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.
Family businesses generate between 35 and 65% of the Swiss and European GNP. What's more, it is a widespread business structure within the Hospitality industry. In this context, two leading global institutions; EHL (Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne) and IMD (International Institute for Management Development) in management education have developed a new executive programme specifically targeted at family businesses in hospitality
Students in the University of Delaware Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management looking to diversify their work experience now have the opportunity to do just that while simultaneously gaining knowledge of Tuscan history and culture firsthand.
Where should the journey take you? To China? The United Arab Emirates or Thailand? To Djibouti, Accra or Mongolia? On the second Kempinski Career Day at the Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich, a chance is given to approximately 1,000 ambitious and talented hotel management school graduates, highly motivated young professionals as well as enthusiastic newcomers to kick-start their career in the luxury hospitality business. On March 10, 2012, Kempinski Hotels' Management Board, Top Management and over 60 General Managers will be present to give detailed insight on one of the most dynamic and people-orientated industries there is. In 'speed dating' style, candidates will get to know the hotels' General Managers and with some luck and finesse this could be the beginning of an exciting future with Europe's oldest and most established luxury hotel group. Various presentations throughout the day will give participants the opportunity to learn more about the company as well as the working conditions in the regions Kempinski hotels can be found.
The International School of Law and Business in Vilnius, Lithuania is the country's leading provider of professional bachelor's degrees in hospitality, with about 800 students in the program and strong links with the industry. They are also members of the Lithuanian Hotel & Restaurant Association. The International School of Law and Business in Vilnius will become the exclusive provider of the EI hospitality management diploma to students in Lithuania.
Based on the success of the newly created Paris-Lausanne Society last year in Paris, Prof. Michel Rochat, Director General at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, has signed the Foundation Chart of the London-Lausanne Society together with His Excellency, Mr. Anton Thalmann, Swiss Ambassador to UK, on the 15 September 2011 at the Swiss Embassy in London. The London-Lausanne Society shall be a platform to promote new partnerships and collaborations between different key stakeholders such as entrepreneurs, the industry to Universities and Business School together with the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.
The Bachelor and Diploma academic study programs of Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) re-opened on Tuesday 20 September. The Diploma in Hotel and Restaurant Management programme has 61 new students and offers a curriculum based on entrepreneurship and close to market reality. The Bachelor programme has 386 new students and educates the future executives of the hospitality sector. Given its determination to train the future leaders of the hospitality sector future, EHL rigorously selects its students and constantly adjusts the content of its programmes in line with new technologies and market trends.
The budget hotel chain yesterday commenced the programme with 33 apprentices. The scheme titled JuMP (Junior Management Programme) is a fast track route into management and provides A-level students (18+) with a real alternative to going to university. On this programme school leavers can continue their education, obtain work experience, receive a salary and become a manager by the age of 21. JuMP has been developed to support Travelodge's aggressive growth strategy. In addition, to supporting the Government's appeal for British companies to generate more high value apprenticeship placements.
The value created during the annual Young Hoteliers Summit at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne has shown strong potential for growth. As a result the yearly Summit is now been embedded in the newly founded association branded YHS (yhsglobal.com). What began as an annual event, bringing together leading hospitality management schools from around the globe, the Young Hoteliers Summit has now grown to become part of a bigger cause, addressing the gap between Educational Institutions, the Hospitality Industry and it’s Young Talents...
Family businesses generate between 35 and 65% of the Swiss and European GNP. What's more, it is a widespread business structure within the Hospitality industry. In this context, two leading global institutions; EHL (Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne) and IMD (International Institute for Management Development) in management education have developed a new executive programme specifically targeted at family businesses in hospitality.
The Cavendish recently got 35th place in the Sunday Times ’100 Best Small Companies to Work For’ – the only hotel on the list. So I phoned up Sarah Strawbridge, the Cavendish’s HR Manager and asked: “What’s the secret?” It starts with recruitment. The hotel has a very good name in the industry – not just among hotel staff but also students and lecturers, because of its policy of running student placements as a prelude to graduate jobs.
The Board of Governors and the Management Committee of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) announced the nomination of Mr Fabien Fresnel to the post of Education and Research Director on Monday, 28 February 2011. He will take up his functions on 15 March 2011. Driven by his passion for the hospitality industry, Fabien Fresnel brings to this eminently prestigious position a particularly rich and varied background, in both professional and academic areas.
Two leading global institutions in management education, EHL (Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne) and IMD (International Management Development), have joined forces to develop a unique kind of training, FBH Family Business in Hospitality, a new executive programme specifically targeted at family-owned businesses and hospitality.
The board of French hotels company Accor SA said Wednesday it is replacing its Chief Executive, Gilles Pelisson with Denis Hennequin, CEO of McDonald's Corp. in Europe. Mr. Pelisson, who oversaw the company's split from its vouchers business, spent five years at the helm of Accor, the company behind the Motel6 budget chain in the U.S., Sofitel luxury hotels and the Novotel brand. During his stint as CEO, Mr. Pelisson restructured the company, selling off noncore assets and hotels properties, replacing them with long-term leases, and separating the highly cash-generative vouchers business into a separately listed company, Edenred.
HVS Executive Search is pleased to announce the release of the 2010 London Hotel Salary Report©. Now in its seventh year, this report includes data from 63 First Class and Luxury London hotels. Here is a snapshot of the information presented in the report: