{"id":6272,"date":"2019-04-23T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T07:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/news\/2808-to-mitropolitiko-kollegio-o-monadikos-global-academic-partner-tou-american-hotel-lodging-educational-institute-ahlei-stin-ellada\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T12:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:43:39","slug":"2808-to-mitropolitiko-kollegio-o-monadikos-global-academic-partner-tou-american-hotel-lodging-educational-institute-ahlei-stin-ellada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/news\/2808-to-mitropolitiko-kollegio-o-monadikos-global-academic-partner-tou-american-hotel-lodging-educational-institute-ahlei-stin-ellada\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan College is the only licensed Global Academic Partner of American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI) in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan College<\/strong>\u00a0reinforces the\u00a0Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>by introducing its\u00a0new collaboration with American Hotel and Lodging \u0391ssociation [AHLA]<\/strong>\u00a0and more specifically, with its educational institute, American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute\u00a0[AHLEI]<\/strong>. The multi- awarded Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management became\u00a0the only Global Academic Partner of AHLEI in Greece.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Located in Washington, AHLA has been the foremost representative and advocate for the U.S. lodging industry. It is the only national association that represents all segments of an industry that is among the 10 largest business sectors in America. Their mission it to serve, to support and to advocate on behalf of the American hospitality industry. More specifically, they provide strategic advocacy, communications support, and educational resources to their members so they can do their best at what matters most: serving guests, employees and their communities.\u00a0Counting more than 25.000 memberships, it represents 3 million rooms in total. This equals 50% of the industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

AHLEI, the educational arm of AHLA, since 1953, serves the needs of international learning institutions and hotel organizations through its licensed affiliates. The Educational Institute has licensees in nearly\u00a0100 countries<\/strong>\u00a0connecting AHLEI\u2019s hospitality education and professional development resources. For more than 65 years, AHLEI has worked to\u00a0provide<\/strong>\u00a0hospitality organizations and schools with\u00a0quality resources to train, educate, and certify hospitality professionals.<\/strong>\u00a0More than 2.000 Colleges and universities use AHLEI\u2019s hospitality textbooks (Educational Institute textbooks) and courses to educate\u00a0future hospitality leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Metropolitan College as a Global Academic Partner is licensed to offer the renowned AHLEI courses which, through their successful completion, lead to worldwide recognised AHLA diplomas and provide students globally-recognized credentials. These educational programmes are related to 20 different aspects of the hospitality sector, including training in:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Introduction to Hospitality
\n\u2022 Rooms Division
\n\u2022 Food and Beverage
\n\u2022 Accounting and Finance
\n\u2022 Marketing and Sales
\n\u2022 Human Resources
\n\u2022 General Hospitality Management<\/p>\n

It is worth mentioning that the\u00a0Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management of Metropolitan College<\/strong>\u00a0offers both undergraduate (Bachelors) and postgraduate courses (Masters) in modern specializations with high demand in the tourism labor market with significant career prospects both in Greece and abroad. Moreover, the \u03a6\u03b1\u03c8\u03b8\u03bb\u03c4\u03c5 is member of the Greek Tourism Confederation-SETE<\/strong>\u00a0Full Member of EURHODIP-The International Association supporting Hospitality and Tourism Education and Training,\u00a0Affiliate Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation-\u00a0UNWTO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan College\u00a0reinforces the\u00a0Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management\u00a0by introducing its\u00a0new collaboration with American Hotel and Lodging \u0391ssociation [AHLA]\u00a0and more specifically, with its educational institute, American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute\u00a0[AHLEI]. The multi- awarded Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management became\u00a0the only Global Academic Partner of AHLEI in Greece. Located in Washington, AHLA has been the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-of-hospitality","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6273\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}