The 2024 summer course for our popular Stagiaires program begins this June. Founded around 30 years ago as a support project for Eastern Europe, it is now a creative solution to the shortage of skilled workers in hospitality and gastronomy industry. Would you also like to benefit from motivated young read more…
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Seasons Greetings
An interesting and challenging years moves towards it’s end. Full of gratefullness I wish to all my customers, friends and partners happy holiday and a great move into 2024. May luck, joy, success and best health be your onling companions in the the new year. I am looking forward to read more…
Young Talents – Next Generation
Last Sunday again 20 young talents of the next generation started our stagiaires-programm. We offer this educational program since 10 years. It takes place the third time at Swiss Educational College in Weggis, Switzerland with a stonning view on Lake Lucerne. The program comprises on a two-week further educational course, read more…
If customers recognize you
in his During my recent stay in The Westin Grand Cape Town all of a sudden a staff member followed me. When I turned round, he asked “Do you remember me, Mr. Wicki?”. Immediately, I remembered his face with his shining eyes – to be honest, I had to cheat read more…
New Partner in South Africa
Recently we signed an agreement with our new South African Partner Liza Maree Vogel from Prestige Excellence in Hermanus to further support and develop hospitality training and education in this wonderful country. We look forward to a fruitful co-operation and we are pround having issued already first 20 certificates for read more…
Looking for Talents in Hospitality
Since 2014, we have been running our successful Stagiaires program twice a year. In the meantime, we could enable 400 young professionals with potential to have a unique experience in Switzerland and identify herewith net talents in hospitality industry. The success story will continue! Would you also like to do read more…
Young Talents – Summer 2023
Actually I am in the middle of our stagiaires-program summer 2023 at my partner college in Weggis. Together with my team I am preparing 34 young talents from Eastern Europoe to their internship in Swiss hospitaltiy and gastronomy. This is not always an easy but a very fulfilling job. On read more…
Little Effort – great Effect
My wife and me are sitting quite often on our terrace in the evenings and enjoy – mostly with a glass of Blaauwklippen wine – the sunset. On the one hand as decoration and on the other hand as natural mosquito repellent we installed some teal torches. We especially enjoy read more…
Season’s end is Season’s Start
For many hotels these days marked the end of the winter season, which ends up in Switzerland typically after Easter break. A lot of tasks have to be completed at the end of a season: basic cleaning, shutting down of various facilities, administrational final work in human resources, packing and read more…
Room numbers refreshingly different
On my recent promotion tour for our stagiaires-program i stayed in a local four-star-hotel in Most, CZ. Already on my way to the room I was fascinated by the corridors. Instead of classical room numbers they were refreshingly different. The design was modern and nice and distributed over the entire read more…