About the Program

We take care of everything! - visas, travel, insurance, continuous support

The Resort America program is a unique form of cultural exchange. Resort America provides a comprehensive package for participants that includes:

• One way international flight
• Pre-departure and/or arrival orientation sessions
• Support throughout the season, including 24-hour emergency service
• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage while in the United States to a limit of $500,000 per accident or illness for each participant. Baggage insurance is optional.
• J-1 visa arrangements

Participants come from Eastern and Western Europe. Although exact dates of availability vary, participants normally arrive mid to late June and work for at least 12 weeks with an optional extension. As J-1 visa participants, they are legally permitted to work in the U.S. for up to four months. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) typically allows participants an additional one month “grace period” exclusively for travel and sightseeing.

What We Offer

In-Depth Application Procedures
Our trained and experienced interviewers meet personally with each applicant. We require detailed interviewer reports, profiles, criminal background checks, health forms, and current references.

We go to great lengths to present you with an accurate picture of each applicant’s personal background, skills, experience and suitability.

Dependable Recruitment Network
Resort America has been providing international staffing solutions for more than a decade and has an excellent worldwide reputation.

We attract a mature, talented and diverse pool of applicants, and provide staff for many different types of resorts—country clubs, lodges, RV camping resorts, inns and hotels.

Largest Selection
Hundreds of applicants from all over the world will qualify for the Resort America program in 2007. We will work with you to select just the right match for your resort.

Commitment to Quality
Building and maintaining a relationship with you is our main priority. You will find that our staff will do everything that it takes to make sure that we attend to your needs.

Our Account Representatives know that a good match is important, and all our staff know that good service doesn't end there.

Resort America's Fees
To help you retain your best talent, Resort America offers higher pocket money to repeat staff. And as a thank you to those resorts that hire repeat staff from us, Resort America offers a reduction in program fees. The fees below include airfare to New York for participants. Resort America makes onward arrangements for one way travel to most major U.S. airports. For information about specific domestic fares, please speak with an Account Representative.

• The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has imposed SEVIS tracking fees for J-1 participants. A SEVIS fee of $35 will be added for each participant arrival.

• An airport tax in the amount of $25 will be added for each participant who arrives in the U.S. on a Resort America flight.

• Our carriers may levy minor fuel surcharges and we reserve the right to pass these charges on to participating resorts.

How the numbers work

Program Information
Fifty percent of the total invoice due to Resort America is payable June 1 and the remaining balance is due on August 1.

• Because Resort America makes substantial payments for transportation, orientation and other costs in advance of arrival, it is necessary to assess a finance charge of 1.5% per month for delinquent payments.

• For staff hired and subsequently released without valid substantiation before arrival, a cancellation fee of $400 will be charged.

• The Resort America program assumes a 40-hour work week and does not include overtime. We have been advised that the various services provided to participants including room, board and pocket money conform to federal minimum wage requirements.

• After the 12-week period, participants may work up to an additional four weeks, visa permitting. You are free to negotiate compensation independently with participants; however, they must be compensated in the same manner as your American staff. The minimum compensation after 12 weeks is $200 per week in pocket money plus room and board.

• Once participants have completed their commitment to you, they are free to travel and see the U.S. Under the terms of their visa, participants must return home within five months of their date of arrival.