India's No.1 Educational Blog: Press Release : Nirmitee Mehta from Ecole Hoteliere Lavasa bags top honour at the annual Young Hotelier's Summit in Switzerland

Lavasa & Switzerland, April 15^th, 2015: The 6th edition of the recently organized Young Hotelier's Summit in Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), Switzerland brought together 62 students from 31 schools across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Students attended three days of workshop, keynote speakers and focus groups, interacting with influential players in the hospitality industry and working with delegates from other colleges.

Titled as Team 10/10 comprising Nirmitee Mehta (Ecole Hoteliere Lavasa), Anna Church (Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne), Donal Ennis (Shannon College of Hotel Management), Aaron Laurie (University of Guelph) and Maruan Elana (MODUL University Vienna GmbH) were awarded with the 'Dorchester Ultimate Experience' comprising a 7 day all expenses paid trip for each team member plus a companion to their hotels in Milan, Paris and London at the annual Young Hotelier's Summit.

Mr. Ravi Kapila, Dean Academics, Ecole Hoteliere Lavasa, praising Nirmitee said, “Our students Nirmitee Mehta and Sagar Neve made us proud at the Young Hoteliers Summit 2015 organized by Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne. Nirmitee Mehta won the Young Hotelier's Summit challenge by Dorchester Collection on a 10/10 score .She won in a competition where the best students from the best hospitality colleges in the world took part. She is the first person from Ecole Hoteliere Lavasa to have ever been on a YHS winning team. We at LEH wish her all the very best in her future endeavors.”

On the second day of the summit, the Dorchester Collection announced the challenge for which the delegates were split into groups of five. The teams were asked to design an organization structure that embraces disruption by breaking down traditional hierarchies and promoting real time communication and collaboration.

The winning group was chosen based on the innovation behind their solution, their perspective of looking inwards to outwards, the way they involved everyone in the solution and its sustainability as they could reposition the people they already have.

The Young Hoteliers Summit is an annual event held from 16th to 18th March by the students of Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne. It is the first hospitality summit that brings together students from hotel schools and industry companies from around the world and is centered on the principles of collaboration towards the industry's main players, dialogue and exchange of ideas.

About Ecole Hoteliere Lavasa

Set to establish new benchmarks of excellence in hospitality education in India, Ecole Hoteliere Lavasa is academically certified by Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland. It nurtures the best-in-class professionals, hospitality leaders and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. It provides students with highly specialized learning facilities and state-of-the-art campus and co-curricular activities. This institute provides a balanced mix of business and hospitality education. Hospitality employers are in constant search of graduates with absolute knowledge and experience of a wide array of hospitality subjects and technologies.

Be it managing your own start-up, or a role in a corporate hospitality firm, Ecole Hoteliere Lavasa (LEH) is your grooming ground. LEH students have been placed at reputed hospitality firms in India & abroad.

Certified by Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland, LEH offers a four year international programme in Hospitality Management, where students have access to luxury and budget hotels, spas and service apartments, clubs and restaurants to practice what they learn, at Lavasa city.

Campus Highlights:

• Wi-Fi Enabled Multimedia Classrooms

• Training & Display Kitchens

• Bakery, Confectionary & Patisserie

• Chocolate Room

• Wine Testing Lab

• Cyber Hotel

• Housekeeping Lab

• 4 Live Restaurants

About Dorchester Collection

Dorchester Collection is a luxury hotel operator owned by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), an arm of the Ministry of Finance of Brunei. Dorchester Collection owns and manages 10 luxury five star hotels, The Dorchester, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Plaza Athénée, Hotel Meurice, Principe di Savoia, Hotel Bel-Air, Coworth Park, 45 Park Lane, Le Richemond and Hotel Eden.

In 1987, the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, bought the Dorchester Hotel and the Beverly Hills Hotel and then transferred the ownership to the Brunei Investment Agency in 1991. The Audley Group, owned by the BIA, was established in 1996 to manage the hotels under one company. Later, the Audley Group became the Dorchester Group Limited. The Dorchester Group Ltd. owns the Dorchester Collection which was established in 2006 to manage several luxury hotels in Europe and the United States. The Dorchester Collection manages 10 luxury hotels. The hotels are a mix of wholly owned and part-owned hotels as the Dorchester Collection acquires them and manages them on behalf of third party owners.

About Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL)

As the oldest hotel school in the world—founded in 1893—EHL offers university-level studies to talented and ambitious students who are aiming for top careers in the hospitality industry. In Switzerland, it is the only institute of hospitality management of HES, Haute Ecole Spécialisée (University of Applied Sciences) level offering advanced programmes which are recognized by the Federal Council. Lausanne Hospitality Consulting (LHC), the consulting & Executive Education arm of EHL is established as a benchmark provider of management consulting, technical and behavioural development and executive education.

Photo Caption : Nirmitee Mehta, Anna Church, Donal Ennis, Aaron Laurie and Maruan Elana

Warm regards,

Nikhil Nimak

Trainee Account Executive, Infra And Realty