April 2011

Lanith's and Quarterly Symposium Spotlights Social Networking:

Networking, through social media and face-to-face interaction, and its role as a powerful tool for doing business in the travel trade, highlighted Lanith's (Lao National Institute of Tourism and Hospitality) Quarterly Symposium held on Friday, 18 March, in Vientiane. e-Hotel Alliance Managing Director Brinley Waddell kicked off the symposium, noting that social media has changed the way business is done, as it enables open conversations and interaction among travellers and a business. Skål Club Bangkok President Robert John Lee followed by stressing the continued need for traditional forms of social networking.

Lanith Team Leader Education Maeve O'Brien informed participants she recently returned from Singapore, where most of the core teaching team is enrolled in a hospitality certificate programme. Lanith Team Leader Industry Training Mike Loose presented Lanith's "Passport to Success", which targets up-skilling the current workforce through short, mostly half-to-three-day training modules covering "six labour divisions". Lanith Chief Technical Advisor Peter Semone stressed the two-prong education/skill training approach Lanith is taking to meet ASEAN best practices.

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