Tourist schools Villa Blanka
| Tourism schools Villa Blanka Innsbruck | |
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| type of school | Vocational high and middle school; Advanced course for tourism |
| founding | 1950 |
| address |
Weiherburggasse 31 |
| place | innsbruck |
| state | Tyrol |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 16 '46 " N , 11 ° 23' 52" E |
| carrier | Tyrol Chamber of Commerce (specialist groups catering and hotel industry) |
| student | about 230 |
| Teachers | about 50 |
| management | Sabine Wechselberger |
| Website | www.villablanka.com |
The tourism schools Villa Blanka (also a training center for tourism ) in Innsbruck consist of a higher education institution for tourism (HLT), a hotel management school (HFS) and an advanced course (AL) as well as an internat for girls and boys . The private school with public rights has existed since 1950, making it the oldest tourism school in Tyrol .
Location and building
The school is located in the north of Innsbruck, at the foot of the Nordkette near the Alpine Zoo . The bus stop right by the school is served by the IVB bus line W , which runs the Marktplatz-Alpenzoo-Marktplatz route.
The complex Villa Blanka consists of two school buildings (administrative building, restaurant and cultivation; restaurant and cultivation are in a building), a girl and boy international and a school's Café - Restaurant called N °. 8 The rooms of the so-called Villa Halhuber , which used to be used as a boarding school, are now rented to students. The Villa Blanka also houses the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI III) with the tourism and leisure industry branch.
The school is currently attended by around 230 pupils, who are taught and supervised by around 50 teachers.
The school is a private school with public rights , which means that a school fee and, if applicable, the costs of boarding and boarding are to be paid. Austrian students do not have to take an entrance examination, foreign students have to pass this in mathematics, German and English.
Training offer and equipment of the school buildings
In addition to a five-year higher education institution for tourism (qualification as hotel clerk with Matura ), the training offers a three-year practical technical school (qualification as hotel clerk) and a three-year advanced course (graduation with Matura), which is specially intended for graduates from hotel management school and other technical schools is.
In the three training branches ( international , digital , tourism ), the basics for professions in the tourism and leisure industry are taught. Around 140 computer workstations are available in 5 computer rooms for IT lessons, and all 3rd to 5th grades of the college have so-called " laptop classes" with WLAN access. English, French and Italian are taught as foreign languages. Attending the gifted program in the higher classes and taking exams to obtain international language certificates is also possible.
Through mandatory summer internships to connect to professional practice is manufactured inserts in the school's restaurant and inserts on different occasions and the lessons to be supplemented.
Additional qualifications
As part of the training, there are additional courses at Villa Blanka, with which the students can receive further certificates.
As of 2020 there are the following offers (selection):
- Young sommelier
- Young bartender
- Cheese connoisseur
- Cooking master class
- Patisserie - sweet hours
- EBCL
- ECDL
- PLIDA ( Italian Language Certificate)
boarding schools
There are currently around 100 students in the boarding schools. They have 2-, 3- and 4-bed rooms. Each room is equipped with a bathroom. The exit regulation is very strict in the 1st grade with only two hours of exit per week, but this regulation is extended every school year, from the 4th grade the pupils have unlimited exit. For the boarding school students, voluntary support tuition in the subjects of English, French, Italian, information and office management, accounting and mathematics is offered, which becomes compulsory if the student's performance drops.
The premises in the boarding school include several TV rooms, several study rooms, a roof terrace and a fitness room. In addition, the boarding school students can use the gym and an IT room. The entire boarding school has been equipped with WiFi across the board since 2016.
Cafe-restaurant
Directly attached to the school building is the Villa Blanka café-restaurant with the name N ° 8 , which was reopened in February 2016. In this, the students have to work a certain number of hours in the kitchen or in service each year. In the restaurant and the school auditorium, private events with up to 400 guests take place on a regular basis, where the students serve and cook for practical purposes.
Due to the lack of space, the restaurant was structurally increased in the second half of 2015. An additional floor with seminar rooms and offices was built for around 3.8 million euros.
management
- Sabine Wechselberger (Director)
- Karin Götz (Event Center)
- Carina Falk (boarding school)
Well-known graduates
- Johann Staggl , hotelier and Tyrolean state politician
- Franz Hörl , innkeeper, farmer, politician
- Andreas Köll , politician and member of the state parliament
- Alexander Fankhauser , cook and TV chef, author of cookbooks
- Georg Kaltschmid , politician and member of the state parliament
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tourism schools Villa Blanka: 43 new apprentice trainers enter professional life. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Hotel Management School Villa Blanka Innsbruck - architect Karl Heinz, architecture, Tyrol. In: architektur-heinz.at. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Max Strozzi: Villa Blanka the students go out. September 13, 2016, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Locations - Schools for Tourism: Vocational schools. Tourist schools Villa Blanka. In: berufsbildendeschulen.at. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Additional offers - Villa Blanka. In: villablanka.com. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Support lessons - Villa Blanka. In: villablanka.com. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Home - Gourmet Restaurant No. 8. In: nr8.at. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Millions for the expansion of Villa Blanka - tirol.ORF.at. In: orf.at . August 31, 2015, accessed February 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Villa Blanka: Seminars & Culinary with a view | economy.tyrol. In : wirtschaft.tirol ( Tyrol Chamber of Commerce ). February 12, 2016, accessed February 3, 2020 .