Greetings from Romania! After having completed the Diploma course, Training the trainers program, Higher Diploma course at HTMi and finally achieving my goal of receiving the Bachelors, BSc (honours) degree in International Hotel & Tourism Management from Ulster University, UK with first class honours, I reached a point when I am sure that nothing is impossible. After the studies in HTMi I felt ready to face the challenging economic crisis and develop a company that had lost its path during the past years. Even though I was advised by others to take the safe and easy way and start working in a company in Europe and not to take over a business in Romania during the peak of the economic crisis, I learnt in HTMi exactly the opposite:not to take the easy way and have trust in my abilities, take the right decisions after analysing all the chances and risks.
After having completed the Diploma course, Training the trainers program, Higher Diploma course at HTMi and finally achieving my goal of receiving the Bachelors, BSc (honours) degree in International Hotel & Tourism Management from Ulster University, UK with first class honours, I reached a point when I am sure that nothing is impossible. After the studies in HTMi I felt ready to face the challenging economic crisis and develop a company that had lost its path during the past years. Even though I was advised by others to take the safe and easy way and start working in a company in Europe and not to take over a business in Romania during the peak of the economic crisis, I learnt in HTMi exactly the opposite:not to take the easy way and have trust in my abilities, take the right decisions after analysing all the chances and risks.
Based on what I have learnt in HTMi, today I am not only the executive manager of a travel agency SEYTOUR TRAVEL & EVENTS & MEDICAL TOURISM with three offices in Romania, I am also trainer at ANAT, the National Association of Tourism Agencies teaching the managers of other tourism agencies how to overcome the economic crisis and see this not as a problem but as a challenge to achieve the desired outcomes. I wouldn’t have been able to have the necessary attributes to manage a company and also to be able to teach and influence others effectively without the support and resources that I gained during my two years spent in Switzerland at HTMi.
The most important part is that HTMi not only helped me to achieve my goals in my career but also made me the person that I am today. The years spent at HTMi were for me a life experience that I will never forget. Thank you HTMi for helping me become the person that I am today.
Miruna Nacea,
Romania