{"id":24558,"date":"2012-08-10T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24558"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:59:18","slug":"bha-offers-online-foreign-language-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/bha-offers-online-foreign-language-program","title":{"rendered":"BHA Offers Online Foreign Language Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24559\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24559\" title=\"livemocha-language\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/livemocha-language.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/livemocha-language.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/livemocha-language-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live Mocha Online Language courses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of its initiatives to assist businesses with tapping into more international markets, the Bahamas Hotel Association and the Bahamas Hotel Association of Human Resource<br \/>\nProfessionals (BHAHRP), in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism, is offering a low-cost, easy to use foreign language speaking program for front line, supervisory and management staff.<\/p>\n<p>BHA launched the program five months ago with seven hotels to gauge response.\u00a0 It has far exceeded expectations, with over 1,200 employees enrolled.\u00a0 We\u2019re now rolling it out to all members as well as broader tourism industry stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The program is designed for all levels \u2013 and can support employees with using basic words and phrases to becoming conversational.\u00a0 Often, in our industry, providing basic words and phrases goes a long way towards making a guest feel welcome and comfortable.<br \/>\n<object style=\"width: 428px; height: 241px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"428\" height=\"241\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7xpvw_G_MVI\" \/><embed style=\"width: 428px; height: 241px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"428\" height=\"241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7xpvw_G_MVI\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nBHA has entered into an agreement with LiveMocha , the world\u2019s largest provider of online foreign language training, providing an attractive enrollment rate to members.\u00a0 The offer extends to training for over 35 different languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, and Mandarin.\u00a0 The normal retail price to register directly with LiveMocha is $100\/person.\u00a0 We are making it available to members for $10 per registrant.<br \/>\nNote:\u00a0 this is an introductory offer and the cost will increase early next year.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this offer excites you as much as it does us. \u00a0BHA, the Ministry of Tourism, and other stakeholders are working a number of fronts to realize the potential of the Latin American and other overseas markets.\u00a0 Research reveals the tremendous opportunity which The Bahamas has to grow the Latin American (up over 80% in past year) and other non-English speaking markets.\u00a0 Exit surveys of Latin American visitors since the start of direct service a year ago by Copa Airlines show a high level of satisfaction for The Bahamas but also show a high level of frustration in our language limitations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/livemocha-registration-form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Registration Form<\/a> <span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>(98KB PDF)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its initiative to assist businesses with tapping into more international markets, the Bahamas Hotel Association is offering a low-cost, easy to use foreign language speaking program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,21,210],"class_list":["post-24558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-educational","tag-employees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}