[Blind-international-students] Fwd: Information regarding contacting employers of V I persons in hotels in the U S.

[Reyazuddin, Yasmin]

Hi All, 
Payal has brought up some great ideas. The Hotel industry has customer
service center or reservation centers. Blind people are working here in
the US by getting specialized training in customer service. 
The National Statler Center for Careers in Hospitality service has some
of these trainings. Their website is www.statlercenter.org.
The center is in New York and the training is 6 weeks long. It is good
to know Braille and some computer with screen reader. It will depend on
what kind of software the hotel industry is using for reservations and
ensuring that the software could be made accessible. 
I know that there is lot of technical language but Payal, you can tell
the best. 
I hope you join this mailing list and we could share ideas. I am from
India, and lived in the US for 20 years. 



Yasmin Reyazuddin 
Aging & Disability Services 
Montgomery County Government 
Department of Health & Human Services 
401 Hungerford Drive (3rd floor) 
Rockville MD 20850 
240-777-0311 (MC311) 
240-777-1556 (personal) 
240-777-1495 (fax) 
office hours 8:30 am 5:00 pm 
Languages English, Hindi, Urdu, Braille 
 

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:blind-international-students-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:20 AM
To: blind-international-students at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blind-international-students] Fwd: Information regarding
contacting employers of V I persons in hotels in the U S.


Hi all, This person from India belonging to another mailing list is
looking for the following information. I wonder if any of you can
directly this person to the correct information source. Forwarded
message.

Vetri.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: payal <payal.theresidence at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 14:30:05 +0530
Subject: Information regarding contacting employers of V I persons in
hotels in the U S.
To: Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan <vadhimoolam at gmail.com>

Dear Vetri



Greetings from Hyderabad.



I'll start with introducing myself before proceeding further,. I'm
Payal, a member of Access India and seek your help with some information
as mentioned in my subject line.



Being a hotelier by profession before losing my sight and currently
employed by a hotel, but with limited scope of operation, I seek your
assistance in reaching the right persons/organizations.



I am looking at contacting organizations involved in the employment of
the visually impaired in the hotel industry in the U S, if any, so I
could get another perspective which then could possibly,be  replicated,
or used as a model to create opportunities in the hotel industry in
India which is so far unchartered territory.



Since you have been there for a while and from your mails guess have
contact with NFB and the like. Not sure If you could help by pointing me
in the right direction so I could  reach my goal, I'd be grateful. With
no idea how to go about this, I have written to you for guidance and
hope you could help. Sometimes getting an idea of how the international
market handles the likes of us could allow us here to insist on
emulating some of the standards set to allow another door to open. If
you're unable to do so, thet's fine.



Awaiting your response.



Payal

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