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Over the past few months we had been working actively with students and teachers from the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, the leading hospitality school in the world, in order to develop our marketing plan. We did this in the context of the “Student Business Project”: at the end of their studies at the school, all students undertake – as their final project – a consulting work submitted by an external company. This semester HouseTrip was one of those companies: some of its founders being alumni from the school, we knew about the effectiveness and the dedication students put in their studies’ last piece of work!

This Wednesday, this page in HouseTrip’s history has come to an end since the students presented their work to us and handed us out their final report. Their research of course confirmed the fantastic potential for HouseTrip and gave us some great ideas we will use to delight our future users! We are all quite excited about what is coming!

Below you can see a picture of the very international team who worked with us. From left to right: Shay Shaked from Israel, myself, Eva-Maria Hufnagel from Germany, Nadine Wirz from Switzerland, Ambika Seth from India, Martina Unternaehrer from Switzerland and Dominik, Junjun and Adrian from HouseTrip!

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At the end of the project's final presentation

Apparently, in the course of the project, we even managed to convert Ambika to entrepreneurship: she wants to launch her own hospitality concept and she has the HouseTrip team best wishes and full support for that!

Thank you so much again for all your hard work and we hope to keep in touch. Please come back to this web address in the middle of the summer to see some of your recommendations being implemented on the website!

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  • good idea. well done!

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  • I really appreciate your enthusiasm John :-)

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  • awesome post. loving this!

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  • Thank you John

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  • very nice post. interesting read.

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Our clever guests have realized that for the price of a tiny, soulless hotel room they can have an entire house, or apartment, or castle, or boat… We give them over 10,000 choices in hundreds of destinations across the world, many with unbiased reviews from previous guests – and the list is growing every day.

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