Profile
OverviewThe Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is a leading hospitality school which is part of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland. EHL provides the solid management education of a top business school while basing its programmes on its own unique educational philosophy: hospitality management as both a science and an art. |
History and heritageThe Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne was the first hotel school in the world. Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne was founded over a hundred years ago, in 1893, during the Belle Epoque when Switzerland was experiencing an unprecedented boom in tourism and there was an urgent need for skilled and professional personnel, at every level from management down. |
Organization and governance
EHL is a not-for-profit school that is organized on three levels of governance: the Board of Governors, the Executive committee, and the International Advisory Board.
