Practicum Training

Traveling in today's pandemic is really hard because there are a lot of restrictions and requirements in order for you to travel inside or outside the country. . As we can see today, our tourism is getting there. Little by little, the hospitality and tourism industry is getting back on its track. But getting back on track is not easy. A lot of things should be done first before getting in a place outside your place. Most importantly, guests want to ensure their safety while traveling. Health and safety are the primary concern of travelers. So, a lot of places today requires a medical certificate or Swab test in order to travel in a place or country. Rebooting tourism build new competencies and harness them. We all know that we cannot go back to the things we are used to, but we should just accept the fact that this is the new normal, we should just think about it as a challenge that we should complete. Just like the meaning of transcend, learning beyond the ordinary means that we should be learning things in a new and fresh form.

Managing hotel’s contactless experience and commitment to guest’s safety is all about having a contactless experience at the same time, giving the guests or tourists the same experience, which is giving them a wonderful and one-of-a-kind experience that they can treasure. Last 2020, Covid struck all of the businesses especially in the hospitality industry. Even before the pandemic, the hospitality industry Provides security and sanitation, but today these protocols are elevated so that guests and tourist will feel much safer when travelling. Ms. Elena also discussed the process or how the industry is adjusting to the new normal. Like, having protocols when a guest or tourist enter an establishment or hotel. The seminar also tackled the way establishments do their sanitation, on boarding etc. Another topic they tackled is the new guest experience; Where a hotel or establishments provides the same guest experience but with a new approach like having a contactless reservation by doing in online. Checking temperature or health declaration form by filling it up via online or scanning it via QR code provided by an establishment.

The title of the webinar was rediscovering food and travel through blogging/ vlogging and making money from it. The speaker showed the ways and what to do with the content you want to do. The webinar also tackled the types of content you can do if you want to start vlogging or blogging. He also mentioned that blogging is the long-form of content while vlogging is digestible or visual content. Making vlogs or blogs can also make money. Not only that you can make money but you will also gain experience and knowledge while vlogging or blogging. Today, vlogging and blogging is the new era of traveling, now that we are in a pandemic, we cannot just go around and travel. And because of that, vlogging/blogging is one of the ways to travel freely. Because of the pandemic, a lot of us is just staying at home and just go to social media to check what is trending right now that’s why a lot of people now is making vlogs or blogs online because there’s a lot of people who is online and searching for travel blogs/vlogs. Overall, the webinar was full of knowledge and it also helped me know more about vlogging.

The webinar entitled Series 6: Wellness Focus - Rest and Reflect: Improving Well-being in times of pandemic is a new and fresh way to start off the weekend. Because the webinar was all about wellness and the host made us do some yoga. She also did some card reading for us which is a new way of getting the watcher’s attention. The webinar was fun and also relaxing because the speaker taught us some of the yoga techniques, she’s teaching to her yoga class. She also introduced laughing yoga to the webinar, which is a fun and exciting activity to do and a new way of yoga for me because this is the first time, I experienced this type of yoga. The speaker also tackled the topic of stress, which a lot of us today experience because of the pandemic. The main goal in this webinar was to interact and engage with the yoga exercise, which the yoga speaker was teaching us. In general, the yoga was very fun and also a new experience because the laughing yoga was a new experience for me and I think a lot of us, the watchers are also new to this type of yoga.

The speaker talked about the things that affect our minds or our mental states. The speaker also told us that a lot of people thinks that personal weaknesses or character flaws cause mental health problems. People with mental health problems can snap out of it if they try hard enough. But the truth is that mental illness is a very hard illness because you are fighting yourself, whether to give up or not. And a lot of people in this society think that having a mental illness is being crazy which is very absurd because mental illness is no joke, it is not a disease that is contagious or a disease that makes people go crazy. Mental illness is a battle within yourself that’s why a lot of people thinks a specific person is crazy. The problem with our society is that they see people with mental illness as weak or just overreacting. But the truth is that these kinds of people doesn’t need that kind of understanding. They need someone who will and can understand them because for them it is hard to understand themselves, so they need someone to guide them towards the right path.