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Two perspectives of tourism in Wales
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The vocational school home Mindelheim with the branch office acts as a sending institution in Bad Wörishofen. The Technical High School belongs to this school for assistants for hotel and tourism management. The BFS Grafenau, the teachers and instructors of both schools as well as those of the taking up institution, the Coleg Cambria are further involved in Wrexham/Wales. The institution will also provide for lodging, catering and training period mediation. The need arises from the fact that the students must finish several training periods during their education by which one is planned as a foreign training period. Within the scope of this project a 3-week stay should take place for approximate 40 participants who come from the BFS Grafenau as well as from the bath BFS Wörishofen between May and June, 2015 and in 2016 in the college in Wrexham which serves, among the rest, to cover this foreign training period. Furthermore the students will have contact in their later working life in the tourism or Hotelleriebranche with guests from abroad. In addition the English language as well as the basic knowledge is necessary in international behaviour patterns. The students must learn as early as possible an installation in intercultural behaviour and intercultural approaches which are marked largely by Anglican approaches. Further they must also be able to move on international circles and can dive into new cultures. This means first that within the scope of this project the students take part in a linguistic course in the college. The respective level step of the single participant is determined by an input test, so that an optimum support of the students is guaranteed. The course contents are tuned to essential aspects of the later field of activity of the students. Thus the subject fields general communication and presentation rules, phoning and correspondence, complaint management, main features of the personnel guidance and analysis of target groups should be treated by the single lecturers in their groups. Moreover, general rules of intercultural trade are not only got to know, but are also deepened in exercises. Besides, different open teaching forms are applied. The second stone consists in the fact that the students visit different places of interest of the surroundings and discuss with the tourism specialist staff there the marketing plans and strategies. Afterwards it is their job to compile a presentation to the visited tourist places of interest, to present this in the college before an audience and to compare the results to those in Germany. The third stone of this project intends that the students develop their work practical abilities in facilities belonging to college and companies of the catering trade and Hotellerie or the travel agency quite specifically. By their cooperation the students should get to know the expiry structures and value. Besides, a learning report should be provided and perhaps improvement suggestions be made. Because in the college is spoken excluding English, the verbal and written linguistic competence should be also promoted beside the technical and work practical continuing education. The students should find out at the example of the English structure of society with a high portion in migrant the contact with different mentalities and cultures and practise tolerance. The project is divided in three phases: The preparatory phase is planned in detail and intensely, it should start about 6 weeks before the crossing the border. After the participants were selected on account of their application and application talks, the data of the compulsory preparatory meetings and the seminar week-end are given. At the beginning of the meetings the actual information of the Coleg Cambria is given which works on from there shut package of information with the suitable newspaper articles, professional vocabulary among other thing and signs the ECVET learning arrangements of the students whom they clear up, among the rest, about the learning contents, appointments and duration of the project. After the preparatory phase (February / March, 2015) the first Flow joins in May / June, 2015. There the teaching modules already shown in the approach and excursions as well as the final presentation are carried out. The reflecting phase and evaluation phase encloses a meeting of the participant students with the involved teachers with which the experiences are exchanged. Moreover, the students get a questionnaire. The results are evaluated and flow in onto the planning of the next Flows with. The final festive frame event for the assignment of the europassports and certificates takes place in July, 2016.
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