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Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project consists of participants who receive education oriented for food, drink, travel and accommodation in institutions; Vehbi Koç Vakfı Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School, Köyceğiz Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School, Gerze Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School, Çanakkale Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School, Şişli Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High Schooland Kırşehir Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School. 10 students from each institution, totally 60 students, will be participants who will take part in placement activities. Their ages range between 16 and 18. Since they are not of full legal age, 1 teacher from each institution, totally 6 people, will accompany to students. Companions, who will be selected among teachers and administrative staff, will help to students’ vocational and social needs, take part in monitoring activities and be with groups. As our project participants need to have a certain professional experience at the fields for which they receive training for placement, they will be selected among the students at 11th and 12th grades. Our participants, who mainly take classes in their fields and branches during their academic training, obtain professional skills in food production, cooking and patisserie organizations at the kitchen branch, service preparations, open buffet and guest table arrangements at the service branch. However, our participants, who cannot develop their abilities and qualifications for communicating with different cultures in an efficient manner and for having dialog among the cultures, which is the most important skill for their employment in the field of tourism, fail to be employed a their own fields. Additionally, sector’s busy activity because of the existence of many hotels and hotel chains in İstanbul, Muğla, Sinop, Çanakkale and Kırşehir that our participants are chosen, sector cannot find the qualified personnel to employ. As the tourism in our country develops continuously, which is one of the most important sources of income for our country, Turkey is named as “heaven for tourism”, and its rise in the tourism sector has stability. Thanks to its geographical location, Turkey has various tourism opportunities and has become a point of attraction for tourists. Due to the increasing demand, qualified staff is required for the tourism sector and the demand cannot be simply met only with the graduates of vocational high schools in Turkey. The sector tries to bridge the gap in demand with the seasonal staff which brings about the problem of low prestige and business volume due to unqualified staff in the field of tourism. With our project, demands and requirements of our participants and the sector are analyzed, and placement activities were planned for allowing them to obtain mainly experience in the application, skills for multicultural dialog, and linguistic and social abilities. In this scope, our participant groups will have a two-week internship at the institutions and on dates listed below: for Vehbi Koç Vakfı Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School between the dates of 23.11.2014 and 07.12.2014 at Lust Culinair Genieten, for Köyceğiz Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School between the dates of 01.02.2015 and 15.02.2015 at Betreibergesellschaft der Fachakademie DEHOGA S-A mbH, for Gerze Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School between the dates of 01.03.2015 and 15.03.2015 at ROC Top Amsterdam, for Çanakkale Management and Tourism Vocational High School between the dates of 10.04.2015 and 24.04.2015 at Betreibergesellschaft der Fachakademie DEHOGA S-A mbH, for Şişli Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School between the dates of 03.05.2015 and 17.05.2015 and for Kırşehir Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School between the dates of 17.05.2015 and 31.05.2015 at Edukacja Sp. zo.o.
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