Bookkeeping, cleaning rooms and cooking. The students take care of everything. The second-year students also train the first-year students. Normally Hotel les Dunes in De Haan is now on holiday, but there are a lot of bookings.
“The students have been given a box here. A hotel, a building. And that’s it. There is no staff. No bookings that had already been made in advance. They really had to do everything,” says An Winnepenninckx, head of training for graduate hospitality management Vives .
The real hotel manager also comes to take a quick look. “I still think the best place to learn your trade and your job is the workplace and not the school desk,” says Thibaud Hermans of Hotel Les Dunes in De Haan.
He is confident that the hotel is now being run optimally.