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Three years ago, Barney Hoang finished his studies at Vatel Switzerland. He has now accomplished his dream by opening his first hotel 6 months ago.

Jessica Blanc, who graduated in 2018, is about to leave for a 2-week humanitarian mission in India to help the most destitute and to pass on her passion for the hotel business.

The Student Committee, also known as Student Life, shared with us their ambitions, the novelties expected this year and their vision for the future. A great year dedicated to sport, challenge and sharing.

Three of our students had the opportunity to live an original practical experience through the organization of the gastronomic fortnight. A flagship event of the Vatel restaurant, which honoured the Bordeaux region for this new edition.

On November 8th, eleven participants were in the running for the BUCHERER Trophy for the "Best Receptionist" of Switzerland. A demanding competition in which Camille Chauvy and Nicolas Astié, two of our Vateliens participated.

Serving others is a priceless quality in the hospitality industry, but not just there. Students with a degree in hotel management are attractive to employers: their qualities make them champions in all types of professions.

The 26th Eurhodip conference took place in Istanbul from October 16 though 20th, with the theme “Together, let’s build bridges.” Roughly a hundred participants from 25 countries and 35 schools attended this event.

For a week, Vatel Switzerland students had the opportunity to meet with prestigious companies in the hotel and luxury sector. The goal is for our students to obtain an internship or a job.

The Vatel course allows students to live unforgettable experiences in the most beautiful hotels around the world. This is the case for our first and second years, students are preparing to start their internship in Switzerland and internationally.

At the last annual conference of EURHODIP, an association promoting education and training in the hotel and tourism sector, four of our students had the opportunity to participate at the Eurhodip Start-up challenge!

As this year’s Events Ambassador, Mme. Karin Perraudin handed out the diplomas to the 75 graduates of 2019, known as Vateliens. This marks Vatel Switzerland’s 7th edition of the graduation ceremony.

The integration week at Vatel Switzerland traditionally dives its new students right into the Swiss Hotel Industry starting from the very first day.

Third year Bachelor students Carine, Estelle, and Céline handled the advertisements for Vatel Switzerland’s Brasserie Style Restaurant. The students give us the details on what they put together.

With schools throughout the world, nearly four decades of development, the art of hospitality raised to its highest level... And at the heart of the curriculum that made the group’s world recognition: the professors, heralds of Vatel pedagogy.

Senior F&B Instructor at Vatel Bangkok, Isabelle Ferchaud is also the Vatel application restaurant Manager.

Each year our Group School directors, getting together for the Vatel International Convention, use today’s experiences to continue to invent tomorrow’s schools for our future hospitality professionals.

Catching up with second year Bachelor students and their internship experiences.

Vatel Switzerland’s Capstone Project prepares you to do just that!

Vatel Switzerland takes home the trophy!

An essential culinary experience that you don’t want to miss! Twice a year, the Vatel Restaurant invites you to discover the flavors of its gourmet fortnights.

After a successful run in the 2018 edition, Vatel Switzerland once again, gets out its sneakers for the 10km in Lausanne. This year, students and teachers will support the ESPA association: Space of Support and Prevention- Sexual Abuse.

During the harvest, we announced to you that Vatel’s wine was in the making. Well now it has arrived for your tasting pleasure!

Vatel cultivates the qualities required to be a good professional in the hospitality industry: being fluent in foreign languages, knowing how to work with other cultures... Hoteliers are attracted by Vatel students’ resumes, as Vateliens can tell us.

François Perraud feels both a hotelier and a financial controller, an expertise that he likes to pass on to Vatel students.

Jeremie de Fombelle has always loved resorts and has seen many of them, before coming to Mauritius. And this is where he really fell in love! But economic competition is stiff. How can you stand out, if not by the quality of your management?

Vincent Mattera, Food & Beverage Director at the "3 Couronnes Hotel" in Vevey, gives us his point of view on his relationship with Vatel Switzerland and working with our students.

On February 28th and over a month and a half of work, the Hotel Vatel and Vatel Switzerland inaugurated the new student learning ground; the Vatel Restaurant.

A graduate of the class 2015 from Vatel Switzerland, Romanian alumna, Ioana Anghel today works in Dubai and is living her dream, working in the luxury hotel industry. She currently works as the Sales Director at the Kempinki Hotel.

A professor of marketing, corporate promotion and negotiation, Sophie Lot loves adult education and teaches at Vatel Switzerland.

Thanatat Boonpeng: a young Vatel graduate at Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok.

Every day, Vatel students and instructors prepare for class, study, and fan the flames of their curiosity, thanks to the cutting-edge digital library provided by the ScholarVox platform. Come right this way for digital access to knowledge!

An MBA specializing in ecotourism opens in Madagascar. This island has all it takes to materialize this demanding approach of responsible and innovative tourism.

Like every year, the school organizes several Open Day’s annually and invites you to meet with students, professors, management as well as the admissions team. This opportunity is to discover the campus as well as the Vatel Spirit!

During the Vatel Switzerland MBA specialization, students had the opportunity to launch an entrepreneurship project and also use their expertise in providing their services to Swiss companies.

Mrs. Conchon, a Marketing teacher at Vatel Switzerland, went with her 2nd year students to Verbier, the famous ski resort in Switzerland. This was the occasion to meet professionals in the tourism and hospitality sector.

New ideas, enthusiasm, the desire to embrace a gourmet universe: Jerome Ferrer’s story has all the ingredients that inspire the best “success stories” to strategy professors!

The hospitality and tourism industries are particularly concerned by sustainable development. And what if Vatel alumni played a key part in this transition towards more environmentally friendly hotel management?

Travel broadens the mind, as the old saying goes. It also leads to unconventional restaurants. Let’s meet two Vateliens who founded Le Kaya Restaurant in Tignes.

Besides having a Bachelor or an MBA Vatel, what does being a Vatelien mean?

Throughout their entire careers, Vatel alumni remain in touch with their schools. This is also true for Kevin Tessieux, who has never forgotten that he was also once a student, and who now shares this knowledge with students today.

The “Vatel Switzerland’s Student Life” activities make their graceful return thanks to its new president: Logan Grand.

Chahrazade Baroudi, a Vatelien since 2013, describes her job as Marketing and Communication Manager in IDAM, Alain Ducasse’s restaurant on the top floor of the Doha Museum of Islamic Art, in Qatar.

Going on two years now, the Jospeh Favre Grand Prix is the meeting point for Swiss Gourmet. Once again, our students had the opportunity to participate.

In a vine growing region like Valais, Vatel Switzerland had to, of course create its own wine. In part of the courses “Vintage wines”, students aren’t just learning theory but are taking action.

Future hospitality professionals, welcome to Vatel’s 100% management simulation serious game! For an entire week and on three continents, MBA students met the challenge of managing a 4-star hotel and a resort in the Indian Ocean. The winners are...

Who is Gaelle Garnier, the new manager of the network of 35,000 Vatel alumni throughout the world? Let’s meet a Vatelien who works with Vateliens!

The 25th Eurhodip conference, which Vatel took part in, took place in Croatia. Targeting responsible tourism, this conference allowed participants to have more information on opening higher education courses in the field of sustainable development.

Designed to address the needs of the global hospitality industry, the Marco Polo program strengthens the international profile Vatel students have and has just received the prestigious Best Innovation in an Educational Program Award.

Announced a few months ago, Vatel was undergoing the steps to becoming accredited as an “Ecole Supérieure”. As of October 12th 2018, it has successfully achieved this accreditation!

As part of its "tea, wine and culinary art" event, the Swiss Dojo Center opened its doors to students from Vatel Switzerland for a week of discovering the Valais region as well as various distinct flavors that tea, wine and gastronomy have to offer.

In early September, the MBA students specializing in "Finance & Project Development" have made their return. We went to meet one of them and got some feedback.

Graduated in 2011, Alexis Bouche began his career in England. Six years later, he returned to France and is now the Sales Manager of the 5-star hotel, Villa Maïa.

Nearly 40 years old, and now 50 campuses in 32 different countries: Vatel Group opened its first school in Paris and is continuing to grow and duplicate its innovative educational concept in schools abroad.

Trained at Vatel Nimes ten years ago, Chloe Wu has a brilliant career in China. She no longer works in the hospitality industry, but has not forgotten her passion of hospitality and service...

The Vatel International Research Center in Hotel and Tourism Managementhas just published the 10th edition of its Journal, which targets research and reflections on changes taking place in the hospitality and tourism industries.

Curiosity, humility, team spirit... A Vatelien shares his commitment to values his school transmitted to him.

The same international spirit that students have Vatel and 4 students in nursing undertake a humanitarian project in Madagascar.

A traveler - salesman - ambassador, Marco Polo introduced Asia, at that time nearly unknown, to Europe. This inspirational fate has given its name to Vatel’s international exchange program, where students can study at another Vatel campus for a year.

The most senior representatives in the international hospitality industry give Vatel the Best School Hospitality Award. An entire profession thus acclaims them.

Learning the skills needed to be a manager, quick employability, international careers... Vatel, the passport that gets you hired. See the video.

September marks the return of our 2nd and 3rd year students from their internships. We talk to one of them to get the scoop on their experience!

On Monday morning, 80 new students arrived at Vatel Switzerland. The intake week was the occasion for these fresh new Bachelors to discover the school, the area, and to well prepare themselves for the academic semester ahead.

On September 1st, on Vatel Switzerland’s campus, 86 newly graduated Vatelians, received their diplomas by the famous Swiss Mountaineer, Mr. Jean Troillet.

The 5th edition of the Graduation Ceremony takes off with a prestigious sponsorship and this year’s Event Ambassador, Mr. Leonard Gianadda.

On the special occasion of the launch of Vatel Switzerland’s new MBA Program, Marc Forestier, the Program Director and graduate of HEC Paris, gave us an interview.

Vatel Switzerland is launching it's new MBA specialization Finance.

After two days of auditing, the Vatel School in Martigny received the Swiss Eduqua label, recognizing its certification as a continuing educational institution.

Human Resources Director of one of the most beautiful Swiss Palaces, Florence Vialletel talks about her professional experiences, and Vatel students that she recruits for internships.

Robin Beney and Matthias Le Large, two 3rd year students, came in first place in the annual creative challenge of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne out of over 40 participating hospitality management schools.

Followed by her studies at Vatel Switzerland, one of our students was selected to participate in a training program by one of the most renowned hotel groups within the industry, Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG).

On Friday the 15th of June, after a week of exams for Bachelor students, everyone gathered for the memorable and lively Gala night for Vatel Switzerland.

Vatel Switzerland’s gastronomic fortnight takes us to the flavors of Singaporean cuisine.

The file submitted this spring to the SEFRI (State Secretariat of Education, Research and Innovation) has been well received with a seal of approval for the "École Supérieure" accreditation.

Vatel Switzerland student Naika, participates in one of Switzerland’s most famous mountaineering ski races organized every two years by the Swiss Armed forces.

Last week our MBA graduating students had to put on their entrepreneurial thinking caps to present their year-end projects.

In the French speaking part of Switzerland known as the Swiss Romande, each year in Lausanne, the « Forum of 100 characters of Switzerland” is organized with the aim of discussing the country’s future.

Vatel Switzerland 3rd year students get acquainted and cozy at the newest Oenopark !

We took the time to catch up with third year Bachelor student, Dimitri Guillton, and find out his enriching experience at the St.Regis Bora Bora Resort and Spa ***** as a Concierge.

This week we had the chance to go to Marseille in France and visit Vatel Switzerland alumni, Romain Nicoli. He has become the Deputy Director of Marketing Strategies at Chef Gerald Passedat’s 3* Michelin group.

The second year International Bachelor Class wrap up their Communications course through theatrical plays.

The International Bachelor Class say their good byes after 3 years at Vatel Switzerland!

Let’s shred some powder!

The Fairmont Montreux Palace recruits at Vatel Switzerland

Vatel Switzerland’s newest Event Ambassador reaches the summit!

Florence Delhaise, class of 2015 has won the 2017 Bucherer Trophy for the best receptionist in Switzerland

Three of our 3rd year students of the international class worked during their last practical week in order to gather students with their families around one royal family table, to enjoy a lovely dinner with a warm cozy atmosphere.

Cynthia Abi Khalil and Antoine Swaelus, 2nd year students of the bachelor international class, worked during 5 weeks of their practical courses to organize the gastronomic fortnight Vatel international cuisine under the theme of Belgium.

Laura Pasquier explains her latest internship opportunity

Vatel Switzerland had the honor to welcome the members of the executive management of the prestigious luxury hotel chain for the placement of trainees and the recruitment of their future international executives for their 5* Hotel in Paris.

MBA student, Aubane Rietsch, made her dreams come true by obtaining the position of Sales and Marketing Trainee.

Une sélection d’étudiants de Vatel Martigny se sont distingués par leurs compétences à l’occasion du plus grand meeting aérien de Suisse organisé du 15 au 17 septembre 2017.