Nabídka stáže pro absolventy - Rakousko

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, BestRako 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): 01/05/2011
• Starting date (latest possible): 01/07/2011
• 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, (Applied) Economics or Leisure Studies
• Skills within hotel & tourism industry
• Good command of German (verbal and written)
• English desired – not required
• 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).

Note: beside possible financial support and/or contribution in kind provided by the host organisation, the selected candidate shall receive a Leonardo da Vinci grant. The grant shall be allocated in the max. amount of up to a 4-month scholarship (monthly rate being max. 600 EUR).

Please send your application documents (CV and cover letter in German language) to info(at)edutrain.cz at least one month before the planned start.

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