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Meeting Minutes from HEDNA's Regional Meeting
2001 December, San Diego, CA
Meeting Name: Curriculum Committee
Location: San Diego Chair: Michael Cohen
Date: December 07, 2001 Co-Chair: Denise Bynum-Jones

Agenda - Action Items/Issues

Item No. Subject High Level Summary/Issues
1 Chair/Co-Chair Michael and Denise volunteered, with member approval
2 Committee Mission Reiterated to members
3 Intro Guide Revision Judy is doing the initial revisions
4 GDS Trainers Guide Denise is coordinating the revisions
5 E-Learning HSA work in progress

Items/Issues

No. OpenDate Description Resolution Assigned To Target Date
1   Committee Mission

Reviewed the Committee Mission and reorganization of HEDNA committees

Training and education, versus a resource center. Goal is to be a true steering committee for HSA/HEDNA U, and future educational programs.
  N/A N/A
2   Intro Guide      
      Revisions Judy Burns to do initial revisions Judy/ Tammy Mar. 31, 2002
    Current cost:
$49 for members
$69 for non-members
Should only charge to cover costs, not as a revenue generating item Tammy/BOD Feb. 28, 2002
    Why do we charge for it? Can we make it available in other ways (i.e. electronically via the "e-Learning" module), that may be less cost prohibitive. HSA to provide costing to Committee for hard copies HSA Jan. 31, 2002
    Can it be available in other languages? HSA to do a proposal for how to make the training and guides available in other languages HSA Mar. 31, 2002
3   GDS Trainers Guide To be reviewed annually by respective GDS reps for revisions, then forwarded to Ellen Gallant for posting on Web site Denise Jan. 31, 2002
4   HEDNA Web Site Using threaded discussion capabilities to respond and inform. Michael Denise Ongoing
5   HEDNA U      
    Program was last revised in August 2001
    Participant feedback is that the overall program content is very good
    Feedback also shows that the greatest value is from Day Two of the workshop, but still find Day One useful and necessary
    2001 Profit from public venue "road show" workshops (non-HEDNA conferences and not Singapore): $13,051
    To date: 17 cities, with an average of 15 participants per workshop (low of 5, high of 35)
    Trained-to-date (Nov '01): 288
Expected by year-end: 358
    Marketing initiatives are driven by HSA. Other opportunities with HITEC, EyeForTravel, and HSMAI in 2002.
    Possible to have a presence at other conferences/shows to help get the word out?
    Q1/Q2 2002 will do Atlanta, Houston, New York, Phoenix, Chicago, L.A. Q2-Q4 2002 roll out in ASPAC and Latin America (Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio).
    Caribbean location is in the works with CHA and CTO
    Working with specific hotel companies to do a workshop for them.can only be done if the company is a HEDNA member since HEDNA owns the rights/content of the workshop.
    Attendees can get credits towards various certifications Need to promote the ability to get credits, included in all material. HSA Mar. 31, 2002
    Should we offer volume discounts to hotel companies, if they send X number of participants to a given workshop? Determine discount pricing, if any Tammy BOD Feb. 28, 2002
6   E-Learning On-line Learning Center in Q2 or Q3 2002.

Link: http://hedna.hsa.com

Working model is on this site for us to review.Currently it is just from the training guide, but will be more of a complete learning center with more information in the future.

There are hyper-links, graphs, charts, audio, supplemental information, help screens, etc. throughout.

Updates to the program content should go to HSA.

Can create an orientation to the workshop/course. Can also have a net forum or web-cast.

Has a resource library included as well.

   HSA  May 31, 2002

Attendees (C=Conference Call Attendee, A=Attended In-Person)

  Attendees Company Name EMail
1 Tammy Peter Cendant Corp tammy.peter@rsd.cendant.com
2 Mark Lowery Adam's Mark H & R Mlowery@adamsmark.com
3 Tina Black Kimpton Group Tina.black@kimptongroup.com
4 Denise Bynum-Jones TIMS Denisebynumjones@tmsreports.com
5 Christine Tan Hospitality Consulting Tanchristi@aol.com
6 Michael Hampton HSA Mhampton@hsa.com
7 Roberta Berry Shangri-La H & R r.barry@shangri-la.com
8 Keith Harrison Raffles International H&R Keith.harrison@raffles.com
9 Michael Cohen Raffles International H&R Michael.cohen@raffles.com
10 Barbara Curtis-Miyao Nikko Hotels International Bmiyao@nikkohotels.com
11 Joe Flanagan Kerry Club Hotels Joe@kerryclub.com
12 Judy Burns HTC Judy@burns-htc.com


   
 

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