Consulting and services

Do you want to strengthen the workplace with education and training for your staff? The tourism center offers advice and services that support companies in establishing staff education and training. Höfnisetir works according to a service contract with the Ministry of Culture and Business, and the advice is free of charge to companies.

Funding

Companies can apply for grants for education and training from the vocational training funds of the business sector. You can read more about them in the common portal of the vocational training funds called Áttin.

Education for the future

The management gets to know the solutions that the Fitness Center offers, learns to use them and can subsequently manage their own educational issues.

With our help, you can establish targeted education and training, find ways to finance education and train in:

  • Analyze staff training needs
  • Set up education according to needs
  • Measure the results

Work schedule

Introduction
The fitness center introduces its tools and offers advice and support to establish targeted education.
1
Organization
Role and vision of a company, goal setting and expectations. Process prepared, timeline.
2
Needs
Teaching of the Fitness Center's tools, selection and registration of performance measures, educational need assessed. Surveys sent out.
3
Education
Review the educational analysis, set up a plan and decide on a course. Education takes place.
4
Success
Final measurements of results recorded. Subsequent surveys sent out.
5
Summary
Feedback, lessons learned.
6

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Videos

Tourism education

Have you studied Tourism Education?

The fitness center assists tourism companies in collaboration with educators all over the country in establishing targeted education and training and evaluating the results.

More about the project in this video. 

Skaftafell

Hotel Skaftafell participates in the project Education in tourism in collaboration with the Hæfnisetur ferðaþjónustan and Fræðslunet Suðurlands. 

Here, Margrét Gauja Magnúsdóttir, hotel manager, talks about her experience of the project. 

Hotel Klettur

Hótel Klettur participates in the project Education in tourism in collaboration with the Tourism Competence Center and Let's do better.

Here, Kristján Jóhann Kristjánsson, hotel manager, talks about his experience of the project. 

Holds

Höldur participates in the project Education in tourism with the Tourism Competence Center and SÍMEY.

Here, Geir Kristinn Aðalsteinsson, Höldur's human resources manager, and Sigrún Árnadóttir, project manager at Höldur, talk about their experience of the project.

Inside the Volcano

Inside the Volcano participates in the project Education in tourism with the Tourism Competence Center and Let's do better. 

Here, Ólafur Þór Júlíusson, a partner, talks about his experience of the project. 

What do the staff say?

How have we managed to receive foreign staff, what is well done and what can be improved?

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