Hotel Management School

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Practicing serving in the hotel management school in Heidelberg , 1952, (relocation to Weinheim Castle due to the war )

Hotel management schools ( Hofa for short ) are state and private educational institutions that have specialized in hotel management. Hotel management schools are not to be confused with hotel schools . All well-known hotel management schools nowadays assume that their participants have already mastered the operational activities and concentrate on administrative activities in management such as financing, business start-ups and personnel management.

Germany

State hotel management schools

Practicing covering , 1952

State hotel management schools are state approved as well as financed by public funds and offer a state qualification according to state law (with a title similar to "Staatlich certified ... / Staatlich certified ...").

“ Technical schools [in North Rhine-Westphalia] are institutions for professional development. Technical schools build on initial vocational training and professional experience (post-secondary training): They offer full-time or part-time (part-time) professional training with a state-certified professional qualification. Technical schools develop in accordance with the growing qualification requirements. They deepen and expand technical and general education on a propaedeutic basis and thus enable the acquisition of general educational qualifications. "

Admission requirements for hotel management schools are usually a middle school leaving certificate (secondary level I degree), completed training in the hotel and restaurant industry and a subsequent at least one year of practical experience. Deviations are possible from state to state. Bavaria is satisfied with a secondary school leaving certificate.

The graduate of a state hotel management school does not pay any course or course fees, but receives further training from public funds. While public schools are usually fee paying schools (except Heidelberg), but it may apply so-called material costs are among other things for the "co-payment" for textbooks, practical subjects etc. his living, he pays out of the master-student loans or income employment. There are organized job placements for pupils at almost all school locations. Further funding is possible through the Employment Agency, the employers' liability insurance association, pension insurance, gifted students or the German Armed Forces. The largest hotel management schools in Germany include Heidelberg (approx. 500 students) and Dortmund, the smaller Pegnitz and Südliche Weinstrasse in Edenkoben (approx. 80 students).

Private hotel management schools

The course participants pay for their training themselves to a large extent, even if they are offered the master student loan as financing for the training. The costs for this amount to up to 500 euros per month. The schools are subject to competition and also offer funding to the participants in their courses.

Qualification in the hotel management school

• State-certified business economist for the hotel and catering industry
• State-certified operations manager, specializing in hotels and restaurants (commercial training)
• University entrance qualification

The qualification from a German hotel management school is equivalent to the Bachelor (level 6) according to the German or European qualification framework .

The training period for all technical schools in Germany is usually two years, but can be shortened if the work already done is taken into account. The compulsory instruction for students in all federal states is usually 2400 hours of instruction. Lessons are modularized in almost all federal states. In North Rhine-Westphalia the timetable is still broken down into learning areas and subjects. It comprises the cross-disciplinary and subject-related learning area with project work and the differentiation area.

An exception is the one-year technical school, which runs partly as a school trial (Baden-Württemberg) and partly as a one-year regular technical school. As a rule, it prepares students for the master craftsman's examination in the hospitality industry and, among other things, the trainer aptitude test (e.g. Heidelberg Hotel Management School ).

In 2015, the German Hotel and Restaurant Association identified around 30 hotel management schools in Germany that train slightly fewer than 1,000 hotel business administrators per year.

Switzerland

Some of the Swiss hotel management schools are set up completely differently and, at least in the French-speaking part, are not based on a completed vocational training. They are used for initial vocational training in the manner of French hotel management schools.

• Hotel Management School Thun
• SSTH, Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality
• Hotel Management School Lausanne

Swiss hotel management schools are higher technical schools       and are accordingly assigned to higher vocational training .

The Lausanne Hotel Management School is a federally recognized university of applied sciences. Other educational providers are classified as private universities .

France

In France, training for the hotel industry takes place only to a limited extent as dual training . Mainly full-time instruction is given in schools, accompanied by internships in companies. The German hotel management school is closest to the BTS hotel industry. The higher vocational school for hotel management (e.g. Südliche Weinstrasse) could be described as a German variant of this BTS. Well-known state schools can be found in Illkirch (Strasbourg), Toulouse or Chateau-Chinon. Private institutes are e.g. B. the Vatel Institute with several locations in France.

Related educational institutions

In addition to hotel management schools, universities have also become increasingly important in the hotel industry in recent years. A distinction must be made between the dual universities (e.g. DHBW in Baden-Württemberg ), where the student always has a training contract with a hotel, and the former universities of applied sciences (e.g. Munich , Wilhelmshaven). They regularly graduate with a bachelor's degree. In addition to these state institutions, there are a large number of private universities that focus on the hotel industry. Here the semester fees are around 3000 €. Some hotel management schools also cooperate with these universities in order to enable their graduates to obtain a Bachelor's degree.

Two to three-year educational institutions such as the higher vocational school for hotel management (Edenkoben, Leipzig and comparable Saarbrücken), which have the same requirements as the universities, take a different route .

Alternatively, there are master courses (kitchen, restaurant and hotel master) such as in Heidelberg.

Web links

Germany

• List of hotel management schools. In: hotelfach.de
• List with description of 5 hotel management schools. In: hotelfachschulen.hotel-intern.de
• Policies and Curricula • School of Nutrition and Supply Management. In: Berufsbildung NRW , August 9, 2018

Switzerland

• Video: To be continued: Hotel Management School. In: Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), April 20, 2012, 41:03 min.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guidelines and curricula for the vocational college in North Rhine-Westphalia: Fachschule für Wirtschaft, specializing in the hotel and restaurant industry In: Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , July 7, 2014, accessed on January 13, 2019, (PDF; 50 S., 8.3 MB), p. 11.
2. ↑ Operations manager - hotel / restaurants. In: Appointed by the Federal Employment Agency , accessed on January 13, 2019.
3. ↑ Modules / learning areas. In: Hotel Management School Südliche Weinstraße (Hotel Management School SÜW) in Edenkoben , accessed on January 13, 2019.
4. ↑ Framework lesson tables for the technical schools. In: Berufsbildung NRW , June 14, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2019.
5. ↑ Master in the hospitality industry. In: Hotel Management School Heidelberg , accessed on January 13, 2019.
6. ^ Brit Glocke: Hotel management schools offer new qualifications. In: Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung , 23 August 2015, only beginning of article, reference point.
7. ↑ HF course. In: Swiss Hotel Management School Lucerne (SHL), accessed on January 13, 2019.
8. ↑ Hotel Management School Zurich. In: Belvoirpark Hotel Management School Zurich , accessed on January 13, 2019.
9. ↑ Étudier à l'École hôtelière. In: École Hôtelière Genève , (French), accessed on January 13, 2019.
10. ↑ Company - Facts & Figures. In: Hotel Management School Thun , accessed on January 13, 2019.
11. ↑ Welcome. In: Scuola superiore alberghiera e del turismo (SSAT) in Bellinzona , Ticino, (English).
12. ↑ Bachelor of Science HES-SO in Hotel Industry (Hospitality Management). In: Hotel Management School Lausanne / University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland , accessed on January 13, 2019.
13. ↑ Formations en hôtellerie. S'ouvrir au monde et réussir. In: Groupe Vatel , (French), accessed January 13, 2019.
14. ↑ Master chef, restaurant master, hotel manager in the specialist school for gastronomy. In: Hotel Management School Heidelberg , accessed on January 13, 2019.