Study hotel management at the Vatel School in Nimes

VATEL NIMES, 14,000 SQUARE METERS FOR HOTEL MANAGEMENT COURSES AND PRACTICAL TRAINING

Vatel Nimes is a school, an application hotel and four-star spa, as well as a student residence, all on the same campus. Complete and comprehensive courses, which appeal to young adults from the entire world: 45 different nationalities of students on site, who take Vatel courses either in French or in English.

LANGUAGES:
Classes here are taught in English and French

LARGE VENUES FOR THEORETICAL COURSES

So its 900 students can learn and study comfortably, Vatel Nimes has:17 classrooms | 1 amphitheater with audio and video equipment, seating 100 | 2 IT rooms

A FOUR-STAR HOTEL FOR HANDS-ON TRAINING IN HOSPITALITY

One week at the brand-new front desk, another one in one of our restaurants, then another one in the rooms division: the Nimes Vatel **** Hotel lets its students gain experience in different departments:
42 rooms and 4 suites | A gourmet restaurant | A brasserie | Flexible function rooms from 50 to 180 m2 | Two application kitchens | A pastry kitchen | A Spa

In addition, the Vatel Gourmet Les Halles shop allows students to discover how a catering boutique operates.

A RESIDENCE WITH 200 ROOMS AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES

The 200 rooms in the student residence are all individual, equipped and connected, and located near the school and the Vatel Hotel & Spa. Students can access the hotel’s fitness area that includes a pool, a jacuzzi, exercise machines and a sun room, with a membership that gives them preferential rates.

Crédit : Jean-Claude Azira

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School location

140 Rue Vatel, 30900 Nîmes

Not far from the Mediterranean Sea and just three hours from Paris by TGV, Nimes is in the heart of traditional area, with Camargue in the south and Cevennes in the north. Nimes, the largest city of the Gard department, has 133,000 inhabitants and 12,000 students.

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Professors

Myriam VANDENBERGUE Human resources

Graduate in Human Resources Management from Portsmouth University (UK) and from Valenciennes University (France) in 1990, she was first of all based in London, where she worked for different American companies as Human Resources Manager (Zenith Data Systems, Bausch & Lomb, PictureTel, KLA-Tencor) first with national responsibility but quickly extending her role to European responsibilities. After 12 years’ experience, she decided to move into teaching in order to share her experience with French and foreign students.

Linda FERHAT-PARTOUCHE Economic law - Legal culture

Graduated from the Panthéon-Sorbonne and Aix-Marseille III Universities in Political Science and International Law (PhD), she quickly moves towards higher education. She combines her academic knowledge with field experience. She conducts field missions internationally as an international lawyer for international organizations (Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Morocco, Mauritania).

Jean-Marie PERROT Financial analysis - Financial management - Taxation

With a superior financial background, he has held positions in Financial Management, General Management and Consulting in France and abroad in international groups for over thirty years. In parallel, for 18 years, he has been working in French and English in several Business Schools for the training of future international managers and accountants.
Jean-Marie PERROT currently holds his mandates in the framework of his firm SAFIR Management created in 1993.

Pierre-Paul BARROIS Human resources

The career of Pierre-Paul BARROIS (PPB) is characterized by an alternation between skills development, professional experiences and ongoing training. After a few years of resumption of studies in management (in particular in HRM and strategy, then DEA and PhD in economics), he resumes a professional activity as a consultant by partnering with an international consulting firm specialized in human resources. recruitment and at the same time he creates his own consulting and training company. Today, its activity is divided halfway between training in HRM and business creation in different schools, half between auditing, organizational consulting, HR and training (management) in different companies in any sector of activity with a resolutely active, creative and fun pedagogical approach.

YOUR CONTACT

Elisabeth CRES
Responsable des admissions
Ph. : +33 (0)4 66 62 57 03
140 rue Vatel 30900
Nîmes, FR

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News

Defending the colors of a regional company

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Peninsula Paris teams at Vatel Nimes

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Tours and secret passageways

Because 4, 3 or 2-star hotels are not managed the same way, Vatel Nimes students toured two Ibis hotels in town.

French TV channel, France 3, cameras investigate Vatel

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