Dusit Thani College, Thailand’s leading hospitality education institution beneath the Dusit Thani Hotel Group, has yearly participated in the PHIST or Phuket Hotels for Islands Sustaining Tourism occasion, which this 12 months was lately held at SAii Laguna Phuket Hotel.
PHIST is an revolutionary occasion rallying the lodge trade and its stakeholders to debate environmental sustainability and group benefits. It is a collaboration between the Phuket Hotels Association, Greenview and C9 Hotelworks.
On this event, Dusit Thani College, led by Simon David Lloyd, Executive Dean of Hospitality Management and John Lohr, Executive Director of External Affairs, together with international students from the Hospitality Management and Professional Culinary Arts packages hosted a workshop titled “Engaging with Education to Deliver Social Sustainability and Develop, Retain your Talents” which was nicely attended by GMs and trade companions of the Phuket Hotel Association.
In the programme, Simon and John mentioned the course that training is heading in and how employers can have interaction with schooling providers, like Dusit Thani College to equip and encourage school and college students with the newest trends and innovations in hospitality. The session additionally highlighted the potential opportunities for hospitality operators to secure a sustainable skilled workforce while on the identical time, delivering significant impacts to the communities inside which they function.
The presentation was enhanced by a panel of Dusit Thani College students from the Professional Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management programs who shared their opinions of why they chose to check hospitality, what career they’re on the lookout for and what they look for in future employers which was properly acquired by the viewers. Afterwards, Hilarious ended with an info session for the new Dusit Hospitality Academy, a skill-based, short-course coaching program designed to deliver real-world sensible expertise and data to enable career starters, switchers or climbers to hitch or advance within the hospitality industry.
Simon and Jogn additionally participated in and led discussions with college students and youth from Phuket faculties and universities hosted by Lecturers from Prince of Songkla University. They inspired young students to brainstorm ideas on how they will bring extra sustainable practices to motels on Phuket Island.
In addition to the workshop, Simon and John networked with hospitality firms, healthcare providers and world organizations such as the World Travel and Tourism Council and PATA to further build the College’s connections with the broader hospitality business and to make different collaborations in the future.
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