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Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne

Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne


EHL Education Group is the world’s leading source of hospitality education, advisory services and innovation resources for businesses and learning centers. Our purpose is to augment the level of excellence, in our students and the industry, by enriching traditional hospitality education and business models with the values of tomorrow.

From a small Swiss hotel school, EHL has evolved into an international group that offers a large and complete range of learning and business solutions, with campuses in Switzerland and Asia. The Group is supported by a worldwide alumni network of 30,000 professionals and several thousand industry partners.

Hospitality education: EHL has three campuses on two continents. Each school campus has its own unique offer of programs, services, and specialized activities in relation to the industry.

Business solutions: EHL Advisory, EHL’s advisory branch, provides business consulting services and tailor-made training programs for hospitality business and other organizations, and it offers education development services and certification for hospitality learning centers worldwide.

Innovation: EHL launched the first business incubator for hospitality concepts and start-ups in 2009 to create a dedicated resource for the development of new hospitality and F&B concepts. The Innovation Village is a new facility located near the Lausanne campus dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship and inspiring and disrupting the food & hospitality industry, in collaboration with strategic partners.

Industry partnerships: EHL Group offers a variety of services and resources to our network of industry partners in education and the hospitality industry. These initiatives include our industry alliance, digital transformation, sponsored research institutes, recruitment and talent development services, which draw on the expertise and activities of several departments or entities, to provide global agility and leverage.