Course Fee: €560
Distance Learning Course of 8 modules

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This course is your complete guide to buying, setting up and successfully managing your own Hotel, guesthouse or B & B.

It is for those who are seriously thinking of entering the business. Running such establishments is often seen as a glamorous occupation and indeed it is as there are so many advantages not least being your own boss, not having to travel to work and meeting new and often interesting and exciting people all the time.

Naturally there are disadvantages but if you carefully go through our initial personal check list you should be easily able to decide if it is a business for you.

The course commences with a self check analysis which will help you decide if this is the right business for you.

It then goes to show you how to:

• Choose the right hotel





• Search for the right hotel

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• Raising the necessary capital





• Closing the purchase





• Conducting an inventory of staff and equipment





• Buy the correct equipment and employ staff





• Maintaining books and prepare correct accounts





• Decide on what to charge





• Comply with the law





• Stay ahead of the competition





• Market your business





• Make a profit.

Accreditation

When you have completed this course you may take a final examination. Full details of this examination are automatically sent to you as you near the end of the course. The examination costs €65 and is taken at home at your convenience.  If you receive 70% or more in this examination you will receive an ITEC Diploma.

Personality/Intelligence Test

All our students have the option to take this revealing test for an additional cost of €25.00.

The test asks questions to determine:

• Are you a 'Take-Charge' type?
   
• Are you a manipulative person?
   
• Are you a real friend when the going gets rough?
   
• How popular are you?
   
• Could you be your own boss?
   
• What's your leadership potential?

The objective is not only to help you achieve greater personal and professional success - but to show you how to get what you really want out of life.

Management/Leadership Skills Test

All students of this course have the option to take a Management/Leadership Test for an additional cost of €50.00. This test is conducted on our behalf by Verax international. This test has to be taken on line and the results will be sent directly to each student by email usually within 3/4 working days.

We urge you to complete this test as it will provide you with invaluable help and guidance in enabling you to get the most out for your learning. The assessment sent to you when you complete the test will not count in any way to your eventual qualification. It is intended to enable you to understand your strengths and weaknesses and so concentrate on those parts of the course that are most valuable to you.

You may think that you are already aware of these. However, systematic research shows that just over half the population are unaware of their real strengths, let alone their real weaknesses.

This test provides you with a systematic way of assuring these for yourself. Answer honestly. There are no right or wrong answers. Only you will see the results.

The test will allow you to assess your own performance against 16 key management/leader competencies - such as customer focus, decision making, creativity and team working - which are valued by employers and which are very important for effective performance as a manager or team leader. There is one test for managers in the public sector and a separate test for all other managers. Depending on which version chosen, your performance is benchmarked either against 15,000 or so managers in the database or against public sector managers only.

In summary, this unique test will show you what to stop doing (or do less of) and what to start doing (or do more of) in order to become more effective in your current role/activity. In effect, you are told what you need to do to become a more effective manager and team leader and most important of all, how to do it.

Good luck with your studies.

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