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Show Travel Council's Super Host Program To Start Garfield County will be one of only two southern Utah counties and eight cities in Utah to participate partici-pate in a pilot program of hospitality hospital-ity training for merchants, their supervisory su-pervisory personnel and their employees em-ployees under the Utah State Travel Council's new "Super Host" program. pro-gram. Garfield Travel Council Executive Execu-tive Director Bruce Fullmer said Tuesday he is looking for local interested in-terested people to get involved on the ground floor by participating in a special training program for developing de-veloping trainers who will execute the program in the county. The Utah Travel Council, after spending the past two years reviewing review-ing hospitality training programs used in other areas of the world, has contracted for a very successful ; Canadian program developed in British Bri-tish Columbia. A special training session will be offered in Park City starting July 15 to develop Super Host trainers for each of the particpating 10 cities and counties. "A few slots are still open for the ! pilot training session," said ! Fullmer, "and it's a great opportu- j nity for those who can envision the value of the program to the county." Fullmer said he hopes to see the time when all county business people peo-ple and their employees will have received the valuable training. Currently Cur-rently there are eight volunteers who have been selected to be instructed in-structed as master trainers to eventually even-tually work throughout the state on aaan as-needed basis. The Park City training that will be offered to others of those first few who take ; part will qualify them as Super Host trainers. Training session will be July 15-16 or July 17-18. Fullmer said the program is not only for tourism-related businesses but can benefit any business that takes part Upon returning from the class See Super Host Page 3A Super Host Program To Start From Page 1 on July 22, local trainers will be prepared to offer the course to any business or individual wanting to take part. Business owners must commit to training 75 percent of their supervisory personnel and at least 50 percent of their employees in the approximately eight-hour course. Eventually, said, Fullmer, he hopes to see the course offered at the high school level to each student stu-dent in local schools, with area businesses having among their criteria cri-teria for employment, a certificate of completion of the Super Host program. Participating businesses will display a Super Host decal, telling the public that their personnel person-nel are trained in hospitality, and state wide, publications and large signs will direct the public to "Watch For Super Host Businesses." Busi-nesses." Interested individuals should contact Fullmer at 676-8826 for additional ad-ditional information. |