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The independent hotels chain widens its services offer for associate members with on-line training tools from one of the major training centres for hotel management world-wide.
Hotusa Hotels offers all its associated hotels the possibility of accessing the best Cornell University training courses, in very favourable conditions. These are Advanced Programmes of Professional Development in Management and Administration given by this prestigious United States University via their eLearning solution, ‘eCornell’, whose representative in the Iberian Peninsula is HOTchefs, consultants specialized in personnel management with headquarters in Lisbon.
The Hotusa Group chairman, Amancio Lopez Seijas, affirms that “Personnel and team training is one of the major concerns of the tourist sector, so that for us it was a matter of utmost priority to offer an effective response to the needs of our associates”. This new service is now added to the offer of benefits that the Hotusa Group’s chain of independent hotels places at the disposal of its member establishments."
Members of the independent hotels chain will be able to have access to a total of 73 courses and 16 certified programmes from Cornell University, divided into six areas: Leadership and Strategic Management, Financial Management, Essential Management, Human Resources Management, Management of Accommodation and Restaurants and Project Leadership. The official programmes allow students to obtain a Diploma certified by Cornell University. The programme represents a guarantee of maximum optimization of the investment by means of strict evaluation of the training requirements for the independent hotels.
Cornell University, founded in 1865, is one of the oldest and most prestigious U.S.A. universities and the first) to create a school specializing in hotel management (1922). Cornell University is currently amongst the top 20 best U.S. universities and top 15 at world level.
At present, the portfolio held by Hotusa Hotels comprises over 2,330 associated establishments distributed throughout 27 European destinations: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey; 12 Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Guatemala and Venezuela; 4 African countries: Morocco, Mozambique, Tunisia and South Africa; 3 Asian countries: Singapore, China and India; in addition to the USA and Canada.
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