What can an intern bring to a hotel?
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 8:57 am
Andres Romero
CEO and Project Manager
May 10, 2017
On the one hand, having a student means having additional work to do on top of your daily work. You have to instruct him and explain to him how the hotel team works. On the other hand, a student offers advantages. That is why you have to ask yourself: Is it worth employing a tourism student as an intern in your hotel? Here I will give you my impression as an intern of what advantages we could offer you:
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1 What can a tourism student bring to your hotel?
2 How can an Erasmus student change your view of your destination?
3 Earn more money thanks to an Erasmus student?
What can a tourism student bring to your hotel?
First of all, the student comes with a lot of up-to-date technical knowledge about the latest developments in the industry . If your hotel staff are not sufficiently retrained, they will certainly be able to benefit from the opinions, knowledge and new methods that students bring back from university. Especially, it is georgia email address the small hotels that can benefit the most from this information. For example, many independent hotels that compete with large hotels are still not using new tools that help them improve their competitive advantage. The implementation of a system such as RMS can offer a great competitive advantage. Here you can read 6 reasons to use an RMS in your independent hotel .
Students already learn about the importance of RMS, HRS, PMS etc. at their university.
Secondly, the intern comes (in principle) with motivation and enthusiasm . They are more open to change than employees who are used to their fixed processes and often do not want to change their way of working. An example from a friend of mine: This girl worked as an intern in a luxury hotel, where she supposedly had many years of experience. However, there were some flaws in the daily work that no one noticed. The breakfast management provided by the catering department was inefficient and her external view favored the improvement of the service.
Thirdly, the student comes with a fresh perspective from outside the hotel. A hotel is a team that works together. On the one hand, this makes daily work easier, but on the other hand, it sometimes prevents errors from being noticed. In daily work, there is no time to reflect on the processes. An intern is not yet familiar with the processes in the hotel and can detect possible errors. On the other hand, the student can be realistic about the day-to-day running of the hotel and can identify these errors, since they have no formal connection with the hotel.
How can an Erasmus student change your view of your destination?
Employing an Erasmus student could be another competitive advantage, as it can help change the perception that is established with the destination. A foreign student arrives at his hotel with almost the same perception as a tourist. Having a person from the home team of one of our potential markets will allow us to start to plan strategies for certain markets. Looking at the following graph you can get an idea of the approach that can be obtained from an Erasmus student in relation to the approach of a traveler.
CEO and Project Manager
May 10, 2017
On the one hand, having a student means having additional work to do on top of your daily work. You have to instruct him and explain to him how the hotel team works. On the other hand, a student offers advantages. That is why you have to ask yourself: Is it worth employing a tourism student as an intern in your hotel? Here I will give you my impression as an intern of what advantages we could offer you:
Table of Contents [ Hide ]
1 What can a tourism student bring to your hotel?
2 How can an Erasmus student change your view of your destination?
3 Earn more money thanks to an Erasmus student?
What can a tourism student bring to your hotel?
First of all, the student comes with a lot of up-to-date technical knowledge about the latest developments in the industry . If your hotel staff are not sufficiently retrained, they will certainly be able to benefit from the opinions, knowledge and new methods that students bring back from university. Especially, it is georgia email address the small hotels that can benefit the most from this information. For example, many independent hotels that compete with large hotels are still not using new tools that help them improve their competitive advantage. The implementation of a system such as RMS can offer a great competitive advantage. Here you can read 6 reasons to use an RMS in your independent hotel .
Students already learn about the importance of RMS, HRS, PMS etc. at their university.
Secondly, the intern comes (in principle) with motivation and enthusiasm . They are more open to change than employees who are used to their fixed processes and often do not want to change their way of working. An example from a friend of mine: This girl worked as an intern in a luxury hotel, where she supposedly had many years of experience. However, there were some flaws in the daily work that no one noticed. The breakfast management provided by the catering department was inefficient and her external view favored the improvement of the service.
Thirdly, the student comes with a fresh perspective from outside the hotel. A hotel is a team that works together. On the one hand, this makes daily work easier, but on the other hand, it sometimes prevents errors from being noticed. In daily work, there is no time to reflect on the processes. An intern is not yet familiar with the processes in the hotel and can detect possible errors. On the other hand, the student can be realistic about the day-to-day running of the hotel and can identify these errors, since they have no formal connection with the hotel.
How can an Erasmus student change your view of your destination?
Employing an Erasmus student could be another competitive advantage, as it can help change the perception that is established with the destination. A foreign student arrives at his hotel with almost the same perception as a tourist. Having a person from the home team of one of our potential markets will allow us to start to plan strategies for certain markets. Looking at the following graph you can get an idea of the approach that can be obtained from an Erasmus student in relation to the approach of a traveler.