Successful Business Projects
33% Les Roches graduates open their own business.
Le Roche Institute students are given excellent opportunities to develop ideas for opening their own companies. Entrepreneurship, Campus Entrepreneurship and business incubator are the ideal basis for start-up businessmen.
#LesRoches programmes focusing on the opening and management of companies develop students ' ability to make non-standard innovations to meet the needs of the industry. Working individually and in teams, they have extensive knowledge of research and planning, which is necessary for start-up new business♪ But this training does not end, students who come up with viable ideas can translate their projects into reality as part of a business incubator where it is also possible to obtain the initial capital needed to start a company.
Therefore, 33 per cent of Les Roches International School of Hotel Management graduates become entrepreneurs, implementing successful business projects that started in the school walls. A special web portal was launched last week, where everyone can meet companies opened by former students at the hospitality school.
One of them, Nelson Carvalierro, who was the founder of a successful nelsoncarvalheiro.com travel site, which presented useful stories about culinary and wines from around the world. Its particular feature is that all the information comes from first hand, i.e. locals. Today, more than 40,000 unique visitors per day from 160 countries around the world have visited the site, with more than 54,000 signatories to social media updates.