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Hospitality has always been her vocation and Bianca Bekker is now starting her second Bachelor year, after a 4-month internship at the Vatel Bordeaux Hotel.   Bianca is twenty years old and she spent her entire childhood in Africa. She travelled a lot during that time with her family and stayed in many different hotels. […]

Vatel Bordeaux, in July 2016, was the first hospitality management school with an Ecolabel certified application hotel. An approach included in a global educational project.     “Our priority is to train our students to become aware of the stakes involved in companies so that they will be able to become key players in sustainable […]

Qian Qian Wu, a Chinese fifth year student, gives us her opinion on her schooling and life in Aquitaine.     Why did you decide to study at Vatel Bordeaux? Because of Vatel’s great reputation! After I finished my Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management in Amiens, I wanted to specialize in the hospitality […]

Determined to improve her Spanish, Apoline, joined a Vatel school in a Hispanic country even before joining Vatel in Bordeaux, She tells us the about the year she sent Vatel in Buenos Aires. In her search for a unique opportunity, Apolline, a student at Vatel Bordeaux, decided to spend her entire second year in Argentina, […]

Nurtured by the delicate fragrance of the food prepared by his mother and grandmother, Aurélien Bouygues discovered his love of fine dining early on in life. By the age of 12, the Chef was already taking his place at the family’s stove, concocting dishes for young and old.   His career path When he was […]

From 7 to 11 December, five Vatel colleges competed against each other in the Business Game for the fifth consecutive year. In all, sixteen teams took part in the week-long competition. The game’s administrators, in Bordeaux, gave us their impressions of the event. Photo: Jean-Etienne PALARD and David GRIPPER What do you think of the […]

  His career path Despite a baccalauréat majoring in science, Gaëtan Gladieux from Brest had no plans to become a sommelier. He studied electronic engineering for three years but then his career path took a new turn and he decided to seek a professional qualification in wine at the prestigious Georges Pertuiset College in Beaune. His […]

In 2014, Bordeaux was the first city in France to obtain “Destination for All” certification, which acknowledges and promotes areas that provide access to tourist venues for people with mental and physical disabilities. With the same aim in mind, Vatel has committed to provide its future clients with a high-quality welcome, accessibility and information by […]

Pierre Mettelin, Professor of Oenology at Vatel Bordeaux, completed a ten-day trip to the Anhui Region of China last October, visiting the University of Huangshan with which Vatel signed a cooperation agreement in 2014. He shares with us his wonderful experience.     Pierre, through Vatel, you recently had an opportunity to visit the Tunxi district […]

We are delighted and really enthusiast to announce the grand opening of our new campus on last Monday, September 28, 2015.       After 20 years at “La Cité Mondiale du Vin”, we have just moved to our new campus located “4 cours du Médoc”, which is a unique feature in Bordeaux. We now […]