Mission Statement

Vatel is known in the entire world for the quality of its courses, professional attitude, knowledge, know-how, as well as essential life skills taught to its students. We, at Vatel, in order to preserve this key dimension that guarantees the success of our students, and to ensure its continuity, have written an Engagement Charter. This Charter enumerates the foundations and main values of the School, as well as its responsibilities towards students, their families, and professionals in the hospitality industry. Vatel is also a proud member of several international associations. These affiliations bear the hallmark of the high level of training and education we give at Vatel. They also give students opportunities for internships and enlarge their professional network when they begin their working life.

Vatel's Engagement Charter

This charter, signed by every School Director, ensures Vatel students worldwide of the respect of teaching principles that have led to Vatel's success and that of its alumni.

1 . Our objective:

• To be a leader in higher education in the Hospitality sector, as well as a world-wide reference for business schools in this field. Our university Hospitality and Tourism management courses are aimed at highly motivated students. Our other activities of consulting and research, in the CirVath framework, must be compatible with our objective.

2. Our responsabilities:

• Students : Allowing them to acquire a professional culture and management techniques and skills they will need to succeed in their future career.
• Student's families : Ensuring families that their children have an education based on essential values necessary to their future professional success.
• Alumni : Maintaining tight and friendly links with Vatelien alumni, so they will have a privileged role to play in designing new courses and recruiting new students.
• The hospitality and tourism industry : Training future operational and top managers that correspond to current recruitment needs.
• General society : Preparing men and women to carry out their duties in local, national and international communities.

3. Our philosophy:

• University courses : Committing ourselves to continual improvement in Hospitality and Tourism courses so that they will be considered as key university courses.
• Professional ethics : tradition and modernity : Our training programs are not just national programs. They include European and international knowledge, as well as language courses that will enable students to have a wide choice of careers any place in the world: this is one of Vatel's key points.
• Leadership and team spirit : Courses given at Vatel help students develop initiatives and become creative, while at the same time assimilating leadership and team spirit qualities to help them in their future professions.
• Personal culture : We make it a point of honor to awaken our student's natural curiosity and make them want to learn more, not only about general or professional subjects but also about other cultures, making them more open-minded.
• Polyvalence and adaptation : Our theoretical and practical training programs highlight the interconnecting courses that give students polyvalent and adaptable skills necessary in their professional careers.
• Know-how and essential life skills : Our training mission is founded upon a transfer of knowledge that will empower each student with professional and managerial know-how. Students become aware of different behaviors and life-styles necessary in Hospitality and Tourism professions, and thus, acquire essential life skills.