Hotel Receptionist vocational qualification - Professional English

To bring together the skills and knowledge required to receive and welcome customers:
- welcoming customers to the reception service (in French and English)
- advising customers on how to organise their stay in the best possible way (in French and English)
- promoting, communicating and selling the establishment's services
- processing booking requests for all hotel services (in French and English)
- managing and implementing customer arrival and departure operations
- closing the reception service activity
- transmitting and updating information relating to the reception service activity

Integration period: Welcome, presentation and sharing of training objectives and the challenges of the job, getting to know the professional environment, raising awareness of sustainable development, adapting the training path (35 hours)

Receiving customers face-to-face or by any other means of remote communication in French and English: Identifying needs and meeting expectations, providing information on the services on offer and how the services work, checking customer satisfaction and reporting to line management, recording and dealing with complaints, mastering the establishment's safety rules and reception procedures.

Advising customers on organising their stay: responding to requests for practical and tourist information, updating their own knowledge of the range of tourist services on offer, based on an analysis of their needs advising and facilitating the organisation of their travel arrangements, requesting and booking a service from an external service provider

Proceeding with the arrival and departure of customers: checking the terms of the reservation and granting access to rooms and services, checking payment guarantees, initiating prepayments, using hotel reservation software to enter arrivals and departures, completing billing elements, updating the schedule to check and monitor the status of the offer.

Contribute to updating information relating to the activity of the reception service and close its activity: based on consumption and turnover statements per outlet and the till report, check customer accounts, update accounts receivable, close the till and the operating day, edit and communicate activity reports, draft emails and letters to initiate follow-up of commercial relations, carry out room occupancy status, monitor e-reputation, monitor the local competitive market and suggest adjustments (rates, packages), prospect remotely.

This course is divided into two skill blocks:

BC01 - Carry out operations relating to customer stays

Welcome and advise customers at the reception desk

Process reservation requests for hotel services

Proceed with arrival and departure operations

Closing daily and monthly activity

Contributing to the management of online distribution

Contributing to the monitoring of the hotel establishment's e-reputation

• Professional qualification from the Ministry of Labour Level 4

Find out more about this qualification (RNCP38870, exact wording of the diploma, name of the certifier, registration date of the qualification) by clicking here.

• All audiences

Be motivated by this job, have a good image of it, be aware of and accept the conditions under which it is carried out and the responsibilities involved: staggered working hours, pressure management, periods of overactivity, prolonged standing, etc.)

Have a fairly good level of written and spoken English, a good level of written and spoken French, have a perfect command of basic mathematical operations (arithmetic, proportionality, ratios, simple equations).
If possible, experience of working in a hotel or customer reception area

16 people

• Fully classroom-based training

• Personalised course
• Group lessons

• Room equipped with networked computer workstations
• Plateforme Learning Management System
• Unmarked room with video projector

Positioning upstream of training entry.

Interviews, remediation with the educational referent and/or company referent during training.

Taking account of beneficiary satisfaction during and at the end of training.

Possibility of post-training support.

For beneficiaries with disabilities: possible adaptation of training and certification methods, support by the TH referent.

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Examiners accredited by the DCL and TOEIC.

Teachers certified by the French Education Nationale, trainers with 3 years' higher education qualifications and significant experience in adult education, professional speakers.

Trainers experienced in individualised learning.

In-course evaluations (ICE)

Present yourself with the liaison form from the prescriber (Mission locale, Pôle emploi...).

Interview by appointment.

Training is available between 15 and 45 days before the start of the course, depending on the funding body. Please contact us.

• to 20 nov 2025 09h30
         Collège Marcel Pagnol - Rue Jean Marie Bonnemaison - Pertuis

Integration into employment as a hotel receptionist

Access for people with disabilities

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