Another first by MLH

Mount Lavinia Hotel has branched out into Maldives with the opening of its sister hotel in Vakarufalhi in 2009. In order to boost the tourism industry in Maldives, it will carry out to educate and train over 100 Maldivian Industry personnel.

The Education and Training programme will be conducted by the Mount Lavinia Hotel’s International Hotel School.

Over the past two decades MLH has taken upon itself to train young men and women of low and middle income families in the rural areas for the first time in Sri Lanka.

Since 1990 Mount Lavinia Hotel with its Youth Trainee Programmes has trained over 1500 hoteliers to the industry. This led to the PATA awarding Mount Lavinia Hotel with the PATA Grand Award 2006 for Education and Training, the year which Mount Lavinia Hotel celebrated 200 years.

This was the first time a Sri Lankan hotel won the prestigious PATA Grand Award for Education and Training. The International Hotel School is the only functional hotel school in Sri Lanka with a history of 21 years.

The school was the only hotel school to win 6 medals out of seven participants at the Culinary Art Competition held in 2011. The Hotel School is reputed for its bespoke training of hoteliers. It is with this experience that the school will empower the Maldivian hoteliers with Education and Training.

The International Hotel School joined hands with the NDB Bank on a Jeewana Livelihood programme for the first time in Sri Lanka to empower the marginalized youth in the North East and now in the South with the intension of providing education and training for those who are pursuing careers in the Hospitality industry.

The objective of the training in addition to Hospitality skills is life skills, grooming and etiquettes, moral and character building. Their aim is to train the youth from base level to a better source of income, to take care of them and will be responsible for themselves, their families and also the community at large. Talking on this programme the MLH International Hotel School Principal Mahendra Hulangamuwa stated, “The purpose of this programme is to increase and strengthen individuals while giving more attention to their functional capabilities”.