News - Inside EHL

Thursday, 20 November 2008, more than 200 guests came to the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) to celebrate the inauguration of its new administrative wing.

A group of guidance counsellors from different international schools around the world was recently invited for a two-day visit to the EHL campus.

On 24 November, H.E. Ms Liu Yandong, Member of the Peoples’ Republic of China’s Council of State and H.E. Mr Zhou Ji, Minister of Education visited the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne for a general presentation of the School and a visit of the campus.

Why Scottish hospitality needs a Swiss role model.

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Gastronomia presents a great variety of restaurant and hotel equipment, design innovations, interior accessories, food and beverage topics and many other. The leaders and specialists meet in Lausanne to debate about the trends in the sector, discover the innovations and, of course, create new professional relationships. The exhibition is held every two years and attracts over 45’000 visitors and about 500 participants.

The theme of CMP 09 “Personal Branding” will combine the theory and practice of discovering yourself - as a person, as a professional, as a leader - and your skills.

In a first for both Kempinski Hotels and EHL, Kempinski’s senior management held a top-level meeting at EHL from 22 to 24 October 2008.

Dr Hilary Murphy has won the Best Paper Award in the Technology category at the Eurochrie conference 2008 in Dubai, for her paper co-written with Prof. Harry de Jongh (Hotelschool The Hague) entitled “Student perceptions of IT/IS subject learning in hospitality management degree programmes – a comparative study of “deep learning".

Investors tend to keep objects longer

Munich (October 10, 2008). The financial crisis is getting private equity companies into trouble. Their concept of selling off (hotel) companies bought and restructured within a relatively short period of time and make a profit no longer works.

At the same time, the restrictive financial policy these days makes new takeovers more difficult. In a panel discussion at the "Hospitality Industry Dialogue" in the course of the Expo Real Munich real estate trade fair, the industry definitely refused to give in.

The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and Siemens announced the signing of a Partnership Agreement today during a Round Table on the new “Business Models” for the hospitality sector.

Distinguished speakers series

01.10.2008

Presented by Stephen Alden, CEO, Maybourne Group

Distinguished Speaker Series

23.09.2008

Presented by Scott Woroch, Executive Vice President of Four Seasons

Orientation Week is over for this year’s incoming students as they begin classes together with the students from all the later years. Suddenly the school is filled with the intense, fast-paced energy of life on campus.

This week, before the students arrive and the school swings into action, EHL teachers are on campus following a fascinating seminar on learning, assessment and feedback.

This is the first report of its kind that provides benchmarks for the hotel sector on comparative IT spending.

On 22 July the six Swiss triathletes who have been selected for the Olympic Games in Beijing will be flying to China with the hope of bringing home some medals.

A delegation from EHL visited China to review the campus development of the Beijing Hospitality Institute (BHI).

For the 5th year in a row, EHL hosted the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) advisory board meeting. The school's long history with the biggest hotel investment conference in Europe, held annually in Berlin, has gone from strength to strength.

Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Former Vice President of the United States of America, visits the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.

The growth of the Spa and Wellness industry has been well documented over the past 18 months. At the recent Global Spa Summit held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City from 18-20 May, four EHL students had the opportunity to learn first-hand just how important this segment of the industry has become and how it will continue to grow.