Benita Bezuidenhout

Academy Manager / Lecturer
(Food & Beverage)

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other - Walter Elliot

Benita did in-house hotel training with Holiday Inn, specialising in Food and Beverage Operations.

She completed various additional courses in the following fields: Advance Assessor Course, One Minute Manager, On-the-job-training, Recruitment and Selection of Staff, Executive Negotiating Skills. She obtained her Wine Diploma through the Cape Wine Academy. She is currently working toward designing and developing outcomes bases assessment.

She has been in the hospitality and travel industry for 30 years obtaining experience in passenger liners, industrial/contract catering operations, events management.  She managed restaurants, hotel banqueting departments and hotel food and beverage departments. She was Key Accounts Sales Executive for Fedics Food Services, Area Sales Manager of Avis Rent a Car and managed a tour operating business. She was involved in training people both in the operational as well as sales divisions.

She has been a lecturer in Food and Beverage Management at The Capital Hotel School and Training Academy for 11 years and she is also the Manager of the CHS Training Academy.

Benita also presents the Tertiary Preliminary and Certificate wine courses part-time for the Cape Wine Academy.

She is a member of Skål International, of which she was President for 6 years.

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