Paris Inter.Continental General Manager Comes Home

the link inside L.R. June 1997
in pursuit of environmental excellence
Those of you who attended Les Roches as
recently as January 1995 will know that our
third year programme proudly boasts a course
entitled ‘Environmental Studies’. This is largely
in recognition of the fact that the hospitality
industry as much as any other industry today,
must address the environmental ethic. For
those of you who have not attended Les
Roches as recently as this, the course is based
upon equipping our future managers with the
knowledge they need to meet the following planet-friendly
ideals:
• Structuring environmental management
• Understanding today’s environmental concerns
• Water conservation
• Energy conservation
• Minimising the ‘Solid Waste Stream’
• Monitoring and managing ‘Indoor Air Quality’
• Safe handling, use and disposing of
hazardous substances
• Tailoring of ‘Product Purchasing Principles’
to include environmental concerns
The ‘Environmental Studies’ course is worth
two credits and has forty-five contact hours
during the management semester. Updated,
relevant information is gained from the
‘International Hotels Environment Initiative’.
Throughout the course, case studies from
hotels and restaurants around the world provide
practical information, detailing how, exactly
our industry has answered environmental
concerns and the successes their operations
have gained.
Practising what we preach !
Autumn 1996 saw the management
students conducting an ‘Initial
Review’ of Les Roches, which
measured our environmental performance
at that time. No small
task! The students gathered the
relevant information as project
work, and it must be said that they
did a brilliant job. They were supported
all the way by the Principal,
Mr Favre, and the Environmental
Studies lecturer Mrs Christine
Small.
The staff of every department cooperated,
giving of their own free
time and expertise to answer student
queries. (A big THANK YOU
to all staff and students involved.)
The results were impressive and our first task
was to put together an encouraging display of
what exactly our own establishment does now
for the sake of the environment. The student’s
own publication ‘Les Roches - Our Green
Side’ will be the subject of a future article.
Watch this space !
The work continues, our environmental program
must be active. The students of Spring
’97 continue the good work. They are refining
and honing established environmental initiatives
and investigating new ones.
Mrs. Christine Small, lecturer
Richter on sports
Things change, and we can’t really be angry
with Jane Fonda for superseding
“Turnvater’* Friedrich Jahn. However, did
things really improve Of course it does not
make sense to die fit! It is so much better to
fall in love with yourself every Monday evening
stepping the two-four time on a fat-burner
Our chased Ego bungy-jumps between
virtual personality-lifting and Step-out 4,
while team spirit is stunted but national boasting
remains.
But not in Les Roches! When we win another
trophy then we show (as educated hospitality
people) what a multi-purpose vessel
such a cup can be! Every day we learn how to
share it by having a good time in a wonderful
surrounding of cultural diversity. This is what
we understand by body-language by whispering
“Mens sana in corpore sano”.
* Gymnastics Founder
(left to right) Wens Solsona (2 Golds for skiing at Leysin), Sandra Bell (Mixed hockey at ITCH
Sportsday), Daniel Boe (Men’s soccer ICHA), Varun Sharma (Table tennis ICHA), Juan Trossero
(Men’s volleyball ICHA), Nicolai Richter (Sports Co-ordinator). Missing from photo, Jonas
Westring (Silver for skiing at Leysin).
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