Drysdale FEATURE
Drysdale Centre of Excellence is back! At the recent THA Awards for Excellence, Drysdale launched it new campaign to attract future industry leaders and highlight the importance of industry engagement. Drysdale Centre of Excellence, General Manager Lisa Punshon, was proud to unveil to the industry the newly revitalised Drysdale brand and vision. Ms Punshon leads a dynamic team of individuals who are all passionate about Tasmania’s tourism and hospitality industry. Ms Punshon stated that ‘with the growing demands of the industry, Drysdale Centre of Excellence has listened, we are educating the future tourism and hospitality leaders to meet the industry’s needs and to train students to be influential in their chosen field’. Drysdale is seeking to enrol students that have that same passion for the tourism and hospitality industry as the Drysdale teachers and staff. Drysdale has three Education Managers, all of whom have extensive experience in the industry. The Education Managers David Dunn – Launceston, Varun Khetarpal – Hobart and Timothy Cox – Devonport, seek out students that will meet the growing demands of our industry. David Dunn who joined the Drysdale Centre of Excellence team 12 months ago has extensive experience having come from Skills Tasmania and is the current Chairman for Festivale. David stated that ‘Drysdale provides excellent employment outcomes into the exciting and rapidly growing market – these industries are so important to Tasmania and our students to secure employment.’ As part of Drysdale’s revitalisation, two new positions were created to assist with Drysdale’s future direction. Claire Harrington been employed as Project Officer – Business Development. Prior to this role Claire worked for Business Events Tasmania as the Director of Sales. Claire’s skills as a relationship manager, business development and industry knowledge will enable her to support Drysdale’s apprentices, trainees and their employers along with promoting Drysdale to the broader community and industry. Michelle Jungfer has been employed as Project Officer – Drysdale Centre of Excellence, Michelle joins Drysdale with expertise in data analysis and vocational education training at Skills Tasmania. Michelle will provide project management support for the Revitalising Drysdale – a Centre of Excellence strategy and action plan, the establishment of a Drysdale Centre of Excellence at Claremont and Providore Place in Devonport. Drysdale Centre of Excellence is back, we are here to mould the future generation of tourism and hospitality professionals. There has never been a more exciting time to join in our rapidly growing industry and support the people that train your future staff.
August 2019 www.tha.asn.au
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