ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DES ECOLES D’HOTELLERIE ET

DE TOURISME

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF HOTEL AND TOURISM SCHOOLS

• 1988: Creation of the AEHT in the Hotel and Tourism School of Strasbourg-Illkirch

• 1989: The AEHT gets the status of an NGO from The Council of Europe

Jean-Paul BERNARD

Founding President

• 2004: The AEHT counts more than 360 schools in 39 European countries

OFFICIAL WORKING LANGUAGES :

FRENCH and ENGLISH

with simultaneous translation on important meetings

Appointed translator: Dr. John REES-SMITH

STRUCTURE of the AEHT

• GENERAL ASSEMBLY

• meeting once a year

• discusses and informs about the activities

• controls the accounting

• votes the budgets

EXECUTIVE BOARD

executes the decision of the AEHT-GA

is composed of one representative of each member country

elects a President and 5 Vice-Presidents

appoints a General Secretary and a Treasurer

all members have access to the reports of the Board meetings

MANAGING COMMITTEE

Is in charge of the everyday tasks of the AEHT

The members are:

The President, the Vice-Presidents,

the General Secretary and the Treasurer

The statutes and the Rules and Regulations of the AEHT determine the tasks and responsibilities of the members of the Executive Board and the Managing Committee

MANAGING COMMITTEE

MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE AEHT

Promoting a European spirit

between Hotel- and Tourism Schools

SUB-OBJECTIVES

To serve as a communication Centre for Hotel and Tourism Schools in Europe

to circulate information about hotel and tourism education and training in the European countries

to favour students and teachers exchanges

to create tight links between the schools and enterprises

to put together teaching methods, pedagogical

material, knowledge and know-how

SPECIAL FEATURES

• The AEHT includes in its activities all the actors of the educational system:

– Headmasters

– Teachers and, above all

– STUDENTS

• offers to its members a variety of activities to give satisfaction to every group

ACTIVITIES

• Communication : Yearbook, Web-site, e-mail• Annual Meeting “Les Rencontres”• Seminars• Congresses• ‘ Christmas in Europe ’• Practical training periods for teachers in

ACCOR Hotels• Placements for students• “Gastronomy for peace” (2005)

COMMUNICATION: www.aeht.lu• Presentation of the AEHT• Membership list• National delegates• Managing Committee• News• Activities• Job advertising• General Information• Hotel and Tourism training• Member’s projects• Information about membership• Interesting links

ANNUAL MEETING Main event of the AEHT

• Competitions for students

• Conferences

• Tourism and professional visits

• Getting in contact

• Entertainment and distraction

ANNUAL MEETING

1988 Strasbourg, France

1989 Athens, Greece

1990 Setubal, Portugal

1991 Herk de Stad, Belgium

1992 Antalya, Turkey

1993 Sciacca, Italy

1994 Portrush, Northern Ireland - UK

1995 Göteborg, Sweden

1996 Amsterdam, Netherlands

1997 La Rochelle, France

ANNUAL MEETING1998 Faro, Portugal

1999 Luxemburg

2000 Berlin, Germany

2001 Linz, Austria

2002 San Remo, Italy

2003 Copenhagen, Denmark

2004 Bled, Slovenia

2005 Antalya, Turkey

2006 Killarney, Ireland

2007 Norway

2008 Paris, France

2009

SEMINARS

• Subventions from the AEHT

• Important for teaching methods

• Possibility to meet teachers from

other countries

• Net of experts

AEHT SEMINARS2001

• Cheeses and Typical Products:

April, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy)

September, Strasbourg, France

• Hunting and Game (October, Nykoping, Sweden)

(cancelled, lack of participants)

2000

• The Wines of the Tokay Region (based in Budapest, Hungary)

1999

• Administration and Financial Management in Hotel Schools (Senigallia, Italy)

• Cultural Aspects of Tourism (Salzburg and Bad Ischl, Austria)

AEHT SEMINARS 1998• Alsace Wines and Spirits (Kaysersberg, France)• Work Placements (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)• Appreciation of Cognac and Pineau des Charentes

(La Rochelle, France)

1997• Champagne (Reims, France)• Poultry and Cheeses of the Rhône-Alpes Region

(Bonneville, France)• German for Teachers of German (Dortmund,

Germany)

AEHT SEMINARS

1996

• New Technology in Language Teaching (Strasbourg, France, LINGUA funded)

• Tourism, Gastronomy and Beers (Budejoivce, Czech Republic)

CONGRESSES• First Chefs’ Conference, Strasbourg, France

(1992) ‘Gastronomic Cooking’• Second Chefs’ Conference, Portrush, UK

(2001) - ‘How Chefs Cook’ (reported due to F&MD)

• Young Peoples’ Conference,

Dortmund (D) 1998

Portrush, UK 2000

Regular events

• Festival of Gastronomy, Venice

• Springtime in Gastronomy, Budapest,

CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE

CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE

CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE

CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE

ACCOR Training periods for Teachers

• Important activity together with the Hotel group ACCOR

• The main objective is upgrading the teachers knowledge and know-how

• Updating the language skills

• Coordination is done in Illkirch (F)

Financial help from the AEHT

• Subsidy for the organization of the Annual Meeting,

• Subsidies for seminars

• Subsidies for congresses

• Financial help for Eastern European countries

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