Third foreign language

Languages are the door to the world – if you want to open this door and walk through it, then the key course element ‘Third foreign language’ is the right choice for you. Besides English, French or Spanish, we offer also Italian as an option. Especially in international hotel, catering and tourism companies, foreign language skills provide a real advantage already for the job interview and later on for your career.

Event management and digital marketing as of 2018/19

• • • Management of tourism organisations
    • Introduction to hotel, restaurant and sustainability management
    • Marketing and E-marketing
    • Website and IT-Management
    • Social Media Management
    • Blogging, press relations and story telling
    • Applied event and project management
    • Quality management in events and tourism, event controlling
    • Manager training – leadership, HR management
    • Hospitality and Tourism Management
    • Energy management and sustainability

Our additional qualifications are a real bonus for your curriculum. They are carried out in cooperation with renowned partners like Energie Steiermark, the Clefs d’Or association or the Austrian Wine Academy and are recognized on an international level.

We offer the following additional qualifications according to availability:

• • • Barkeeping & Barflairing
    • Event catering
    • Coffee connoisseur
    • Banquet manager
    • Concierge / Reception
    • Energy manager for tourism
    • Sustainability manager for tourism
    • Cheese connoisseur
    • Social Media Editors
    • Junior wine sommelier
    • Junior beer connoisseur
    • Language certificates

Practice makes perfect!
During your training, you need to complete a practical training of 32 weeks before the 5th year of training in a tourism enterprise at home or abroad. Whether as waiter, cook, receptionist or in a travel agency etc., is up to you.

Before you choose a training at the Tourism Schools Bad Gleichenberg, we cordially invite you to visit us for a day, including also an overnight stay.

• • • Successful completion of the 8^th school level
    • Entrance interview at the Tourism Schools Bad Gleichenberg
    • If necessary, successfully completed entrance exam (M,D,E)
      General secondary school (Hauptschule): ): Second performance level with a mark lower than “Good“ as well as 3^rd performance level
      New secondary school (Neue Mittelschule): ): in case of a basic general education; in case of extended general education, no entrance exam is required
      Secondary modern school (Realschule): depending on the performance level and the respective mark
      No entrance exam in case of: Academic upper secondary school, polytecnic school, school of home economics and domestic science school

An investment that pays!

The investment in the training at the Tourism Schools Bad Gleichenberg is worth its money because the focus lies on the transmission of contents which are required in today’s and future economy economy and thus, grant every graduate aclear competition advantage.

In this period of 5 years the pupils will get well prepared for their career. The reputation of an extraordinary training at the Tourism Schools Bad Gleichenberg precedes them. Thus, our graduates are known to be among the most demanded workforces in the Austrian and international tourism with more career opportunities and better earning potential.

Basically, students’ fees are paid in eight monthly instalments. In case of an advanced annual payment, we grant you a discount of 4% and for an advanced payment per semester a discount of 2% can be offered.

Boarding school student in Higher School of tourism (HLT) (School fees & boarding school contribution)

External school fees * Higher School of tourism (HLT)

What is included in the costs?

The costs include the following: Training, accommodation, board and full-time assistance through coaches and assistants.

What else is required?

The following is not included: Knives, teaching material as well as school and working clothes

The students’ and boarding fees are debited to your bank account every month in advance in eight monthly instalments (each time from September 1^st to April 1^st)

The Tourism Schools Bad Gleichenberg are a full-time boarding school and hence, all students are accommodated on our campus. An external school attendance is only possible for students who have their main residence within the school district of Bad Gleichnberg (Bad Gleichenberg, Trautmannsdorf, Merkendorf, Bairisch Kölldorf, Pichla and Ludersdorf) since at least three years or were already 18 years old when starting school and live in the district of South-East Styria since at least 3 years.

Curriculum for the Secondary School for Tourism of the Tourism Schools Bad Gleichenberg

Compulsory internship: 32 weeks in total before entering the fifth year of training