THAILAND-based Dusit International scored a first in the country’s hospitality industry with the recent opening of the Dusit Hospitality Management College (DHMC) and dusitD2 The Fort, Manila, an integrated school and hotel at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City.
A premier international institution for higher education in hospitality management, DHMC features programs designed to train students and professionals through 21st-century pedagogy and immersion in real-world operations.
The first in the country, it occupies 10 floors of the dusitD2 hotel and boasts of cutting-edge facilities, such as interactive classrooms with modern audio-visual equipment, learning kitchens, a wine science laboratory and operations simulation wing, and collaborative study areas.
DHMC launched its Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management in Makati City last year in partnership with the 126-year-old École hôtelière de Lausanne (ÉHL) in Switzerland, which is currently ranked the top hospitality management school under the QS World University Rankings.
“Heartwarming service hospitality is an attribute associated with Filipino professionals, and it is in this spirit that Dusit Hospitality Management College chose to embark in this innovative and ambitious endeavor with École hôtelière de Lausanne. With its certified hospitality management program, future hoteliers and concept entrepreneurs can pursue careers in the hospitality sector set in a global landscape,” said DHMC Managing Director Frouke Gerbens.
He added that with the collaboration, DHMC is presenting the finest Swiss hospitality education with dynamic classroom learning, innovative industry approach, and operation assignment set in hotels and restaurants of global standards.
As part of éHL’s world-class instruction and the stringent quality of higher education, management and faculty members of DHMC are progressively certified as qualified learning facilitators.
The hotel component, the dusitD2 The Fort, Manila, is set to open in the first quarter of 2020 and will add to the growing portfolio of the luxe Thai brand in the Philippines.
The modern-minimalist urban haven is a 27-floor tower with 106 serviced residences, and 125 well-appointed guest rooms—three studio type, 13 one-bedroom and two two-bedrooms each floor.
It also has lobby lifestyle retail shops, function areas, recreational facilities, and signature food and beverage outlets—Sparkz Grab and Go bakeshop, Tapz lobby cafe, D’Origine gourmet kitchen and Virtuoso wine bar which has a premier collection curated by the third Best Sommelier of the World and Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite Agricole Francais. The food outlets are managed by Maître Cuisinier de France Cyrille Soenen.
The 2,700-square-meter-property is a joint venture with leading conglomerate Villar Group of Cos., through Dusit Hospitality Education Philippines, and Vista Land and Lifescapes Inc.
“Now is the perfect time to enable our young students to be trained and to provide them with elevated opportunities in an industry where we have always been renowned, given our approach to service hospitality. With industry growth projections and our work force, we are well positioned to cultivate the next generation of learned professionals and uplift the career potential of Filipinos in hospitality,” Vista Land Managing Director Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar concluded.