Profile
Welcome
When you enter the world of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, you immediately feel the energy and enthusiasm, a sense of shared purpose. It is a place where everyone is different yet everyone feels at home. Walk down the main hallway of the school and you will hear ten different languages being spoken – a microcosm of the hospitality industry itself.
Overview
The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is the leading hospitality school which is part of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland.
EHL is an international, bilingual school, offering its programmes in both English and French. It 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. It 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. |
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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.
EHL’s double accreditation
The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne is accredited at university level both nationally and internationally.
