On our return to Finland in 2013 it was the start of another exciting chapter in my professional career, the formation of b8b hospitality consultancy. The aim was to put my experience and passion for hospitality in good use, and advise hotel owners, hotel investors, with Solutions that Transform their Hospitality Assets. In addition to advising hotel owners, I am also strong believer in education and providing the best education opportunities for people already working in the hotel industry, and for people who want to study hospitality. From my own experience I will always remain thankful to Playboy Resorts & Country Club, a resort hotel in Lake Geneva, WI in USA. I joined the hotel as a management trainee. The hotel encouraged employees to study hospitality, and they paid tuition fees for any employee who wanted to improve their competency. Thanks to the hotel I was given the opportunity to study hospitality courses at a vocational college. I continued my studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and graduated with a bachelors degree in Hotel Administration. I will always be grateful for the opportunity given by this forward thinking hotel company, famous for their magazines Playboy and Penthouse. After return to Helsinki I started to look into how hotel education has progressed since I left Finland in 1976, actually a lot more than the hotel industry in Finland. In order to meet the demands of today’s ambitious professionals and students, schools in Finland have progressed and education is rated highly worldwide. One of the campuses of Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, located in the city of Porvoo, provide Campus for Creative Learning. I found the campus very inspiring for learning, and atmosphere relaxed. The operations of the Porvoo campus are characterized by co-learning and involvement in projects with a focus on working life. The campus is also open to the public daily, giving people access to a nice restaurant, an extensive professional library and a number of comfortable meeting places. Studies are completed in large modules, and learning is promoted in many different ways: reading literature, participating in lectures, seminars and various workshops, and finding solution models independently and in groups. So what does international students think about studying in...
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