Tourism is avid for technical staff

Languages are of concern to the hoteliers
in Dominican Republic the lack of technicians in the hotel industry has become one of the main difficulties of industry tourism.

There is concern because tourist country education focused primarily in the area of management, while the market is demanding more and more technicians.

The observations also relate that each tourist pole demands a certain professional.

An employee of the hotel a destination ecotourism than another whose work her plays in Santo Domingo or type hotel is not the same resort.

Vice President of the National Association of hotels and tourism (Asonahores), Arturo Villanueva, and the Chairman of the subsidiary North, most churches, as well as group Puntacana, Frank Rainieri; President of Puerto Bahia, Juan Bancalari, and of the Association of hotels in Santo Domingo, Roberto HENRIQUEZ, also u000athe President of the draft forest Quintas, José Roberto Hernández; Viva Windham Resorts, white Rafael Canto and of Hispaniola ecotourism bag (Behsa), Eduardo Díaz Franjul, agree that the tourist sector faces difficulties to the employment of staff qualified to exercise level positions means.

Shortcomings
Frank Rainieri is one of the main weaknesses of graduates of tourism schools lack of mastery of languages, especially English, despite the fact that 99% of tourists visiting the country does not speak Spanish.

He pointed out that there is a high demand for people that fluent in French, German, Russian and Portuguese.

Also said that students must spend more hours of practice before graduation, for which he suggested that universities strengthen agreements with hotels to improve the quality of the internship because young people are optimizing with a level of experience very u000aBAS.

"I have the opinion that the students should do a break of six months to enter into a hotel and meet completely the work.

This also allows them to identify the area of the hotel that you want to devote", emphasized Rainieri.

The employer recognized that the concentration of the majority of universities in the city of Santo Domingo is a barrier to the development of internship programmes because the tourism industry is basically developed outside that city.

Rainieri noted it is fundamental to climbing step by step because the work in this sector requires much experience in areas of services such as tourism. "If there is a poll at the global level, the majority of the heads of food and drink are, more than, technical professionals which have been rising on the stairs", said.

Given the diversity of areas covering the race hotel and tourism, the Vice-President of the Asonahores, u000aArturo Villanueva, urged the universities to create guidance programmes which students have one idea more holistic view of the different industrial fields that fall within that industry and what its projection for the future by choosing career.

The official described as worrying in a country where tourism is one of the most important in the economy, sectors technical training Institute (Infotep) Professional presents a range of diversified skills-training in the area tourist.

"The biggest problem of the sector is that we are forming many generals and we have forgotten to train the troops," expressed.

In that regard, Rainieri emphasized the need for increased academic offerings for training chefs, staff reception, waiters, congressmen, as well as mechanics, electricians and plumbers prepared to work in hotels.

To the President of Viva Windham Resorts, Rafael u000aWhite singing, the sector faces difficulties in recruiting personnel in areas of maintenance and specialists in treatment of sewage waste and recycling waste solids.

Each pole demand particular competencies

Most of hotels and tourist operators agree that school of tourism of the country are forming good professionals in the area management.

However, the Group Puntacana, Frank Rainieri, President said that there has been a consistency in the quality of the graduates to establish a difference between one and another university students, or between different promotions of a single entity. "There are promotions which are very good because they have had a good teacher and other years in which at the same University standards have not been the same".

Arturo Villanueva, of Asonahores, however, considered that the country has universities u000aadequate, diverse and plan very complete to form good professionals.

El businessman appreciated the concern of the universities to adapt their curriculum to the demands of the industry and noted that institutions such as the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre Maestra (PUCMM), the Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe) and Unapec have flirted with hoteliers to discuss programs of study.

The President of Viva Windham Resorts, Rafael Blanco singing, coincided with Villanueva when tourism schools graduates have the necessary basis for inserted and pursue a career in the hotel, companies and these in turn have pledged to support the curriculum of the different universities.

He stressed that many persons trained in the country dealing with tourism in overseas management positions

However, the businessman said that Dominican Republic has failed to build a career level u000aworld in the dining area, through the formation of Dominican chefs to raise the quality of the Creole food at the height of the gastronomy Peruvian, Cuban and Mexican, not to mention the European.

In an effort to cover this demand of the market, Unapec and the PUCMM have divided the academic offerings of the career of tourist management and hotel marketing hotelier and food and beverages.

Also, the PUCMM has been teaching for several years that a diploma in art culinary.

Demands of the Poles
the President of the Association of hotels in Santo Domingo, Roberto HENRIQUEZ, argued that many of the graduates of tourism schools deficiencies in their knowledge of history and Dominican, culture which is essential for promoting tourism in the city Primada de America.

Henríquez suggested to the Ministry of tourism, the implementation of a training programme for taxi drivers - guides u000ato make tourists well informed during his tour of the city.

The President of the real estate resort Puertó Bay, Juan Bancalari, expressed the difficulties that present the hoteliers of Samana to find staff for administrative in this province, areas it is necessary to move people from Santo Domingo and other large cities.

The President of the bag ecotourism Hispaniola, Eduardo Díaz Franjul, pointed out that the situation is similar in the tourist of pole Barahona.

Díaz Franjul emphasizes also the importance of strengthening training ecotourism development of destinations like Barahona, Pedernales, Constanza, Jarabacoa and Rio San Juan.

The President of the real estate tourist complex forest Quintas in Jarabacoa, José Roberto Hernández, coincides with Díaz Franjul and suggests that the country provided a master's degree or specialization in ecotourism.

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Academic offer of u000aSchool of tourism
La Universidad Católica Santo Domingo has segmented the Administration tourist and Hotel Administration career while the Unphu and only Unicaribe offer the last choice.

The University Dominican O & M, Universidad Centro Cultural Dominico Americano (Unicda) and Unibe offer the race administration Tutística and hotel form general.

La Universidad Autónoma Santo Domingo offers only a technician in administration of tourist services, which are studied in four semesters and the Unphu offers the option to get a qualification of technician in Hotel Administration in a year and a half.

The Infotep has only an academic offerings focused on the specialization technical outside the area of managerial and administrative.

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