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We are looking forward to welcoming you to the EuroCHRIE 2012 conference, “Hospitality for a Better World”, to be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• EuroCHRIE 2012 website
• 25-27 October 2012: save the date

Joel Steiner, Alumni 2001 du Programme de Diplôme de gestion en hôtellerie et restauration, nous raconte sont parcours professionnel et ses études à l'Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.

Lausanne Hospitality Consulting (LHC), the the knowledge expansion subsidiary of Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) has signed an agreement on 17 Jan 2012, to assist the Dusit Thani College (DTC) to develop a new, benchmark International Hospitality Management Programme for Thailand and the ASEAN region.

We are pleased to introduce current students individual profiles, with their career objectives. Please do not hesitate to contact them if you require any further information.

New York, November 14, 2011 – The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), the world’s first hotel school founded in 1893, organized a panel discussion on Friday, November 11 in conjunction with the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) that brought experts from both sides of the Atlantic together to discuss sustainable hospitality. This event followed the recent creation of EHL’s New York-Lausanne Society in collaboration with the Swiss Consulate General in New York and Presence Switzerland. The aim of this association is to promote academic and economic collaboration and exchange in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship in the hospitality industry between Switzerland and the US.

Our 2-year Hotel Management Diploma is for working professionals with some hospitality experience.

This intensive, innovative course of study will help you either to launch your own business, or to advance your career in hotel & motel management.

EHL Diploma Programme corresponds to UK hospitality qualifications such as BTEC, excedel or City & Guilds, offering hotel management training at svq level 2, and hospitality supervisory training at nvq level 3.

The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in our Job Fair, to be held on Tuesday 20 March 2012 from 9.30am to 5pm.

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The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), the world’s first hotel school founded in 1893, is organizing a panel discussion today in conjunction with the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) to bring experts from both sides of the Atlantic together to discuss sustainable hospitality. This event follows the recent creation of EHL’s New York-Lausanne Society in collaboration with the Swiss Consulate General in New York and Presence Switzerland. The aim of this association is to promote academic and economic collaboration and exchange in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship in the hospitality industry between Switzerland and the US.

Son Altesse Royale le Prince Robert du Luxembourg, Président de Domaine Clarence Dillon, la société familiale propriétaire des fameux Château Haut Brion et Château La Mission Haut-Brion, et de Clarence Dillon Wines, la société de négoce assurant la production et la distribution de Clarendelle, a honoré l’EHL de sa visite le jeudi 3 octobre 2011.

L’EHL réitère ses vœux avec Feldschlösschen L’Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, sous les impulsions de son Directeur Général Michel Rochat, est actuellement dans une phase de développement de son rayonnement auprès des secteurs académique, économique et politique. L’EHL favorise effectivement les partenariats avec les institutions, fondations et autres entreprises des secteurs alimentaire, du luxe et de l’hôtellerie ; et ce, autant dans le cadre d’évènements publics que dans le l’établissement de relations privilégiées avec de grandes marques.

Réaffirmant sa volonté de contribuer au développement de l’innovation et de l’entreprenariat dans les métiers de l’accueil, l’Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) a remis à l’Ambassade de Suisse à Paris le Prix « Société Paris-Lausanne ». En octroyant chaque année ce Prix décerné par un comité de sélection, l’EHL consacre un projet innovant porté par une entreprise ou un entrepreneur. Cette année, le Prix a été décerné à M. Bruno Wolfisberg, pour son projet TentSo.

Based on the success of the newly created Paris-Lausanne Society last year in Paris, Prof. Michel Rochat, Director General at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, has signed the Foundation Chart of the London-Lausanne Society together with His Excellency, Mr. Anton Thalmann, Swiss Ambassador to UK, on the 15 September 2011 at the Swiss Embassy in London. The London-Lausanne Society shall be a platform to promote new partnerships and collaborations between different key stakeholders such as entrepreneurs, the industry to Universities and Business School together with the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.

EHL CERTIFICATION - With a total of 7 million reais investment, the Estacio Campus Chácara Flora officially opened its doors on Wednesday 1 June 2011 with the presence of Mr Michel Rochat, Director General of Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and of Mr Alain Ducasse

A joint creation of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne and Indiana University, the goal of I-Chlar is to bring together every two years the international researchers and professionals of the hospitality industry for a Management School for Hotels and Food & Beverage.
The Institut Paul Bocuse will host this latest edition on 7 and 8 July, in partnership with IAE Lyon - Université Jean Moulin (Lyon 3).
I-Chlar 2011 will bring together almost 80 participants on the theme of: “Balancing Art, Innovation & Performance, in Food & Beverage, Hotel and Leisure Industries”.

Students from the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne won the “Prix du Jeune Entrepreneur 2011” for their project, PocketStaff, on 24 May in Bern. The team from the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne therefore came in ahead of those from ETH of Zurich and the University of St-Gall and carried off the CHF 20,000.00 to bring their project to fruition.

Visionnez le webcast de la Table Ronde INTEHL "Gastronomie hôtelière et santé" qui s'est déroulé le 4 mai 2011.

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A nouveau, en 2010, l’EHL a été désignée comme la meilleure école hôtelière de la planète par les directeurs d'hôtels 5 étoiles.

Responsible Corporate Management and Sustainable Development are becoming more and more topical and inescapable. Social, economic and environmental changes are happening at an unprecedented rate, a phenomenon which will only gather speed in years to come. Restrained access to resources, the demographic bomb, growing inequalities, climate change: these are the new challenges that companies, big and small, must face to build their strategy and durability over the long term.

EHL and the Ecole de Tourisme et d’Hôtellerie (EHT) Paul Dubrule in Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday 8 April 2011 at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland.

In view of the interests of both schools to create links to academic and cultural cooperation and to achieve the goals they have set themselves as high-end institutions of education, this agreement aims at creating a multidisciplinary relationship between EHT and EHL. Its goal is to create an environment favourable to various activities which may be undertaken for the benefit of both schools.