HOTEL MANAGEMENT at KHBO Lode Vanwildemeersch Dany De Wispelaere

Location

Bruges: facts and figures Situated in Flanders – the Dutch speaking part of Belgium Capital of the province of West-Vlaanderen Number of inhabitants: – Inner city: 25,000 – City and city surroundings: 117,000 – 844 inh/sq km

Major industries: – Tourism – Harbour activities

Tourism (2006): – Turnover: approx. 280 million euro – 4,000,000 tourists (national and international) – 1,250,000 guests stay overnight – 75% of these 1,250,000 guests are summer guests – Total lodging capacity: over 9,600 beds – Average stay: approx 1.8 nights

Tourism (2006): – Remarkable: Almost 90% of the hotelguests have a purely recreational purpose, only 10% can be labeled as business guests (MICE/business) – Today 112 hotels with approx. 3,200 rooms – 38% are ***-hotels & 27% are ****-hotels

Tourism:

Harbour activities (2006): – 39,300,000 tons of goods and commodities a year – Major trafic: containers (18 million tons), cars (1,930,000: world leader) and liquified bulk (especially LNG) (6,300,000 tons) – A constant rise in the number of cruise ships (2006: 54 ships). All these ships have Bruges on the agenda.

Bruges: renowned secondary hotel schools Hotel and Tourism School « Spermalie » and «Ter Groene Poorte » have a tremendous reputation and guarantee quality on a secondary education level The higher education of hotel management at KHBO works closely together with these renowned partners

Bruges: hotel management at KHBO (19 academic years): 522 graduates Sufficient jobs for the graduates Increasing number of jobs in the catering business The graduates also find jobs in supplying and related sectors and other sectors Six months after graduation almost 100% of the graduates have a job One year after graduation all graduates are employed = full employment

Your future after having studied hotel management Wim De Wulf Jan Vandekerckhove Dany De Wispelaere

Introduction Examined period: – 19 academic years Examined group in 2006: 522 qualified

Partition as to gender (1) Stable ratio throughout the years

Geographical spread (1)

Geographical spread (2) Majority stays in Belgium: 88.9% – Flanders: 76.5% – Brussels: 10.6% International institutes – Wallonia: 1.9% Europe: 8.7% Rest of the World: 2.4%

Employment sectors (1) Majority in hotel and related business: 55.3% – Hotel sector: 36.8% – Restaurant: 11.9% – Supplying: 4.2% – Related: 2.4% Other sectors: 44.7% (e.g. distribution, forwarding, employment agencies, banking and insurance, education, informatics, continue studies, etc.)

So:the training is sufficiently practical AND sufficiently all-round Employment sectors (2) VERSATILITY

Partition in the hotel business 91% as an employee – 71% in chain hotels – 20% in stand-alone hotels 9% as a proprietor

Reception & reservations: 36.0% All round duties: 20.9% Sales & marketing/guest relations: 9.4% Banqueting & conference: 9.4% F&B/cost control: 15.1% Positions practised in the hotel business They account for 90.6%

Night audit and secretarial duties/personnel: 2.1% Accounting: 1.4% Housekeeping/rooms division: 3.6% Other: 2.2% Positions practised in the hotel business (2)

Qualifications Majority have managerial duties: 67.6% Employee: 32.4% Higher and top management: 25.2%

The leading positions have an excellent average (middle management: 42.4%, higher management: 7.2% and top management: 18.0%) 8.7% have their own business Qualifications (2)

Conclusions (1) There are slightly more female graduates Most graduates work in Belgium (88.9%) More than half of the graduates works in the catering and hospitality business or a related business

Working as an employee in a chain hotel in the hotel sector takes an important position Some choose to set up their own business, not all of them in the hotel sector Initially our graduates hold a broad range of hotel positions with reception & reservations as the number one position Conclusions (2)

Pretty soon they take up middle management responsibility A majority of graduates have managerial duties Lots of other sectors appreciate the know-how and versatility of our graduates Conclusions (3)

Every year consists of two semesters and every semester stands alone The number of contacts between teachers and students gradually decreases from year 1 to year 3 The importance of self-study, self-reliance,… increases from year 1 to year 3 Complying with the European bachelor-master directives Equilibrium among practice, languages and management subjects A high reality quality of the training Offer a high degree of student coaching Student’s participation Basic principles of our education

Work placement & management case 1st year: a 1 week programme in a small hotel (2nd semester) 2nd year: practical internal work placement of 6 weeks in the 2nd half of the 1st semester + work placement assignment 3rd year: work placement, mostly abroad, of 20 weeks + management case linked to the hotel where the student is staying

External partners There is a powerful and extensive network of external partners, from hotel schools to trainee posts, and many have an international character

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