Workshop Description:

Excelixi has designed and implements one more pioneering educational program for owners and executives of hotel units, combining the principles of Project Management with hotel business· the Project Management for Hospitality.

Within 12 hours of education, theory, practical knowledge and Project management tools are analyzed, in order for hotel unit managers to improve their skills in selecting, planning and implementing successful projects in their hotel businesses· projects that meet the requirements regarding time, cost and their initial standards.

Hotel owners or managers are, nowadays, charged with the responsibility of monitoring the hotel on a daily basis, as well as with individual projects concerning upgrading, reorganizing, providing and promoting new services. By following the key principles of Project Management, they will be able to effectively manage smaller or larger projects, having as final aim to improve their business competitiveness.

The training program is implemented with the support of Piraeus Bank Group, in the context of Piraeus Tourism 360o, an integrated service package for small-and medium-sized tourism enterprises.  

Piraeus Bank has ensured special pricing for its customers.

Aim and Purpose

The program aims at providing the key principles, practical knowledge and tools of Project Management, in order for hotel unit owners or managers to improve their skills in selecting, planning and implementing successful projects in their hotel businesses• projects that meet the requirements regarding time, cost and their initial standards.

After understanding the key principles of Project Management, participants will be called to implement them in realistic project examples regarding the hotel sector. Upon completion of the educational program, they will have in their hands practical tools that they will be able to use in performing the projects they are called to implement.

Benefits

Through the key principles of project management, participants will be able to: 

•  Effectively analyze, design, organize, plan, manage, control and correct their projects
• Split a project into smaller parts, so as to monitor it more effectively
• Set assessment criteria for their contractors/associates before concluding any agreement, in order to enter into agreements that ensure the project’s interest.
• Evaluate and control their associate in case they choose to assign a project to a third party
• Effectively prepare and monitor the project time schedule and budget
• Trace and deal with any potential risks, before these lead to the project’s failure

Target Audience

• Owners and executives of Hotel units and accommodations
• Employees in the tourism sector who wish to develop their professional skills
• Graduates of the financial sector who are already employed or wish to work in the hotel management sector.

 Brief program

Project Initiation and Planning

• Familiarizing with key terms, tools and best practices
• Project selection techniques based on the total ownership cost (Construction cost + maintenance cost)
• Understanding what “successful project” means
• Degradation of the project into smaller deliverables with the creation of the WBS
• Project costing and  time schedule preparation techniques
• Techniques and definition of the deliverables acceptance criteria (quantitative and qualitative)
• Selecting what we do on our own and what we will buy from the market
• Techniques for the supplier selection and the adequate goods and services contract

Project Implementation and Monitoring

• Project development monitoring techniques
• Criteria for deciding acceptance or non-acceptance of the project deliverables

Project Closure 

Cost of program

Piraeus Bank has ensured special pricing for its customers.

€320 Initial Price

€150 for Piraeus Bank customers

€100 for Piraeus Tourism 360o customers

Means of payment - reimbursement:

• Deposit or Transmittance
• Credit Card

• Duration: 12 hours