HOLIDAYS INN EXPRESS PARTNERS WITH READING IS FUNDAMENTAL TO PROMOTE A SMART START IN EDUCATION

http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4030777.html

WHAT A GREAT IDEA... GUESTS ARE ABLE TO HELP CHILDREN IN THE WORLD TO GET THE LANGUAGE SKILLS!!!

Holiday Inn Express is partnering with a non-profit children's literacy organization called "Reading is Fundamental" to help children from birth to the age of 8 to have language skills to succeed in school and life.

How? To put books and literacy resources in the hands of children, Holidays Inn Express and "Reading is Fundamental" have created a website "www.hiexpress.com /rif" where guests can book their rooms in the 1700 properties of Holiday Inn Express Worldwide until the end of the year and donate at the same time! Meaning that everytime a guest book a room, RIF receives 9% of the consumed room rate.

Plus, Holidays Inn Express is going to commit to raise $1000 per hotel by engaging their staff and the local communities in unique ways such as hosting book readings parties to enable local communities to purchase new books and literacy resources and will benefit RIF.

Holiday Inn Express is also going to partner with Scholastic, the most famous publishing company to distribute thousand of books to RIF programs.

This partnership between Holiday Inn Express and RIF is a great idea as far as guests are part of it without having the expression of giving so much. It is a really meaningful cause because many children don't have the chance to go to school because of the lack of money of their parents. Better partnerships couldn't be found anywhere else!

If one of you is travelling please think about this link!

Cornell Study Identifies Training Followups that Boost Effectiveness

http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4030731.html

Hotels and restaurants companies spend money on classroom trainings for new managers but the problem is that managers-trainees will forget their new skills before using them. Cornwell shows that interventions can be as good as classrooms and even cheapest!

M.J Tews and J.B Tacey tested 2 new systems: the self-coaching and feedbacks.

Self-coaching is using a workbook containing self-assessments.

Feedbacks provides trainees with formal, written feedbacks on their interpersonal skills.

I think that companies providing classes is great but they managers should also take more time explaining the job correctly to their new trainees! It takes time to learn a new job and it is not easy... Sometimes managers give us the bible of the company without spending time reading it with us or telling us what is important to know! So...classes for who? Managers themselves or trainees?

Studies show that both approaches may be a good extension to formal classroom trainings.

Both self-coaching and feedback from subordinates improve the managers trainees but when they are used together with classroom trainings, it is even better!

Even expensive, it's worth it taken one class. People were able to show to their subordinates how they could be stronger on their jobs.

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BOUTIQUE HOTELS: VIVE LA DIFFERENCE!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1597252,00.html

Chain of hotels became famous in the mid 20th century... Clients could found the same hotel room everywhere they were going via Hilton, Holidays Inn... WHAT A SHAME! Staying in the same type of room, sleeping in the same linens, same bathroom with the same horrible beauty products...(brrr)! but for travellers scared of what they are gonna get in Melbourne coming from US... it is maybe better to think like that.

Today, the new tendance is...

BOUTIQUE HOTELS! The new fashion places to stay and the best according to journalists... Is it the same kind of concepts? Kind of... You know what to expect! Very modern furniture, great flower decorations... great restaurant making the same menus with this new tendance: "lemongrass flavor"; the bar area is the same: same cocktails everywhere, same music... hummmm... isn't it what happen to the chain of hotels? Boutique hotels is a great concept however all look approximatively the same (of course they have the same designer). The problem is that all travel publishers and style profesionnals talk about the boutique hotels as the best places to be or to seen! They are the IDEALOGUES of the boutique hotels! But you have to understand that experience a night in a boutique hotel is not experiencing the city at all (not as if you were staying in a B&B for example).

Travelling is not being seen but experience things!