Singapore’s hospitality learning platform Boost raises funding from Swiss hotelier school
Swiss hospitality management university École hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) backs the mobile-based hospitality learning solution
Singapore’s hospitality learning platform Boost has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Switzerland-based École hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), a hospitality management university. The investment will support Boost’s plan to expand its platform, develop new solutions to address the needs of the hospitality industry, and utilise EHL’s expertise.
Using mobile technology, Boost provides team management system with mobile learning, messaging, communication, recruitment (including assessment), measurement and organisational capabilities in the hospitality industry under one platform.
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“Boost allows individual hotel employees to learn new languages and other skills, and at the same time enable management to organise their teams, recruit new team members and communicate using the mobile platform,” said Allan Taylor, Managing Director and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Boost. Boost claimed to have around 20,000 hotel employees using their six different apps of mobile learning solutions, accessing options such as learning Mandarin and learning skills such as upselling hotel revenues.
EHL tunes in with the changing industry and the need of honed language skills for hoteliers by investing in Boost. The platform makes hospitality education accessible to students around the world through learning and upskilling from a screen, and EHL seeks to address the challenge the industry faces in the digital era.
“EHL focuses on tertiary hospitality education. We decided to invest in Boost because we support innovation that enables learning from anywhere, including in the workplace,” said Rémi Walbaum, Chief Innovation Officer or EHL.
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EHL is the hospitality management school founded in 1893 and considered as the pioneer in hospitality education, mixing classroom-based teaching with hands-on learning in real hotels adjusting with on-going trends.
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