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  Given the economic crisis due to COVID-19, Terre de Vins brought together wine tourism companies and partners of the Wine Tourism Trophies. Here, they present a situation report and talk about the future of their sector. Today, wine tourism is a major challenge for Gironde, the biggest French département in terms of vineyard land [...]

  Matthieu Dubourg, founder of B-Happy, presented a webinar to Vatel Bordeaux students and applicants sharing some keys to handling stressful situations better and boosting their chances of success. Here is a short summary. Drawing on the neurosciences, Matthieu Dubourg introduced several positive psychology tools. The goal? Learning how to handle stress better in order [...]

  Already a lecturer on wine vintages at Vatel Bordeaux, Annabelle Mispelblom Beijer has graduated with a Diploma in Wines (WSET Level 4) and can now indulge her passion further by sharing her love of wine while preparing our students for WSET Level 3. The Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) is the most widely [...]

To better live the lockdown, Vatel Bordeaux set up free online sport classes: pilates, stretching, yoga, strengthening… Here is the testimony of Antonia Feldmann, a second-year Bachelor student. With the experts ‘Spinbreak’ and ‘Yoga with you’, Vatel Bordeaux started free online sport courses from April to June 2020 dedicated to its students, teachers and the [...]

  Graduated from the Coventry University in Commercialization & Marketing, Alexandre Carton joined Vatel Bordeaux for the MBA in International Hotel Management. Alexandre shares with us his experience of studying during the lockdown and after. How are you keeping up with your studies? I am actually following all classes online, through the software Zoom. We needed to [...]

  MBA graduate in International Hotel Management (specialization International Wine & Spirits Management) Hugo Lucas works as a wine broker at Levêque et Associés, a company founded in 1998. Can you share with us your professional background? I was always a wine lover and particularly a Bordeaux Grand Cru enthusiast. I left my hometown Britany [...]

  With 20 years of experience in strategy consulting for business leaders, Pascal Decombis imparts his knowledge in entrepreneurship to our last-year Bachelor students and first-year MBA students. What does a teaching day look like for you? For Vatel Bordeaux, I do remote teaching from 7 am until 7 pm one day per week, 1 [...]

  Previously in charge of marketing-partnerships for Accor Group, Gaëlle Larroutis is currently teaching via distance learning the subject of Enterprise marketing techniques for our Bachelor students. Here are her recommendations. Gaëlle Larroutis is the founder of GL image & Hotel expertise, and currently teaches the subject of Enterprise marketing techniques at Vatel Bordeaux. She [...]

  The consequences of Covid-19 outbreak which is currently overwhelming the world induce a great deal of anxiety. Let’s work on beating our stress throughout this discomforting period thanks to the 'positive psychology'. You’ve obviously rarely experienced such a distressing period! Juggling between your courses, your exam preparation, your dissertation, your search for a school [...]

Coming from Quito (Equator), Ana Paz Sanchez Aranciba is a first year Bachelor student at Vatel Bordeaux. She shares with us some guidelines to study at home without getting distracted. How are you keeping up with your studies? I attend my online classes and after them I immediately review the documents we received and do [...]