Ludus Lab

Inclusive Hotel Frontline Training for Guests with Disabilities

Course Code

Course Schedule

Pricing

$380/pax onwards

Trainers Info

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Law Yock Song

Yock Song is a tourism and hospitality veteran with 15+ years of experience. He leverages his expertise in program design, operational management, and stakeholder engagement to create inclusive training programs for the industry, specifically focusing on accessibility for people with disabilities.

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Training Course Overview

Inclusive Frontline Training for Hotels & Attractions in Singapore

Help your frontline teams serve guests with disabilities, seniors and visitors with diverse access needs with greater confidence, empathy and professionalism.

Ludus Lab’s From Empathy to Action training program equips hotel and attraction staff with practical skills to support wheelchair users, visually impaired guests, hearing impaired guests, autistic visitors and guests with sensory sensitivities.

Designed for real guest-facing environments, this program is ideal for:

  • Singapore hotels and resorts
  • Attractions and places of interest
  • Front office and concierge teams
  • F&B and banquet teams
  • Guest experience and visitor services teams
  • HR, L&D and service excellence teams
  • Facilities, security and operations teams

Programme Objectives

Goal: To equip frontline hotel staff with the confidence, empathy, and practical skills to deliver exceptional, dignified, and seamless service to guests with diverse disabilities. The training covers interactions with persons who are wheelchair users, visually impaired, hearing impaired, or have autism and sensory needs. All scenarios are designed to reflect common guest interactions that occur within hotel operations.

Philosophy: Inclusive service begins with understanding before action. This program builds a strong theory and empathy foundation (including autism awareness), before moving into applied, frontline-based practice. Staff learn to recognise diverse needs, ask respectfully, adapt confidently, and respond without assumptions.

Who Should Attend?

For Singapore Hotels

Ideal for front office, concierge, housekeeping, F&B, banquet, security and guest relations teams who interact with guests daily.

Staff will learn how to support guests during check-in, room orientation, dining, wayfinding, accessible room use and service recovery.

For Attractions and Places of Interest

Suitable for visitor services, ticketing, operations, guides, ushers, safety teams and guest experience teams.

Staff will learn how to assist visitors with disabilities during arrival, queueing, movement through galleries or zones, accessible route planning, sensory-sensitive situations and emergency or service recovery scenarios.

For Frontliners

This program gives staff simple, practical and respectful techniques they can use immediately, such as:

  • How to offer help without assuming
  • How to guide a visually impaired guest
  • How to communicate with a hearing impaired guest
  • How to support a wheelchair user safely
  • How to recognise sensory overload
  • How to use clear, step-by-step language
  • For HR, L&D and Service Excellence Teams

This program supports staff capability building, inclusive service standards, accessibility readiness and organisational culture.

It can be used as part of:

  • Service excellence training
  • Disability inclusion training
  • Guest experience improvement
  • DEI and inclusive workplace initiatives
  • Accessibility readiness programs
  • Tourism and hospitality capability development

Program Outline

Time

Duration

Module Title & Focus

09:00 – 09:30

30 min

1. The Business & The Heart Case

09:30 – 10:30

60 min

2. Voices of Experience: Lived Insights

10:30 – 10:45

15 min

Tea Break & Transition

10:45 – 12:45

120 min

3. Understanding Autism & Sensory-Aware Service (Theory + Shared Application)

12:45 – 14:15

90 min

Experiential Lunch: Sight, Sound & Sustenance (experience lunch… blindfolded)

14:15 – 15:45

90 min

4. The Ludus Lab Immersion: Applied Stations (co-create with the hotel/attraction on areas of focus for frontliners)

15:45 – 16:00

15 min

Break / Energy Reset

16:00 – 16:30

30 min

5. Synthesis & Best Practices Review

16:30 – 17:00

30 min

6. Guided Reflection & Next Steps

Additional Details

  • Format: On-site, hands-on and scenario-based
  • Duration: Approx. 8 hours, or split across 2 half-days
  • Fee: SGD $380 per participant nett
  • Group Size: Minimum 15 participants, recommended cap of 24 participants
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