Institute of tourism and hotel trade of Quebec

the Institute of tourism and hotel trade of Quebec (or ITHQ ) is one of the most important establishments of formation specialized in Tourisme, Hôtellerie and Restauration with the Canada. Founded in 1968 by the Government of Quebec, the ITHQ enjoys today a reputation of excellence which exceeds our borders. Following the example great establishments of formation which one finds elsewhere with the Canada, in Europe and the the United States, the ITHQ makes it possible to acquire high level, applicable competences everywhere in the world where is exerted a dynamic tourist activity. The Institute is besides the only Québécois hotel institution which gives regular programs of order Secondaire and Collégial, teaching Universitaire, continuing education as well as services with industry. That they are arts of the table, the techniques of tourism or the hotel management and restoration, the ITHQ can equip the apprentice to the manager aguerri. During four last decades, the ITHQ formed more than 8.000 graduates who make today career in the great national and international tourist centers.

The Institute is located at the 3535, Rue Saint-Denis with Montreal, on the Mount-Royal Plateau (subway Sherbrooke).

The Institute of yesterday with today

1968 The Gouvernement of Quebec founds the ITHQ in order to develop an tourism industry of world class and to ensure this one a highly qualified labor.

1976 The ITHQ moves in its current building, Rue Saint-Denis, in the middle of the tourist Montreal.

1987 The ITHQ offers the programme of control in sciences and technology of tourism of the French University of Toulouse-the-Mirail.

1988 The ITHQ becomes a company of State managed by representatives of tourism industry, hotel and restoration.

1991 The ITHQ joins the Université from Quebec in Montreal and offers a new programme of Baccalaureat in management of tourism and hotel trade.

1995 The Research center applied is created in collaboration with partners of industry.

1997 The ITHQ signs an agreement with Hydro-Quebec with an aim of improving energy efficiency of its systems and of testing an electrical equipment of cooking of new generation.

1998 The Institute inaugurates the new kitchen and the showroom Hydro-Quebec, both equipped with equipment to the fine point of technology.

2000 A laboratory of sommellery is arranged at the Institute for the training of the pupils and the professionals of the medium of the restoration, in partnership with the Société of alcohols of Quebec.

2003 The Gouvernement of Quebec invests 39 million $ CA in the restoration of the building and the modernization of pedagogical equipment of the Institute.

2003 The Foundation of the ITHQ is setting-up.

2004 The Institute launches a new range of programs to the enriched contents and the renewed methods of training: the programs Signature ITHQ.

2005 End of renovation works of the ITHQ, reopening of its hotel and inauguration of new Restoring Institute.

The ITHQ receives the Educator price off the year at the time of the 17th Annual Pinnacle Awards in Toronto.

2006 The ITHQ receives the Medal of the General governor in architecture of the royal Institute of architecture of Canada and the Conseil of Arts of Canada for its contribution to the urban design.

A single concept in its kind

The ITHQ has incomparable competitive advantages. It is located at two steps of the Latin Quarter and the center of the businesses of Montreal, a tourist city more than cash three million inhabitants. Been next to at a station of Subway (Sherbrooke), the building of the ITHQ counts ten stages (21 000 m2), including a hotel of teaching application of 42 rooms as well as a research center applied.

Entirely renovated in 2003-2004, the building of the ITHQ is equipped with the equipment and the tools teaching most powerful which is: food sensory Analysis and chemistry laboratories, workshops of Kitchen, Pastry making, Bakery and Chocolate factory, workshop cooled for the courses of Delicatessen, room of sommellery, Multi-media information center , auditorium of 85 places for the university education, and language laboratories Data-processing, renewed information technology infrastructure, audio-visual services, physical room of conditioning and student Coffee. Moreover, the population coed can carry out various transactions on line starting from Internet site of the Institute for, inter alia, communicate with their teachers, to have access to electronic documentation, to consult their schedule, etc

Professors experienced and connected on the job market

If the ITHQ enjoys today a reputation of excellence, it is that it always knew to work out distinctive programs of teaching, fastened with the needs for the industry, and whose innovative teaching approach is supported by a qualified teaching staff. The Institute is proud of its teaching staff more than cash 75 specialists in arts in the table, hotel management and of the Restauration, Tourisme, Communication S Marketing, languages as well as primary products like the Mathématiques, the Philosophie and the Informatique. Several nationalities are côtoient there, mainly Québécois, French and Italian. Recognized like experts in their field as well by industry as by the media, several professors of the ITHQ take part in radio programs and of television, sit at jurys with the national scales and international and write articles in the newspapers and specialized magazines.

The teaching team of the ITHQ counts a critical mass of experts in management of hotel trade, restoration and tourism, specialized in various disciplines of the management, which they are marketing of the services, management of the human Resources and employment relationships, of Finances, quality of the services, organisational or different strategy, project management. The majority of them made academic works of second cycle in administration, all confused disciplines. In addition to one formation of point in their respective field, the professors of the ITHQ must obligatorily have a relevant experiment of work in the medium of hotel trade and the restoration.

In addition, the ITHQ publishes or collaborates in the publication of works written by its professors, on arts of the table, in particular of the recipe books for the general public and the technical works intended for the personnel of the houses of teaching. The know-how of the ITHQ and the expertise of its professors can thus radiate outside its walls.

A commercial hotel with teaching vocation

The ITHQ is among the rare hotel schools in the world to have its own hotel of teaching application accommodating of true customers and making it possible to acquire an experiment in real situation, under the vigilant eye of the professors, the monitors and the hotel personnel. This integration of the hotel at the Institute makes it possible to the pupils to try out hotel new technologies and of restoration, in collaboration with its research center applied and its partners of industry.

This characteristic, which once again distinguishes the teaching offered to the ITHQ, makes it possible its pupils to receive each year more than 32.000 hours of additional training for the whole of the functions associated with the world with hotel industry: reception, the caretaker's lodge, administration, service of restaurant and kitchen.

Equipped with 42 rooms - including 2 continuations - of a dining room, of 4 rooms of banquet and with meeting being able to receive to 150 people as well as bar and of an interior parking, the Hotel of the Institute is classified 4 stars by the Corporation of the tourism industry of Quebec (CITQ).

Funds for teaching advance

The ITHQ gathered important partners in order to set up the Foundation of the ITHQ. The objective is to promote research as well as the continuation of higher learning in fields of tourism, hotel trade and the restoration. Allied strategic of the Institute, it collects and manages funds coming from Entreprises, Organisme S and Individu S in order to finance various programs of research and grants.

The Foundation contributes moreover to the realization of various projects in support to the formation, the such development of new programs of studies, the modernization of buildings and acquisition of equipment of point, to name only these. Thanks to the generosity of its givers, the Foundation of the ITHQ allots each year to its pupils approximately 100.000 $ CA out of grants or advanced training course.

Partnerships

The ITHQ functions in partnership with:

Hydro-Quebec
SAQ
the “ foundation of ITHQ ”

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