Trevor Burgess: IHS Alumnus working his way up at The Oyster Box
by International Hotel School on 24/11/11 at 3:48 pm
We chatted to 28-year old Trevor Burgess to get the 411 on how he went from studying at The International Hotel Schoolʼs Durban campus, to Hotel Concierge and now Guest Relations Butler at The Oyster Box Hotel in Umhlanga.
Trevor was born in Pietermaritzburg, and decided to study at IHS because he thought he would open [...]
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