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At EHL, you will find professors of finance, strategy or marketing, professional chefs, oenologists, engineers and architects, specialists in hospitality operations, language and communication professors…

They represent nearly 20 nationalities, bringing together many different approaches and teaching methods.

Academic and professional competencies

The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne balances academic teaching with professional experience, applied research and consulting. This results in learning that is at once applied and hospitality-focused, and academically grounded.

An international approach to hospitality

EHL faculty members have nearly 20 different nationalities among them. They work in an international atmosphere with 1,700 students who have around 90 different nationalities.

Faculty profiles

EHL faculty come from a wide array of professional and cultural backgrounds.

Faculty on the move

Macy Marvel moderates the Expo Real panel: Does private equity require a new business model?

October

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.

Best Paper award for Dr Hilary Murphy at EUROCHRIE

October

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".

Seminar on learning, assessment and feedback for our teachers

September

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.

Professor Ian Millar elected to the HFTP Board of Directors

Febuary

As the international professional association serving over 4,800 members working in the hospitality industry, HFTP has been dedicated to providing members with extraordinary networking and educational opportunities since 1952.