Organized for students by students, the hospitality summit, Young Hoteliers Summit 2010, was the first of its kind. The summit became an instant success for its participants, organizing team as well as the industry leaders of the hospitality industry.

The Young Hoteliers Summit or YHS is a project that is initiated by the Career Club, which is a student-run organization at the Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne or EHL. With the aim of broadening the communication between international hotel schools, the first YHS was held on January 28th and 29th, this year.

This Young Hoteliers Summit 2010 is considered the first step towards the enhancement of communication between various international hospitality schools along with building a bridge with the industry. Nine of the most prestigious international hotel schools from around the world were brought together to solve a Creativity Challenge forwarded by the Jumeirah Group.

Industry leaders like Guy Crawford, CEO of Jumeirah Group, David Cochrane, CEO of Hospitality Industry Trust Scotland and Michael Levie, CEO of CitizenM are some of the recognized faces of the summit.

The major highlight of the summit was on 29th January, when the participating teams had to convince the jury during an 8 minutes presentation of their solution to a creativity challenge forwarded by the Jumeirah Group.

The participating schools of the Young Hoteliers Summit 2010 were:
 
- Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad - India
- Hotelschool the Hague of Netherlands
- Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management of United Arab Emirates
- Rosen College of Hospitality Management of USA
- Breda University of Applied Sciences of Netherlands
- Sagesse University of Hospitality Management of Lebanon
- Shannon College of Hotel Management of Ireland
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel and Tourism Management