration with MEP ( Europrojects Organisation).
The project targets:
1. Providing professional skills training to high standards by integrating participants in a European working environment, in order to integrate into the labor market
2. Accumulation of professional knowledge, language, information about the local culture and tradition
3. Improving communication skills in the workplace, training of professional conduct, preparation for professional life and for a successful integration into the labor market
4. Establishing a platform for transnational collaboration between Romanian training institutions and European companies and developing mutual trust and cooperation within the EU
Under the guidance of the tutors students will learn practical to identify different segments of customers, the factors that hinder the movement of tourists, they will analyze the advantages of transportation and will learn how to present them to the customers. They will complete the documents used to purchase a ticket, they will learn to manage travel arrangements, will recommend various tourist services, will learn to determine the selling price of the packages, to assess satisfaction obtained from a tourist service. They will learn to make tourism programs to promote programs made up, will see how a business in tourism is functioning, which are the departments and the internal organization of a travel agency. Students will learn to work in teams, develop their technical language and communication skills in a foreign language, will become more confident in their ability to work in an efficient agency. They will come into contact with other cultures and other attitudes.
The project implementation will be based on the Memorandum of Agreement and the common management plan that will ensure the achievement of project targets and also the expected results.
Expected results of the project:
Development of knowledge, skills, professional skills of the participating students tying them to the practical side of their future job;
Development of communication skills in English and Spanish;
Development of the entrepreneurial skills by creating a travel agency as a training firm;
Change of mentality, increasing self-confidence, preparing young people for future job;
Making a curricular auxiliary on the theme “European experience in organizing and running a travel agency”, printed materials 50 pieces;
Making a dictionary of technical terms in three languages: Romanian – English – Spanish;
Permanent partnership agreements with the host organization;
The acquisition by students of The Europass Mobility Certificate and The Certificate of Participation in the practical training;
Making a project team specialized in writing new applications to attract European funds.