Cheese, chocolate, private banking, ski racing, punctual trains… for a small country, Switzerland is very good at a lot of things.
Another confident entrant on that list is hospitality management education. According to the latest QS World University Rankings by subject, Switzerland is home to three of the world’s top four institutions for hospitality & leisure management – as well as eight in the top 20.
Why has Switzerland become the go-to destination to obtain a world class hospitality education? And what makes the Swiss model of hospitality teaching so effective?
A brief history of hospitality – Swiss style
Switzerland is regarded as ‘the home of hospitality’ because it began seriously catering to tourists when tourism was just getting started. In the 18th century, Switzerland was featured as a must-see destination for the new breed of European travelers who trekked across the continent to experience nature and amazing landscapes.
Switzerland was even featured in the first package holidays across Europe, created by Thomas Cook in 1858. Over the years, the quality of the roads improved and trains began to bring more tourists into the country, which in turn generated serious growth in the number of hotels available. By the end of the 19th century, Switzerland was firmly established as a major European tourism destination.
Hospitality education arrives in Switzerland
The world’s first hotel schools began appearing in Switzerland from the late 19th century. At that time, the typical curriculum focused on operations management – teaching students to manage the restaurant, reception, accommodation, and guest services, with some ‘book-keeping’.
The next big surge in tourism (and hotel-building) occurred in the 1960s, as the development of motorways and commercial flights made it even easier to travel abroad. There was more demand than ever for effective hospitality professionals. Consequently, the school we now know as Glion Institute of Higher Education was founded in 1962.
The school’s founders, Walter Hunziker and Frederic Tissot, saw that the growth of tourism was creating a need for better training and professional managers in hotels and hotel-related businesses. Hunziker was a pioneer in academic research and tourism, while Tissot was an experienced hotelier and entrepreneur.
Together, they shared a common vision: to create the finest hospitality management school in the world. They opened their hotel school in the grandiose old Hotel Bellevue, with its commanding position on the mountainside overlooking Montreux. Initially named the Institut International de Glion, it had a first class comprising 15 students from five countries – an internationally-diverse student body that remains a Glion hallmark to this day!
Why are Swiss hotel schools so good?
Today, hotel schools are plentiful in Switzerland, with at least 25 institutions offering hotel management programs.
But the long history of hotel schools in Switzerland, and the sheer number of schools that operate today, do not adequately explain why Switzerland is so famous – and celebrated – for hospitality management education.
To answer this question, we must look deeper into the teaching methods and traditions of Swiss hotel management schools.
Schools such as Glion use tried-and-trusted Swiss methods for training good managers. Also known as applied learning, the secret of the recipe is to mix practical courses with management theory and applied business exercises.
The Swiss hospitality education model equips students with the bottom-up knowledge required to manage a business effectively. Students learn the details of every department and every role, so they know exactly what every one of their employees is supposed to do. This comprehensive method of teaching is what has earned Swiss hotel management schools their elite reputation in the world of international business education.
Hotel schools in the past often had a limited curriculum of hotel management courses for operations (food & beverage service, reception, rooms division, etc.). But this structure is no longer the norm. Modern hospitality management schools in Switzerland, such as Glion, are now much closer to the country’s university model of building competencies step-by-step and applying theory to working situations.
So there you have it. Switzerland’s reputation as the crucible of hospitality education has well over a century of history behind it, not to mention a teaching model that many have sought to emulate, but few can deliver with the consistent excellence of Swiss schools. The league tables don’t lie…
Source: https://www.glion.edu/blog/swiss-hotel-schools-ranked-best-world/
For the ninth successive year, Switzerland was named as the world’s most innovative country by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. How does a nation of fewer than nine million people consistently see off economic superpowers like China and the US to earn this global recognition? We investigate…
This week sees the winning students set off on theirEuropean Tech Tour, the culmination of a competition designed to encourage innovative and disruptive thinking among last September’s Bachelor intake.
On the Tech Tourists’ agenda is a trip to Amsterdam, where they’ll meet innovative brands such as citizenM, WONDR and The Playing Circle.
But the tour actually starts much closer to home, in Switzerland. And that’s not for logistical reasons. It’s because if you want to get close to world-leading innovation, Switzerland is very much the place to be.
“Its solid strong performance translates to excellent innovation outcomes including patent applications, IP receipts and high-tech manufacturing products.”
And don’t just take our word for it either. The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)has ranked Switzerland number one in its Global Innovation Index for nine consecutive years. Announcing its 2019 index, WIPO said of the country, “Its solid strong performance translates to excellent innovation outcomes including patent applications, IP receipts and high-tech manufacturing products.”
The secrets of Swiss success
How has Switzerland become such a globally-renowned hotbed of innovation? Who better to answer that question than EPFL, one of Europe’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan science and technology institutions; and hosts for day one of the Tech Tour.
“There’s a variety of factors that have come together to make Switzerland so successful in this area,” says Lan Zuo Gillet, who is Program Director for entrepreneurship training in Western Switzerland and several vertical start-up acceleration programs. Lan is also leading workshops focusing on partnership between the start-up and large corporate ecosystems.
She adds, “Historically, you can point to the country’s political neutrality and stable social environment, which has long attracted talented individuals who’ve been forced out of their own countries by wars, revolutions or persecution. Albert Einstein is just one example of this, but throughout academia you can find a high proportion of foreign talent; and for me this is an important factor.”
“It invites individuals with innovative ideas to come forward, and backs those it considers to be the best and potentially most impactful.”
More directly, generous government support – at both federal and local levels – is also a major part of the equation. As Lan explains, it’s also the way this support is offered that makes a difference.
“In Switzerland the approach is very ‘bottom up’, which means the government doesn’t dictate where it thinks investment should be made. Instead, it invites individuals with innovative ideas to come forward, and backs those it considers to be the best and potentially most impactful. In this way the initiatives come from the people, not the government,” she says.
Driving industry and academia closer together
The funding process itself is also cleverly geared towards fostering collaboration between the corporate sector and universities. Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, has a policy of giving its funds directly to universities, which drives companies to seek a university partner with which to develop new products and innovations.
“This means the university can subsidize the research support it provides to companies, plus this collaborative approach ensures the research departments stay plugged in to the continuing evolution of the markets and wider economy,” says Lan.
Another important factor, and one that’s close to our hearts at Les Roches, is the applied, professionally-focused nature of Swiss education. Lan notes, “Swiss higher education is very practical and professionally oriented. It has helped us to build a highly skilled labour force, and this is important if you’re looking to turn a patent into a product that can be industrialized.”
EPFL leads the way
And, of course, there are world-class academic institutions like EPFL which are devoted to driving innovation.
To give these efforts a physical focus, The EPFL Innovation Park was created around 25 years ago. The Innovation Park is a non-profit foundation run separately to the university, but with full access to its research labs and other facilities. It hosts around 150 high growth start-up companies, as well as 26 large corporates, and it’s this cross-fertilization between the start-ups and large corporates that is a key part of Lan’s work.
“The relationship is a triangular one, between the start-ups, the larger companies and the EPFL research lab,” she says. “If you look at the population of start-ups in the park, just over a third are in the biotech/life sciences/medtech area, roughly another third are in IT/telecoms, with the rest split between a range of other sectors.”
And the park has already spawned some hugely successful businesses. Among them is AC Immune, a company that develops precision medicines targeting neurodegenerative diseases. AC Immune is now listed on the US Nasdaq exchange, and is still headquartered at the park.
Another ground-breaking success story is MindMaze, which builds intuitive human machine interfaces and has the distinction of being Switzerland’s first tech ‘unicorn’ with a $1 billion+ valuation.
“In future I see a lot of innovation coming from the cross-fertilization between all the areas that Switzerland is strong in,” says Lan. “This mean pharmaceuticals, life sciences, precision manufacturing, ‘technology for trust’ (i.e. cybersecurity), banking and others. It’s a very exciting time for innovative minds to come here to study and work.”
Source: https://lesroches.edu/blog/switzerland-global-superpower-innovation/
Student Ambassadors, Chiara, from Italy, and Anastasiia, from Russia, have become citizens of the world while studying for their BBAs at Les Roches. Now back on the Swiss campus, they share their global journey into the hospitality industry.
When you study abroad you see everything in a different way: how you think, how you speak, and how you approach people and the world. Les Roches gave us the possibility to experience all this at a whole different level.
We started Les Roches in the summer of 2017 and since then, along with our classmates, we have lived in 5 different countries, over 3 continents. We are currently based on the Crans-Montana campus in Switzerland (again!) but we had the chance to spend one semester in Shanghai, China, and another one in Marbella, Spain.
Experiencing cultures
During our internship for six months, we took different paths that led us to the opposite sides of Europe, from a small boutique hotel in Barcelona to the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow. During the past semesters, we were lucky enough to embrace a multitude of different cultures and values very different from our own: the impeccable Swiss punctuality, we felt the amazingly colorful and loud Chinese New Year’s, and we got used to the late hours Spanish lifestyle – yes, everything is pushed back in Spain… prepare your patience!
“We actually have grown and developed so much as people and professionals of the hospitality industry”
Widened horizons
We travelled to so many places in such a short amount of time that we didn’t even think it was possible to handle, but if we look back at when we started this journey in Les Roches, we actually have grown and developed so much as people and professionals of the hospitality industry.
We have widened our horizons, learned new languages including basic Mandarin (essential for surviving in China, take notes!), got many insights of how things are done and perceived differently in different countries, and above all, our class has now become a real family.
Supported along the way
Of course, it has not been always easy. Adapting to so many different realities in such a short time and then changing again can get quite overwhelming at a certain point, but Les Roches has always given us the support and the tools necessary to make the best out of each country and experience.
We will never forget our field trip to the chocolate factory in Switzerland during our first semester, our first typical Chinese meal in Shanghai, or the Spanish wine and jamón degustation in Marbella.
“We have had a wonderful time so far and we are looking forward to the rest!“
ขอบคุณที่มา: https://lesroches.edu/blog/different-countries-continents-years/
A Swiss cheesemaker was crowned champion at the biennial World Championship Cheese Contest held in Madison, Wisconsin.
Michael Spycher of Mountain Dairy Fritzenhaus in the Swiss canton of Bern clinched the top prize on Thursday. The judges scored his creation, a Gourmino Le Gruyère AOP cheese, 98.81 points out of a maximum of 100 in the final round. This is Spycher’s second title as the maker of the world’s best cheese. He first clinched the title in 2008.
Second place was also taken by a Swiss cheesemaker from the northeastern Swiss canton of St Gallen, for a Gallus Grand Cru cheese. The third spot went to a Gouda cheese from the Netherlands.
The jury had to assess the merits of 3,667 cheeses in more than 100 categories. The 20 best cheeses from all categories made it to the final. Swiss cheeses distinguished themselves in many categories, winning a total of seven gold, ten silver and seven bronze medals.
Last year was good for Swiss cheese exports. In total, 75,877 tonnes of cheese were exported in 2019, an increase of 4.5% on the previous year, for a value of CHF667.6 million ($693 million). Over four-fifths of this went to European countries. Germany represented the destination for a good half of Swiss cheese exports; France and Italy were next biggest markets.
Meet Summer Camp from Institut Auf Dem Rosenberg Innovation & Traditional Boarding Schools in Switzerland
Accompanied by staff from Ekthana Education Services for the whole trip.
Summer Camp
This programme for students age 6-18 years old. Open chance for students to learning new language and new skills, sports, and a lot of lesson such as Diplomacy & Activism, Environmental Science & Sustainability, Fashion & Textile Design, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Robotics & Engineering and introduction to life at a traditional Swiss boarding school.
2 Languages option: English 🇬🇧 or German 🇩🇪
Age: 6 – 18 Years old
2 Programs options
Junior Summer Camp – 4,920 CHF (pay direct to school)
Age: 6 – 13
Dates: 5 July – 18 July 2020
Duration: 2 weeks
Class Size: max. 12 students
Senior Summer Camp – 4,920 CHF (pay direct to school)
Ages: 14–18 years
Dates: 5 July – 18 July 2020
Duration: 2 weeks
Class Size: max. 12 students
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For more information in Summer Camp: http://www.rosenbergcamps.ch/
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Summer Camp Programme from Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz Swiss International Boarding School from Switzerland
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Summer Camp
Summer Camp Programme of Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz for students age 10 – 15 years old. Offer a combination of language and sports, language and film acting, language and digital skills, language and football as well as language and golf and etc. There are a lot of activities in every weekend such as handcraft to rock climbing and river rafting.
In each programme, there are special guest such as in Digital Skills programme, co-operation with TechSpark Academy which are offer Build a robot, Design your own app or computer game, for golf Instructed by Swiss PGA Pros, for football practice with Real Madrid Pro and more.
3 Language option: English 🇬🇧, French 🇫🇷 or German 🇩🇪
Age: 10-15 Years old
Summer Camp in 2020 (2 weeks)
CAMP 1: 28 June – 10 July
CAMP 2: 12 – 24 July
CAMP 3: 26 July – 7 August
5 Programs option
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โรงเรียน Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz ให้การศึกษาแก่นักเรียนอย่างรอบด้าน ส่งเสริมทั้งด้านสติปัญญา อารมณ์ และร่างกายให้สมดุล มีหลักการสอนอยู่บนพื้นฐานของความเคารพต่อประเพณี ผสมผสานกับการสร้างสรรค์สิ่งใหม่ๆ พร้อมทั้งให้ความสำคัญต่อความเคารพซึ่งกันและกัน ความอดทน ความมุ่งมั่น และการเรียนรู้ในระยะยาว ควบคู่ไปกับทัศนคติที่เปิดอย่างกว้างขวาง
Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz ก่อตั้งมาแต่ปี 1904 ตั้งอยู่ในแนวเทือกเขาแอลป์ใกล้กับ St.Moritz ประเทศสวิตเซอร์แลนด์ ในพื้นที่กว้างขวาง พร้อมสนามกีฬาของตัวโรงเรียนเองที่สามารถมองเห็นหมู่บ้านอัลไพน์ที่ Zuoz ได้ มีนักเรียนประจำ 200 คน และไม่ประจำ 100 คน อายุตั้งแต่ 12-18 ปี กว่า 30 เชื้อชาติที่เตรียมพร้อมสำหรับการสอบเข้าเรียนในระดับอุดมศึกษา
โปรแกรม 3 หลักสูตร
1. หลักสูตร ภาษาอังกฤษ
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) โปรแกรมสำหรับนักเรียนที่มีความรู้ด้านวิชาการด้วยจิตใจที่เปิดกว้าง ความต้องการความรู้ และความสามารถในการศึกษาด้วยตนเอง หลักสูตร IB Diploma เป็นหลักสูตร 2 ปี ที่มุ่งเน้นให้ความรู้และพัฒนานักเรียนในลักษณะรวมๆ
International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) เป็นโปรแกรมการศึกษานานาชาติที่เป็นนวัตกรรมสำหรับนักเรียนอายุ 16-19 ปี มีการผสมผสานระหว่างวิชาการและการพัฒนาส่วนบุคคล มีการสอนเกี่ยวกับการทำงานเป็นทีม การตัดสินใจ การแก้ปัญหาและการสื่อสาร
2. หลักสูตร ภาษาเยอรมัน
Swiss Matura (in combination with the German Abitur) โปรแกรมนี้เปิดโอกาสให้นักเรียนทุกคนเข้าสู่มหาวิทยาลัยสวิสโดยไม่ต้องสอบเข้า นักเรียนได้เตรียมตัวสำหรับการสอบ Matura มา 4-6 ปี และสำหรับ German Abitur นอกจากนี้นักเรียน Matura ยังมีโอกาสได้สอบเข้าโรงเรียนมัธยมเยอรมัน การสอบจะเกิดขึ้นภายใต้กระทรวงการศึกษาธิการและ โรงเรียน Bundesland Baden-Württemberg
3. หลักสูตร Bilingual
ที่ Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz นอกเหนือจาก Matura ที่เป็นภาษาเยอรมันแล้ว ยังมีโปรแกรม 2 ภาษาที่แบ่งเป็น “ภาษาเยอรมันและภาษาอังกฤษ” กับ “ภาษาอิตาลีและภาษาเยอรมัน”
ปรแกรม Summer Camp 2 สัปดาห์
ช่วงอายุ: 10-15 ปี
ช่วงเวลาในปี 2020
แคมป์ 1 : วันที่ 28 มิถุนายน – 10 กรกฎาคม
แคมป์ 2 : วันที่ 12 กรกฎาคม – 24 กรกฎาคม
แคมป์ 3 : วันที่ 26 กรกฎาคม – 7 สิงหาคม
สามารถเลือกได้ 3 ภาษา: อังกฤษ, ฝรั่งเศส และเยอรมัน
มีทั้งหมด 5 โปรแกรมด้วยกัน
1. Sports
2. Film acting
💵 ราคา 4,500 สวิตฟรังก์ (ประมาณ 144,000 บาท)
3. Golf
4. Digital Skills
5. Football
💵 ราคา 4,900 สวิตฟรังก์ (ประมาณ 156,000 บาท)
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Christmas ski camp in Switzerland at Les Elfes
Program welcomes young learners age 6- 17 years old to experience the ski learning from real professional ski teachers, to enjoy the fun as well as learning. The program duration is 2 weeks.
Activities such as Skiing, snowboard, ice-skating, hocky, language studies, excursions and much more will be taken care by well-trained staffs and experienced teachers of Les Elfes who earned the certified safety and license from Swiss Ski School.
Students will get the participation certificate and awards at end of the program
**Khun Ouan Ekthana himself will lead the group!**
🔹 Date: 21st December 2020 – 2nd January 2021
🔹 Age 6-17 years old.
💵 Costs: CHF 3,770 (approx. 120,000 THB)
This includes airport transfer, accommodation for 12 nights, 3 meals a day, ski pass, activities, excursions and entertainments and all other sports in the programs (but exclude ski equipment and other extras)
See more information at: https://leselfes.com/winter-camp/
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Hochalpines Institute Ftan (HIF) เป็นโรงเรียนที่เปิดให้นักเรียนจากทั่วทุกมุมโลกที่เข้ามา สามารถเจริญเติบโตได้อย่างดีเลิศด้วยระบบการศึกษาที่ไม่เป็นสองรองใคร และทางโรงเรียนยังสนับสนุนนักเรียนที่มีความสามารถในแต่ละด้านที่แตกต่างกัน อีกทั้งยังสนับสนุนนักเรียนที่ต้องการจะพัฒนาศักยภาพตนเอง เปิดสอนตั้งแต่เกรด 7-12
ทางโรงเรียนยังได้รับการแนะนำจาก Heinrich Pestalozzi นักศึกษาศาสตร์ที่มีชื่อเสียงระดับโลก
Hochalpines Institute Ftan (HIF) ยังเป็น 1 ในโรงเรียนชั้นนำในด้านกีฬา ไม่ว่าจะเป็นทั้ง สกี, กอล์ฟ, กีฬาภาคสนามต่างๆ และตัวโรงเรียนยังเป็นสถานที่ฝึกซ้อมสำหรับ สกีนอร์ดิก, สโนบอร์ด และยังได้รับรางวัลศูนย์การปฏิบัติงานในระดับภูมิภาคของสมาคมการเล่นสกีสวิสสำหรับการเล่นสกีอัลไพน์
Hochalpines Institute Ftan (HIF) ก่อตั้งมาตั้งแต่ปี 1793 โดย Andrea Rosius a Porta ตั้งอยู่บนความสูง 1,700 เมตรจากระดับน้ำทะเลใน Engadine Valley, ที่ประเทศสวิตเซอร์แลนด์ สามารถมองเห็นยอดเขาอัลไพน์ได้
โปรแกรม Summer Adventure Camp 2020
The HIF International Summer Adventure Camp 2020 นี้นอกจากจะสามารถเรียนภาษาอังกฤษหรือภาษาเยอรมันร่วมกับนักเรียนจากทั่วทุกมุมโลกและได้สำรวจ Swiss Alps แล้ว ยังมีกิจกรรมผจญภัยอื่นๆอีกมากมาย เช่น ล่องแก่ง ขี่ม้า เดินเขา ปีนผา และอื่นๆอีกมากมาย
🔹 ระยะเวลา 2 สัปดาห์
🔹 ช่วงเวลา: 19 กรกฎาคม – 1 สิงหาคม 2020
🔹 อายุ: 10-16 ปี
อ่านรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมได้ที่: https://www.hif.ch/en/summer-camp
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