Leonardo da Vinci training placement offer

Host organisation: Best Western Hotelreservierungs, Vienna, Austria

Best Western International is THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOTEL CHAIN® and the hotel industry's largest single brand, providing marketing and reservations to over 4,000 private Best Western, Best Western Plus(TM) and Best Western Premier® (premium class) in 80 countries. Hosting 400,000 guests each night, Best Western hotels combine international standards with individual flair and heartfelt hospitality.

Best Western Hotelreservierungs/Best Western Central Europe as a regional affiliate and service group attends to over 70 hotels in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

Local and temporal specification of the placement:

Division/Department: Sales, Marketing, Member Service, Acquisition

Starting date (earliest possible): 01/09/2010

Starting date (latest possible): 01/10/2010

Duration: 5 – 6 months

Working hours: 40/week

Training content (activities / tasks):

• General familiarisation training – collateral, manuals, systems, organisation structure, marketing & sales programmes

• Data search on tourism and economy of all nine countries for annual business plan

• Research of potential partners for specific target group marketing in CEE countries

• Press work – update of PR database via phone calls, translation of press releases

• Member acquisition follow-up – contacting potential members and explaining the advantages of Best Western Membership

• Graphic layout according to BI standards of acquisition brochure in Czech and Slovak language

• Update and translation of Front Office Manual for hotel employees

• Tele-Sales – update of customer database via phone-calls, evaluation of potential, offer of corporate contracts incl. follow-up, personal sales calls with sales manager

• Control, update and improvement of hotel website in three languages in cooperation with hotels´ management

• Research of various key word options for all 67 hotels for Search Engine optimisation

• Reservation system control – Control of hotels´ rate parity on various booking platforms via meta search engines

Required profile of the candidates:

• University graduates in Hotel- &/ Tourism Management

• Skills within hotel & tourism industry

• German or English communication skills (verbal and written)

• Computer literacy (Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet, Email, ..)

Further, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Graduates of Palacky University in Olomouc, Moravian College Olomouc, Tomas Bata University in Zlin or other higher education institution having its registered office in the Middle Moravia region

• Date of graduation: no more than 1,5 year ago

• You have not carried out a Leonardo da Vinci placement, mobility of people in the labour market (PLM) yet

• Permanent residence or perspective employment in the region is advantage

Remuneration:

• financial support - - EUR /month

• contribution in kind (e.g. accommodation, public transport, meals etc.) – in the value of 50 EUR /month (monthly public transport card).

Please send your application documents (CV and cover letter in English/German language) to marie.rakova@edutrain.cz by 31/08/2010.

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