Getting to know new cultures, working in international teams and taking responsibility early on - this is how many high-flying hotel careers have begun at Kempinski. For those with the right attitude and a dream, these paths are still open. And to them, registering for the upcoming Kempinski Career Day in Munich is a must.
AMSTERDAM – Olery, a provider of reputation management and guest feedback software for the leisure and hospitality industry, today announced that Yann Fruchart has joined Olery as the company's new Vice President of Sales. Fruchart will be responsible for developing and executing Olery's sales strategy and leading its sales team.
Glion Institute of Higher Education, one of the world's top three institutions of higher education for an international career in hospitality management, announced today that it is opening its first branch campus in London. The new campus expands the reach of Glion's Swiss hospitality education programmes to students and industry leaders in the U.K. Glion is a member of Laureate International Universities, a global network of more than 60 accredited campus-based and online institutions of higher education serving more than 740,000 students in 29 countries.
Right now Clementine Dupraz is busy slicing a chocolate cake, but soon she may be running a luxury hotel, or crunching numbers in a bank. For this Swiss school trains the elite of world hospitality, teaching them to talk both food and money. "Finance has become a more and more important part of the industry," explained Fabien Fresnel, dean of Lausanne's Hospitality Management School, an ultra-modern facility set on the hills above the city. "Back in the old days, a hotel manager would usually own the premises. Today you typically have on the one hand a manager, on the other his investors, plus asset managers etc. "So the new generation of managers need to speak the language of finance, to be able to track down wasteful spending and keep shareholders happy."
Following the past success of the Association’s ‘Career Development Investment Scholarships’, HOSPA is once again offering an unique opportunity to provide career development for five upcoming young people working in Finance, Revenue Management or IT within the UK hospitality industry.
While many companies in the hospitality sector are beginning to boost the number of women at senior level, much more still needs to be done to encourage and fulfill the boardroom ambitions of female senior managers. HVS Executive Search held a briefing in London on the issue of encouraging more women into senior roles in the industry. A panel of high profile speakers including Deborah Dhugga, General Manager of Dukes Hotel in London, Alison Frith, Managing Director of Artizian Catering and Jillian MacLean, Managing Director of Drake & Morgan highlighted the issues women faced while attempting to achieve board-room success, but also suggested that women need to take a lead from their male counterparts by drawing more attention to their successes.
The Supervisory Board of Steigenberger Hotels AG has appointed Puneet Chhatwal as new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Management Board. From January 1, 2013 onwards and together with Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Matthias Heck, Chhatwal will hold responsibility for the hotel business based in Frankfurt/Main.
The Swiss company Hospitality Connection has announced the entry of the HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, Helsinki (Finland), to its exclusive online hospitality network: HOSCO. Hospitality Connection, based in Geneva (Switzerland), provides hospitality players including over 400 companies and 2500 students from 17 top-ranked hotel schools, with an innovative tool to meet and interact.
Autumn starts and it´s getting lively again at IUBH on Campus Bad Reichenhall. About 60 freshmen and 50 students, who returned home from their internships in foreign countries, initiate their study program at university and carry on the tendency of growth at IUBH.
The Swiss company Hospitality Connection has announced the entry of the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef, Bonn, Germany to its exclusive online hospitality network: HOSCO. Hospitality Connection, based in Geneva (Switzerland), provides hospitality players including over 400 companies and 2300 students from 16 top-ranked hotel schools, with an innovative tool to meet and interact.
As part of a strategic push to expand the reach and breadth of its business, Guestline has made three key management appointments and is moving its headquarters to larger premises. These changes reflect Guestline's plans to further cement its reputation as a proven provider of innovative technology solutions that deliver revenue for the hospitality industry.
Glion Institute of Higher Education is launching a new Master of Science in International Hospitality Finance starting January 2013. The 1-year program follows current trends in higher hybrid learning which offers six months of on-campus courses and another six months of online courses. The maximum enrollment for this new program is 30 students for the first intake in January 2013.
As of September 2012, the brand new Preparatory Year will provide students with an even deeper immersion in all hospitality related activities, setting a new and improved standard in the acquisition of professional competencies.
This LipDub took place at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (Switzerland) on May 8th 2012. More than 650 students, teachers and staff members were involved. The video was filmed in one shot (8 minutes without any cuts!) We would like to thank all the participants and their strong EHL Spirit!! A special thank you to KevWestProd who shot the video, amazing job!!!
For three days, hit-CONSULT Darja Gogunova and Catherine Balcerzak were surrounded by hotel students, professors, and key industry members who were all focused and driven by these key traits. The annual Young Hoteliers Summit (YHS) took place from March 19-21, 2012 in Lausanne Switzerland.
Just 40pc of the group’s 2,300 jobs in the UK are held by British nationals, according to the company’s people director, Mike Williams. The rest are largely given to Eastern Europeans from Latvia, Slovakia and Poland, he says. The admission is set to inflame tension over immigration , which this week intensified when official figures showed employers circumnavigating the annual immigration cap by transferring thousands of non-EU workers from their overseas offices to Britain.
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world's leading hotel companies with brands such as Holiday Inn,todayannounced it is creating nearly 3,000¹ new jobs across its 275 UK hotels over the next three years, including over 1,100² new jobs this year. IHG also announced the launch of its newest hospitality training Academy in London.The announcement was welcomed by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who attended the launch of the IHG Academy programme at the soon to open Holiday Inn London Stratford City.
Arco Buijs, CEO of Steigenberger Hotels AG, is to leave the company by mutual consent. The differing strategic views with regard to future development held by Arco Buijs and the Supervisory Board mean that his contract will not be extended when it falls due for renewal in the middle of the year. Buijs will leave the company at the end of February 2012.
The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) has signed a Global Academic Program (GAP) agreement with HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, one of the leading hotel schools of the world.
March 10 is The Day - At the Kempinski Hotel Airport in Munich, Kempinski Hotels' Management Board, Senior Management, and over 60 General Managers will interview young candidates who would like to start or advance their careers with Europe's oldest luxury hotel group. Entry level but also middle and senior management positions are offered - keeping in mind the group's ambitious expansion target. Kempinski plans to extend its current portfolio to 120 properties in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and China by 2015.