New learning and practical skills assessment for tourism

The program is 90 units and is divided into a 40-unit core and a 50-unit specialty. The areas are Reception of guests, Baths, springs and reservoirs and Catering. Courses that are assessed by practical skills assessment shorten the course.

The program will begin in the first half of 2025. The program will be available to people who have completed a practical skills assessment. Real skills assessment and learning are available digitally and participation is independent of residence.

Admission requirements

To have reached the age of 23 and to have worked for 3 years in tourism

Cost

Practical skills assessment is free of charge for participants

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Practical skills assessment is available in Icelandic and English

If you have worked in tourism in one of the fields covered by the course, you have gathered experience, knowledge and skills, and you have a role to play in the practical skills assessment. If the skills are present, they are confirmed with a practical skills assessment and the course is shortened accordingly. The result of a practical skills assessment has the same value as a formal study. See more here

What is a practical skills assessment?

Structure and implementation of studies

  • The implementation of studies is based on the needs of adults working in the tourism industry and is mostly distance learning.
  • Accessible to people who don't speak Icelandic, but English skills are essential
  • Executives of the practical skills assessment are:
  • The educational network - lifelong learning in the South, Sólveig R. Kristjánsdóttir, solveig@fraedslunet.is, Sandra D. Gunnarsdóttir, sandra@fraedslunet.is
  • SÍMEY – lifelong learning center of Eyjafjörður, Anna María Jónsdóttir, annamaria@simey.is, Helena Sif Guðmundsóttir, helena@simey.is

Core 40 units

The same core is in all areas 1,2,3
  • Travel geography of Iceland, topography of Iceland
  • Tourism geography, natural travel and human habitation in tourism
  • Communication and service in tourism
  • Communication and services in tourism II
  • Consumer rights
  • The working environment of the tourism industry
  • Information technology
  • The job market in tourism
  • On-the-job training in tourism
  • Product knowledge and sales skills
  • Environmental issues and sustainability
  • Icelandic in tourism for foreigners
  • enska
  • Multiculturalism
  • First aid
  • Hygiene and microbiology

Baths, springs and reservoirs 50 units

Specialization 2
  • The water and the baths
  • Workplace learning - bathing places
  • Safety issues at the bathing place
  • On-the-job training in tourism
  • Information technology in tourism
  • Communication and service III, Service skills
  • Consumer law 2, rights, obligations
  • Environmental issues and sustainability
  • Icelandic in tourism for foreigners 2
  • English - tourism 2
  • English - tourism 3
  • Foreign language (3 languages)
  • Multiculturalism in tourism
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Receive 50 credits

Specialization 1
  • Accounting in small businesses
  • Finance at reception
  • Operations in tourism
  • Service skills (Communication and service)
  • Consumer rights 2
  • Information technology - tourism
  • On-the-job training in tourism
  • Safety
  • Environmental issues and sustainability
  • Icelandic in tourism for foreigners 2
  • English - tourism 2
  • English - tourism 3
  • Foreign language (3 languages)
  • Multiculturalism in tourism

Refreshments 50 units

Specialization 3
  • Methodology of cooking
  • Desserts, broth, sauces, soup
  • Ingredient science of cooking
  • Internal control and food safety
  • Cooking - basics
  • Cooking 2 - general
  • Menu theory
  • Food and culture
  • Nutrition - basics
  • Table service

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