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December 5, 2018
On the warm evening of December 4, 2018, an interesting
gathering took place at the RIT Croatia's Dubrovnik campus. For the first time,
our HTM students presented the outcomes of their HotelSim work that they did in
the past three months. HotelSim is a an internet-delivered, industry-validated
simulation converging the STR data, market analysis, predictive analytics, and
reputation management processes needed for market, financial, guest, facilities
and associate business results. In essence, it teaches students the business of
the hotel business, with real competition, real insights and real results. It
is used by over 80 reputable hospitality schools worldwide and is available in
42 countries, 10 languages and 8 currencies. The HotelSim is developed by Red
Global, a company specializing training assistance to hospitality students and
industry professionals from top hotel companies. The relevance of this
simulation is best confirmed by the names of hotel companies using their
services: Regent, Hyatt, Hilton, Holiday inn, Jumeriah and numerous others.
The student presentations were delivered to the
representatives of Hilton Imperial (Mario Matković, General Manager and also our professor, and Daniel Butigan, Director of F&B) and Hotel Bellevue,
ALH (Sanela Omerčahić, General Manager and also our professor and alumna). Our
students who took part in this off the charts learning experience did it as
part of the Lodging Operations Management course delivered by Professor Domagoj
Nikolić. They demonstrated competence at the level at which they are able to
engage in an in-depth professional scrutiny of specific issues in hotel
operations with top industry professionals and we are all immensely proud of
their achievement.
RIT Croatia remains the gold standard for experiential
learning in the region...