Vocational College for Catering and Tourism Bled

HEALTH TOURISM & WELLNESS TRAINING IN

SLOVENIA

Vocational College for Catering and Tourism Bled

Mojca JoštLibrarian / International Coordinator

A higher professional school / short tertiary cycle

• 1995 – Phare programme for the reform of vocational education and training in Slovenia

• 1996 – legal foundation: Organization and Financing of Education Act + Vocational Education and Training Act

• 2007 : study programmes reform

• – Project ESS : basic professional standard

Study programmes reform

Programmes are reformed according to Bologna process – short tertiary cycles:

modularity

student choice

European Credit Transfer System – 120 (ECTS)

New study programme of WELLNESS

• The first generation in the academic year 2011-2012 (50 students)

• Graduates get a title of a „Wellness Manager“ after 2 years of study.

Beginnings

• The first idea appeared at Maribor College (the same type of an educational school as Bled) as an international project called “WELLPRO” for wellness trainers and wellness advisers.

• The group of experts then prepared so called “professional standards” on the basis of economy needs with a cooperation with social partners.

Beginnings

• They carried out the surveys in appropriate companies (hotels, wellness and spa centres,beauty centres, etc).

• they checked the comparability with foreign similar study programmes, and they signed letters of intend and letters of support with the local authorities as well as with the companies.

The preparation of curriculum

• All this was then approved by the Centre of Professional Education in Ljubljana, see their site: (http://www.cpi.si/en/) and the standards were then published in the Official Gazette of Slovenia.

• On the basis of these standards the programme was then approved by the Ministry of Education and Sport of Slovenia.

Curriculum – a short version• M1 Communication• M2 Economics and Business• M3 Wellness• M4 Marketing and Tourism• M5 Healthy Diet• M6 Physical Activities, Movement• M7 Mental Wellness• M8 Beauty and Body Care

• 20 subjects are embedded within those 8 modules!!!!!

• 30% of the curriculum is meant for practical training; the first 100 hours are performed at Astoria school hotel in the Wellness centre.

CurriculumM1 COMMUNICATION

P1 Business Communication and LeadershipP2 Professional terminology 1st Foreign Language

(ENG, GER)P3 Professional terminology 2nd Foreign Language (ITA, ENG, GER, FRE)D1 Practical Training: Business Communication and LeadershipM2 ECONOMICS AND BUSINESSP4 Economics and EntrepreneurshipP5 Business Information with StatisticsP6 Legal RegulationsD2 Practical Training: Economics and BusinessM3 MARKETING AND TOURISMP7 Service MarketingP8 Tourism and Destination Management - IntroductionD3 Practical Training: Tourism and Service MarketingM4 WELLNESSP9 Wellness and Business of WellnessP10 Business and Management of Wellness CentresP11 Wellness Products Design and MarketingD4 Practical Training: WellnessM5 HEALTHY DIETP12 Basics of Healthy DietP13 Culinary for VitalityD5 Practical Training: Healthy Way of Life and DietM6 MOVEMENT, PHYSICAL ACTIVITIESP14 Basics of Movement and Sports ActivitiesP15 Sports Animation and Personal TrainingD6 Practical Training: Healthy Way of Life and MovementM7 MENTAL WELLNESSP16 Emotional Intelligence and Personal GrowthP17 Stress Management and Relaxation TechniquesD7 Practical Training: Healthy Way of Life and Personal GrowthM8 BEAUTY AND BODY CAREP18 Principles of Beauty and Body Care and HygieneP19 Styling and Fashion MannersD8 Practical Training: Beauty and Body CareP20 Free elective subject

Graduation thesis

Curriculum – a knowledge catalogue 1. SUBJECT

STYLING AND FASHION MANNERS

2. GENERAL GOALS

Subject’s General Goals are:

• Student knows the principles of styling and designing the outer look of a customers’ regarding different factors, and she/he is aware of own look at work with customers;

• Follows the novelties and trends in the field of styling;

• Know the principles and methods of verbal and non-verbal communication in the sense of fashion manners;

• Knows the methods of motivating an individual towards the integrated, healthy life style;

• Manages the conflict situations, co-shapes the positive climate at work place;

• Behaves according to business etiquette.

3. SPECIFIC SUBJECT COMPETENCIES

Apart from general competencies, the student gets the following specific subject competencies:

• Performs an advising interview,

• Advises style for the customer’s outer look for different occasions,

• Train customers for a proper use of behavioural patterns at business or private communication and public presentations,

• Trains customers for a proper use of body language,

• Advises how to behave in business and private situations.

Health Tourism and Wellness in Slovenia 1/3

• Long history of health tourism since the Roman period; modern era begins in 1960‘s

• 87 thermal sources of different kinds of waters

• 25 health & spa centres; 15 of them are natural spas

Health Tourism and Wellness in Slovenia 2/3

• Over 3200 employees from the field of health care, hospitality, hotel industry, economics, sport, culture

• 600 of them are professionals with the medical background (physicians, nurses, health therapists)

Health Tourism and Wellness in Slovenia 3/3

• 88 registered different wellness establishments from wellness hotels, beauty clinics, welness in the mountain or at the coast.

http://www.slovenia.info/?wellness=0&lng=2&redirected=1

Health Tourism and Wellness Training 1/2

• 8 secondary medical schools in Slovenia with a three and four-year courses of nursing care and four-year courses of cosmetology

• 5 vocational colleges with a 2 year course of wellness

• 3 vocational colleges with a 2 year course of cosmetology

• NO SPA or MASSAGE THERAPIST COURSES!!!!!!!

Health Tourism and Wellness Training 2/2

• To become a Massage Therapist / Masseuse/ Masseur/ SPA Therapist or similar, you need to obtain the National Professional Qualifications / certificate according to the NPQ Act

http://www.npk.si

Dilemmas • You can obtain the certificate, but you needn‘t

pass the NPQ exam if it is not required by an employer.

• Vocational colleges educate in all aspects of wellness, the industry is mainly looking for beauty and body care skilled workers.

• Educating / Training?

„Starting up wellness training“

• Gave us the experience of starting a new study programme.

• Getting the information from partners that have this training for some time already.

• Updating competencies of wellness students / trainees.

• To acquire generic and profession-specific competencies from the field of wellness industry with the focus on managerial, organizational, business-like and communicational knowledges for the services of a physical movement and recreation, healthy nutrition, mental activities, relaxation and beauty /body care.

Thank you for your attention.