German hotel school ‘twins’ set to arrive |27 February 2010

The group from the hotel school of the Berufsbildende Schulen Cuxhaven also includes senior officials, who will pay a courtesy call on the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) at its Bel Ombre headquarters on Tuesday.

The visit follows the signing last year of a memorandum of understanding for the twinning programme between the Cuxhaven college and the STA.

The programme gives Seychellois and German students international work exposure of between two weeks and three months.  Management and lecturers of the STA and the Cuxhaven college also benefit from exchanging knowledge and facilities.

The German delegation includes the college principal Dr Ulrich Getsch, who signed the agreement with the STA, senior lecturer and exchange coordinator Axel Novy and head chef Stefan Brandes.

“We are happy to have the three Cuxhaven officials here to visit. It is proof of the good working partnership between the two hotel schools,” said STA principal Flavien Joubert.

“As for the arrival of the eight students, it shows that the twinning programme is running well and going according to plan.”

The eight students, who are in the second and third years of their management training, will have work attachments in several hotels across Seychelles.

Meanwhile, the college officials will enjoy a one-week stay, including a guided tour of Mahe, and will attend various meetings on Mahe, Praslin and Silhouette.

At the STB they will meet its chairman Maurice Loustau-Lalanne and his general manager for tourism development Peter Moncherry, as well as Mr Joubert and Terrence Max, also from the STA.