Tourism
training – making it easier to get the training your company
needs
The
Tourism Network has been awarded a significant amount of funding
from both the London Development Agency and the European Social
Fund to help tourism businesses in London identify the training
and skills development initiatives that could help improve their
bottom line and enhance their profitability.
Over
the next few months we’re developing a new website www.tourismtraining.info containing help and advice about training and staff retention.
The site is already live but will be further enhanced with much
more information, particularly about training courses available
to you and your colleagues.
As
part of this project we’ll also be launching the first
Tourism Network Handbook – more on this in the next issue
of this newsletter.
There
are two ways in which you can immediately benefit from this new
initiative. You can subscribe (free) to the new
quarterly newsletter called The Bottom Line,
about training and staff development that will also give you
access to some special events and services.
We’re
also arranging a series of (mostly free) events where you can
sample different types of practical training. You can
already book for two forthcoming events. The first of these takes place
on 11th May
in Central London and focuses on customer
care for international & disabled visitors,
including a special sample presentation on welcoming Chinese
visitors.
The
second event is on 12th July in
East London where we’ll
have a brief training course on promoting
high quality products to the Meetings, Incentive, Conference
and Exhibitions' market,
focusing on how to convert enquiries and show rounds into business.
Both
events are free to companies employing less than 250 people and
cost just £20 for all others. Brunch and networking opportunities
are included!
London
based businesses can book either of these events now by going
to www.tourismtraining.info/events.htm
The
London Development Agency has announced details of other staff
and training initiatives and full details of these are now available
on www.lda.gov.uk/tourism.
If
there’s any type of training you’re looking for and
can’t find please get in touch and we’ll help you
to find it.
Susan
Briggs
The
Tourism Network offers practical and entertaining marketing
training workshops. We use a combination of presentations,
exercises and examples so you can put what you learn into practice
as soon as you've done the workshop.
Or
perhaps
you'd prefer to suggest your own training subject and arrange
a tailor-made
course at a venue of your choice for you and your
colleagues? You can even choose how you want to learn, according
to how
much
time
you
have
and
what suits you. We also offer one-to-one sessions, group workshops,
and workbooks for completion at any time, or try our
latest innovation for FREE e-learning.
We hope this project will build on the success of our
last major training project in London - read
the case
study here.
To
discuss the kind of training that's right for you, please email
Susan Briggs or call 020 8947 4053.
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