The restaurant was opened by students for only one day

The second-year students of the Restaurant & Banquet Staff course opened an “Alpine restaurant" in the Hospitality & Tourism College Osaka. The atmosphere of the restaurant was inspired by the animated film “A girl of the Alps, HEIDI”.
There were two items on the menu, a pasta and a hamburg steak.
The restaurant was filled with guests (students and teachers).

They seemed to enjoy the dishes very much♪

The Restaurant & Banquet course students want to be professional banquet staff with knowledge about food and beverage.
The atmosphere of the class is very nice and shows good teamwork.
Their hospitality and smiles made us very happy.

It was really wonderful♪♪

Kumiko Yamamoto
Hospitality & Tourism College Osaka

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (vol.19) ＊♪＊

We gave a short-term study course for 7days from 4th to 10th of February.
Seven students from Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Canada participated in this course, learned Japanese language and experienced Japanese culture like wearing kimono, making soba, tea ceremony, a trip to Hakone and so on.
It was the first experience for them, so I guess this one week was unforgettable.
It was great to see everyone and we hope you come to see us again !

Junko Fujisaki
Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College

Summer Events and Festivals in Melbourne

There are a lot of events and festivals in Melbourne.
Major events are “Australia Open Tennis” in January and “F1 Grand Prix ( car race)” in March. They are broadcast to all over the world. Have you seen these events on TV?
Also many festivals are held in Melbourne in summer time. They are “The St. Kilda Festival ”, “Chinese New Year Festival”, “ The Japanese Summer Festival” and “Moomba Festival” etc.
Australia is a multi-cultural society which means that people came from many countries to live in Australia. So we have different backgrounds such as culture, food, religion, race and so on. It is a good opportunity to understand differences through the festivals and it is “fun”.

Teruko Ue

“Hotel Design Contest” ～Result of an excellent team effort～

The month of February is the busiest month for second year students. They were preparing for a series of events as a result of an excellent team effort.
Let me tell you about the “Hotel Design Contest” which was held at our college.

The theme of the contest was “Propose a novel idea to promote the “Phoenix Seagaia Resort” in Miyazaki. It is not easy to propose a profitable plan for a company. We had been preparing for this event for almost six months, since September last year.

Many thanks to the corporate sales director and to the branch manager of Phoenix Seagaia Resort East Japan branch office who came all the way to our college as special judges.

They chose “Vivid Agricultural Experience” as the winning plan out of the six submitted. One reason they chose this plan, was the clear vision toward the future. The participants will be able to experience genuine agriculture, and the judges thought this could lead to revitalization of Miyazaki prefecture economy and that of our country Japan as well.

Akiko Ikeuchi

Hotel Course

Hospitality & Tourism College

The brochures of Student- created Tour is ready!

This article is one of a series following one posted on this site in Nov. last year. Finally the Student-created Tour developed in collaboration with NOE(travel agency) has gone on sale. The tour is named 〝LET’S ENJOY THAILAND 120%!〝　

There are many attractive optional tours, such as 3 courses for Shopping, 2 courses for Massage, and the night plans include traditional dancing, a drag queen show and watching Muay-thai. There are 8 courses and you can choose whatever you like. These tours have a number of unique points which makes them stand out from all the others. For example, the price of 40,000yen is competitive and attracts many people.

This plan has been sold already, and many reservations have been made as well! I have no doubt that it will be very popular!
Also it was featured in the SANKEI newspaper!!!!

Kumiko YAMAMOTO
Hospitality & Tourism College Osaka

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (vol.18) ＊♪＊

We had a cultural exchange session with two classes of sixth-year students at Nakano Municipal Hakuou Elementary school on the 29th of January.

Our 17students from Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and China introduced their own cultures to the pupils, who responded by sharing some aspects of Japan.

One of our students who is a former kindergarten teacher was able to overcome the difference of nationality or language and her ability to communicate with children was most impressive.

Young children show a remarkable ability to communicate in many ways.

Junko Fujisaki
Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College

On-the-job Training

The real wedding hall is our classroom!!
The first year students went to a real wedding hall and checked the procedures for a virtual wedding that is scheduled to be held in March.
Everyone seemed a little nervous because the facility was different from their usual classroom.
The wedding hall with illumination and music created real wedding atmosphere.
Our Bridal course students are fully occupied with events.
The first year students are preparing for the Virtual Wedding, and second year students are preparing for a Bridal Fair.
Let’s make these events successful!!

Isshin Takasu
Bridal Course

Hospitality & Tourism College Tokyo

Fast-evolving Technologies

On the Jan.28, we had a first online hiring interview through Skype.
A student from our Tokyo college applied for an internship at the Sofitel Manila in the Philippines, and the student had an interview answering various questions.
There are some difficulties in sound quality, but the student could manage to wrap up the interview.
The progress of technology is certainly eye opening.
From an educational point of view, we will be able to do something that is not bound by the limits of time and space.
It is so exciting when I think of what we can do in the near future,

Travel Journal Educational Foundation
Satoshi Tsukada

Graduation in summer

Hello from Melbourne! As you are having very cold days in Japan or the Northern hemisphere, Melbourne is having very hot days. The temperature is getting nearly 40 degrees!

When mid-summer arrives, it’s time for us to say “Good bye” to our 37 students.
Yes, we had graduation day on 28th of January. A lot of laugh, tears, smile and hugs….Graduation day is always special.

However, this year’s one is remarkable because of some students’ great efforts to decorate the place gorgeously! So, we had a fantastic ceremony as if we had been in wedding reception! The 3-course dinner was also very nice. Thanks to Holmesglen!

Our students show us great performance each year. This year, we decided to surprise them by showing our performance, Hip-Hop Dance! First of all, we asked our ex-student who is working as a dance teacher here to choreograph. And we practiced a lot without letting anyone know. That’s our challenge to please them! ----- I think our efforts were paid off! If you would like to check it out, please visit our web.
Anyway, the night was so unforgettable!
Dear students, good luck with whatever you choose to do in the future!

Melbourne Mariko Yoshikawa