HFTP sponsorship accelerates debut of EI's online certification exams: the CHAE and CHTP exams will be the first to go online, featuring new questions.The Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) will launch online testing for its professional certification Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure that he/she is qualified to perform a job or task. programs in the first quarter of 2007, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP HFTP Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals HFTP Hybrid-Fiber Twisted Pair ). The sponsorship money will enable EI to purchase testing software and upgrade its servers to host online testing for its professional certification programs. The first certification exams to go online will be HFTP's Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE CHAE Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive CHAE Centre for Higher and Adult Education (South Africa) ) and Certified Hospitality Technology Professional (CHTP CHTP Certified Healing Touch Practitioner CHTP Certified Hospitality Technology Professional ) exams. "This is a win-win for HFTP and EI," said Scott Pierce, EI' s president and COO. "We're appreciative of HFTP's generosity and excited that their sponsorship has accelerated the opportunity for us to bring our certification program testing online." Bringing testing online will enable EI to further increase its international presence and make it more convenient for busy hospitality professionals to pursue certification without having to attend an on-site testing session. "Due to the proliferation of technology and globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation in our industry, there has been a real push for hospitality certifications offered online," said Frank Wolfe, CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. , HFTP executive vice president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Since HFTP is the industry's resource for finance and technology information, it was only logical that we would use our resources to help produce online testing." HFTP vice president Agnes DeFranco, Ed.D., CHAE, and professor at the University of Houston, added, "Partnering with the Educational Institute to provide HFTP's CHAE and CHTP exams online aligns exactly with the association's goals. In addition to increasing our professional status within the hospitality industry, online exams and review courses provide professionals all over the world the opportunity to earn one or both of HFTP' s designations without traveling anywhere." The HFTP Certification Task Force spent the last year reworking and updating the Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE) and the Certified Hospitality Technology Professional (CHTP) designations. The changes include the creation of a Code of Ethics Code of Ethics can refer to:
For more information on the CHAE and/or CHTP, visit the certification page at www.hftp.org or contact the HFTP certification liaison at certification@hftp.org. For information on the Educational Institute's professional certification programs, visit the certification page at www.ei-ahla.org or contact certification@ahla.com. |
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