Hospitality Association Serves Up E-Learning

All-You-Can-Eat Learning: The Institute of Hospitality in the United Kingdom is offering trainers, managers and supervisors with a comprehensive slate of online learning material that is available for download. The courses are geared toward professionals in the hospitality, leisure, sports and tourism industries, and each course costs about $1,000 U.S. The initiative contains a menu of e-learning modules covering a range of skills, including practice in communication, customer service and project management. Officials with the London-based association, which until last April was known as the Hotel & Catering International Management Association, say the effort enables it to consolidate learning opportunities for members, who span more than 100 countries. Hosting and managing the learning library is Echelon Publishing, a British learning vendor.