Tourism schools in Salzburg

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Tourism schools in Salzburg-Klessheim

The Salzburg Tourism Schools are training centers for professions in the hotel and hospitality industry as well as for professions in tourism in general. They are owned by the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce.

history

The history of tourism schools began with a hotel management course in 1945. Then the training was divided in hospitality schools and hotel management schools. The latter were later divided again into different training directions. After the end of the Second World War , a hotel management course was founded in Mattsee . In 1946, the Chamber of Commerce (today Salzburg Chamber of Commerce, WKS) took over the school maintenance. In the same year the hotel management course was recognized by the Ministry of Education as a two-year technical school with public rights. The school days were recognized in 1946 as a completed apprenticeship as a cook and waiter. The school was named "Salzburg Hotel Management School".

In June 1949 the "Salzburg Hotel Management School Association" was founded, and in 2003 the name was changed to "Salzburg Tourism School Association". In 2014 the association was converted into a GmbH under the name "Tourismusschulen Salzburg GmbH". Training centers are operated in Bad Hofgastein , Bischofshofen , Bramberg am Wildkogel and Klessheim . The Bad Hofgastein and Klessheim locations also offer the option of boarding school.

Bad Hofgastein location

In autumn 1948 the school moved to Bad Gastein , where, after a transition phase, it was housed in the state's own bathing hospital and in the House of the Red Cross in the Hotel Weismayr. With the acquisition of the Grand Park Hotel (Alpenhaus Gasteinertal) by the WKS in 1953, the company moved to Bad Hofgastein . Since then, various extensions, general renovations and new buildings have taken place. The school has a boarding school for boys and girls.

The training company at the Bad Hofgasteig location includes a five-year higher education institution for tourism with a focus on "Hotel Management and Health Tourism". In 2012, a start was made on expanding the range of training courses in the area of ​​health with special offers relating to the Gastein thermal water and the radon tunnel in the Gastein Valley. The “Schoolchildren run a hotel” campaign has been held at the Grand Park Hotel every year since 2010. The duration of the training is 5 years and ends with the completion of the matriculation and diploma examination, full university entrance qualification (general university entrance qualification / Matura ), professional qualification as well as business license for hotel, catering and travel agency.

The duration of the training in the ski hotel management school of the Höhere Lehranstalt für Tourismus und Ski is 6 years and ends with the completion of the matriculation and diploma examination, full university entrance qualification (general university entrance qualification / Matura), professional qualification as well as business license for hotel, catering and travel agency. Well-known graduates of the ski hotel management school are Anna Fenninger , Marcel Hirscher and Max Franz .

The "Culinary Master Class" offers training as a cook based on a concept developed together with Andreas Döllerer . This apprenticeship lasts 3 years and ends with the qualifications diploma hotel clerk including professional and trade license, cook, gastronomy / restaurant specialist, hotel and hospitality assistant.

Salzburg-Klessheim location

In 1957, a branch of the then Salzburg hotel management school was set up in Klessheim and a two-year hospitality school was founded in the same year. In 1962 the Klessheim Tourist Academy was opened and later the Salzburg teaching institutes for tourism professions , later named Höhere Lehranstalten für Tourismusprufe ( Higher Education Institutions for Tourism Professions) , today tourism schools in Klessheim Castle . In 1963, the training program was expanded to include a two-year high school graduate course. In 1972/73 a two-year hotel and catering course for adults was set up.

After a new school was built in 1972, the hospitality school in Klessheim was set up with an adjoining boys' boarding school. Between 1977 and 2001 there were numerous structural extensions and modernization measures. New construction and renovation measures are to be carried out again by 2021.

Bischofshofen location

In 1980 the third school location of the tourism schools was founded in Bischofshofen . Initially with an all-girls class in the hospitality school (today: hotel management school). In 1983/84 a tourism college was also set up. This training option was replaced in 1990 by a hotel management course for adults. The higher education institute for tourism was started in 1998 in Bischofshofen.

Bramberg location

In December 2011, the association was expanded to include a fourth tourism school with a focus on "sustainable tourism" in Bramberg am Wildkogel.

Alumni Association

The Graduate Association of the Klessheim Tourism Schools was founded in 1977 with the intention of organizing regular meetings of former graduates, intensifying contacts among Klessheimers active all over the world and disseminating news from the schools.

criticism

The Salzburg restaurateur and wine merchant Hermann Döllerer, who was honored with the “ Gault & Millau Lifetime Achievement Award ” in 2018 , criticized in 2011 that the culinary graduates in hotel schools have too little practical experience for a professional restaurant kitchen, while apprentice chefs do this in the company learn. Leonhard Wörndl, Managing Director of the Salzburg Tourism Schools, has vehemently rejected this criticism.

Trivia

Between May and June 2008, the Klessheim Tourism School housed the volunteer center for the 2008 European Football Championship for the Salzburg venue, as the Wals-Siezenheim stadium is in the immediate vicinity.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Klessheim Tourism School: 33 million new building . Article dated September 28, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Our cooking training must be reformed | ÖGZ. gast.at, February 24, 2011, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tourism schools defend themselves against harsh criticism. ORF , November 20, 2011, accessed on February 10, 2020 .