正好赶上QS大学排名：2016年欧洲经济区大学排名（https://www.qschina.cn/university-rankings/eeca-rankings/2016）发布，把你的《不能承受的生命之轻》放在一边，相信TopUniversities.com会把你送到捷克首都的铺装街道。既然我们已经满足了你的漫游欲，为什么还要读昆德拉？

在2016年QS最佳学生城市评选中（https://www.qschina.cn/city-rankings/2016#sorting=rank+custom=rank+order=desc+search=），布拉格与上海并列第39位，这里有三所QS排名靠前的大学，特别是其多样化的学生组合，以及其经济能力、繁荣的艺术场景和令人眼花缭乱的夜生活，使其脱颖而出。

因此，如果你希望在欧洲学习，那么捷克首都可能适合你......以下是你应该尽快到布拉格学习的七个原因。 

1. 就读顶级大学。

捷克首都拥有三所领先的机构，在QS排名中一直位居世界前列。其中的佼佼者，布拉格查尔斯大学，在QS世界大学排名®2015/16中（https://www.qschina.cn/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2015#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=）排名第279位，在最新版新兴欧洲和中亚地区（https://www.qschina.cn/university-rankings/eeca-rankings/2016）的QS大学排名中排名第四。紧随查尔斯大学之后的是位于布拉格的捷克技术大学（https://www.qschina.cn/universities/czech-technical-university-prague）和布拉格经济大学（https://www.qschina.cn/universities/prague-university-economics-business），这两所大学也广为人知，在国际上排名靠前。

2. 结交国际朋友。

国际学生占上述国际排名大学入学人数的15%，而且布拉格是一个内在的国际大都市，习惯于满足不同国籍的人。如果你选择在布拉格学习，你很可能会交到一群来自不同国家的朋友，并反过来成长为一个人（总是一个优点）!

3. 因为在布拉格，艺术无处不在。 

从街头艺术到2009年开业的蒙塔内利博物馆（http://museummontanelli.com/en/），成为当代艺术的领导者，再到徕卡画廊（http://www.lgp.cz/en.html）精彩的摄影作品集，这里有适合各种口味的东西......

4. 在布拉格包罗万象的夜生活中欢欣鼓舞。

相信我们这一点，布拉格的夜生活是欧洲最好的之一。无论你是喜欢舒适的啤酒花园，还是喜欢通宵营业的大型舞蹈俱乐部，或者是地下洞穴酒吧，这里的夜生活都能满足你的各种口味。

 5. 生活在一个真正美丽的城市。

忘记伦敦和柏林吧。布拉格是一个让人赏心悦目的地方。如果你要在欧洲学习，那么最好是在一个历史悠久的城市，那里有古朴的小街和受哥特式、文艺复兴式、罗马式、立体主义和新艺术风格影响的建筑。

 6. 省钱。

根据美世的生活成本调查，虽然国际学生的学费处于中等水平，但布拉格并不像其他顶级学生城市那样昂贵。根据Numbeo.com的数据，在市中心租一套一室一厅的公寓，每月大约需要13,900克朗（约580美元），而一条面包大约需要20克朗（0.80美元）。

 7. 为你的职业前景增压。

从向你介绍一个新的关系网络和多样化的校友社区，到为国际职业生涯开辟道路，在欧洲主要城市留学将帮助你发展关键的可转移技能，并获得更多的工作机会。

Click here to view the results of the QS Latin America University Rankings 2018.

This week saw the launch of the QS University Rankings: Latin America 2016, showcasing the top 300 universities in the Latin American region. A total of 45 Mexican universities are featured, making Mexico the second most-represented nation, behind Brazil, which has 76 institutions ranked. Scroll down for a complete list of Mexican universities included, and their 2016 ranking positions.

The QS University Rankings: Latin America is compiled annually, assessing institutions using eight performance indicators. Click here for an overview of the 2016 results, featuring universities from 20 nations across Latin America.

The 2016 edition of the QS University Rankings: Latin America sees Brazilian universities retain their dominance of the table. Brazil’s Universidade de Sao Paulo and Universidade Estadual de Campinas retain their positions as the region’s top two, joined by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade de Brasilia within the top 10. Overall, Brazilian universities account for 76 of the 300 Latin American universities featured in the ranking, comfortably more than any other nation.

While Chile’s Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile holds onto third place, Mexico’s Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico climbs two positions to rank fourth – swapping places with the Universidad de Chile. It’s also a good year for Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), which rises from 9^th to 7^th. The only other nation to feature in the top 10 is Colombia, with Universidad de Los Andes in 8^th place and Universidad Nacional de Colombia climbing three places to 10^th.

After Brazil, Mexico is the second most-represented nation in the ranking, with 45 entries – ahead of Colombia, with 41. Argentina makes 34 appearances, led by the Universidad de Buenos Aires, which is now just outside the top 10, having climbed from 15th to 11th this year. Chile has 30 featured universities, and Peru 17.

Also featured are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela – bringing the total number of nations covered to 20.

First published in 2011, the QS University Rankings: Latin America aims to celebrate and track the strengths and progress of leading universities in the region. It is compiled using a methodology which draws on eight performance indicators: academic reputation, employment reputation, faculty/student ratio, papers per faculty, citations per paper, proportion of staff with a PhD, online impact and international research network (a new measure for 2016).

The Connect Masters 1-2-1 Scholarship, worth US$2,000, is awarded every year exclusively to a student who has participated in the Connect Masters 1-2-1 scheme. Connect Masters 1-2-1, part of the QS World Grad School Tour, is a free service which allows prospective postgraduates to meet face-to-face with university representatives from around the world, allowing them to professionally discuss next steps for their career and studies.

This year’s winner is Lamarah Williams Steele, from the UK, who attended the Connect Masters 1-2-1 event in London in autumn 2015. Lamarah has been accepted to study a Masters in Management degree at IE Business School in Madrid, with a specialization in international business. She says the Connect Masters Scholarship will help to lighten the financial burden, enabling her to focus on achieving her education and career goals. She says: “Easing this worry means I can look forward to enjoying the whole experience. It also means I will have more resources to enjoy things that enhance my experience, such as study trips.”

Lamarah adds that attending the Connect Masters 1-2-1 event helped her to make a decision on where to apply for her master’s degree, saying: “Going to the fair and talking to a number of representatives at Connect 1-2-1 helped me navigate the postgraduate world”. She explains that the event helped her to feel more confident that she was the type of candidate business school are looking for, and to identify the school that would suit her best.

Entrepreneurial goals for the future

Lamarah previously studied a BSc in International Politics at Brunel University in the UK, graduating with first-class honors in July 2015. During this time, she took part in an exchange program to the University of Nottingham’s branch campus in Ningbo, China, which she says opened her mind and widened her world view. As part of this exchange program, she was awarded the Ningbo Government International Student Scholarship for Academic Excellence.

Since graduating, Lamarah has been working as a public affairs intern for Amazon, and has also completed a Civil Service Summer Diversity Program at the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions. Following this work experience, and her experience of studying abroad in China, Lamarah feels certain she’d like to study abroad again – this time in Spain. Keen to keep learning new things, and to develop and strengthen her existing skills, she says: “the best environment to do this is a diverse one, which is something that IE prides itself on.”

Looking to the future, Lamarah says her long-term goal is to “start a social enterprise organisation that focuses on giving children and young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds opportunities in sport and extra-curricular activities that would otherwise be unaffordable.” This interest in social entrepreneurship underlies her decision to study at IE Business School, which has a strong focus on entrepreneurship. She is keen to broaden her understanding of business, gaining specific knowledge on how to be a successful entrepreneur and create a new business, and says that by studying a Masters in Management at IE she hopes to “develop my entrepreneurial skills, my confidence, develop a diverse network of friends, continue to broaden my worldview and strengthen my leadership skills.”

Lamarah also offered some advice for other students applying for scholarships, saying: “Go for it. I think people assume that they don't have a chance because there will be a lot of people that apply for a particular scholarship, but that shouldn't stop you. You have nothing to lose by applying, and shouldn't doubt that you may be the type of person that an organisation is looking to award a scholarship to. You definitely do not have a chance of being awarded a scholarship if you don't apply for one.”

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根据世界旅游业理事会的说法，酒店业是 "单一最大的雇主，支持全球每11个工作岗位中的一个"，并被视为 "经济发展和创造就业机会的催化剂"（安永会计师事务所 - 2016年全球酒店业洞察力报告），酒店业是全世界公认的一个蓬勃发展的行业。

这个庞大的行业是由许多不同的和有价值的酒店业职业组成的。例如，食品和饮料（F&B）部门是酒店业的最大领域。从高端餐厅到快餐店和餐饮业，餐饮业在各大洲都是一个充满活力的市场。与餐饮业高度相关的是住宿业，包括酒店、床位和早餐企业和其他住宿选择，以及旅行和旅游类别，其中包括航空公司、火车、游轮和游乐园。你也可以决定在活动公司、水疗中心、会议中心等地从事酒店业职业。

那么，在这个竞争激烈、蓬勃发展和多层面的行业中起步时，你应该注意哪些趋势？此外，你如何才能获得帮助你理解和分析这些趋势以及伴随创新理念而来的挑战的技能？请继续阅读，了解你需要了解的主要酒店业趋势，以及帮助你跟上步伐的技能。

改变酒店业的主要趋势

无论你是在快餐公司的业务发展计划中工作，还是在丽思卡尔顿酒店的沟通和营销部门工作，有一些关键的行业趋势你必须考虑到

1. 新技术的使用

首先，知道如何利用新技术来发挥你的优势，在今天的全球酒店业是最重要的。从移动签到和地理定位到特殊折扣应用程序、在线广告和数字礼宾系统，你必须确保客户的体验是独一无二的。在Hospitalitynet.com上发表的一篇文章中，获奖的酒店管理技术公司Navis解释说，"2016年，51.8%通过数字手段预订旅行的旅行者将使用移动设备"。

与新技术相关的是社交媒体的使用。确保机构在Twitter、Instagram、YouTube、Facebook或Foursquare上的可见度对酒店业来说至关重要。为什么？因为社交媒体网络是客户体验的一个组成部分。几年前，凯悦酒店在Twitter上推出了礼宾服务，让顾客找到附近的公园，而位于拉斯维加斯的永利酒店和赌场则向所有在Foursquare上登记入住的用户提供免费的香槟酒杯。社交媒体还可以用来向顾客发送促销优惠，如酒店或餐馆的折扣券。

此外，由于老虎机对千禧一代的吸引力不如前几代人，赌场经营者正在考虑如何将社交媒体整合到他们的游戏平台和日常运营中。正如安永会计师事务所在其《全球酒店业观察》中所解释的。2016年的十大想法。"解决这个问题对博彩业的长期成功至关重要，因为现代赌场的博彩收入大约有70%-80%来自老虎机"。因此，赌场业正在分析像凯撒宫这样的酒店如何重新安排他们的楼层布局，老虎机制造商正在评估他们的游戏如何变得更加互动和社会化。

2. 收集数据以改善客户体验

酒店业未来领导者必须关注的另一个趋势是使用先进的分析方法、收入管理系统和客户细分，以提高忠诚度。客户忠诚度计划已经存在多年，虽然它们对于吸引和保留客户非常有用，但这些计划需要发展。 正如安永会计师事务所在《全球酒店业观察》中提到的。2016年十大想法》中提到，通过使用这些数据收集器，"企业有能力通过向客户提供意想不到的奖励（如升级、茶点、娱乐和独特体验），不断给客户带来惊喜和快乐"。

3. 将可持续性纳入考虑范围

由于可持续性现在是一个全球性的问题，酒店业需要找出符合法规的方法，并将这一核心主题置于其战略的核心。当万豪、希尔顿或雅高酒店等酒店集团旨在减少对环境的影响时，经济和社会层面也在发挥作用。在Hospitality.Net上发表的一篇文章中，Conscious Hospitality的创始人Arturo Cuenllas声称，"可持续性必须被明确视为一个新的质量管理维度，一个创新的来源，以及21世纪的一个新范式，尽管它仍然需要与其他战略变量保持一致，比如提供令人难忘的体验，提供良好的产品和出色的服务。当然，可持续性仍然需要履行经典的经济公理：提供物超所值的服务"。

你如何才能跟上这些酒店业趋势的步伐？

为了在这个广阔的行业中启动你的职业生涯，你将需要发展必要的技能和实践经验，以分析演变和解决行业趋势带来的挑战。 这就是为什么欧洲顶级商学院emlyon商学院和世界知名的酒店管理和美食学院保罗-博古斯学院开发了国际酒店管理硕士课程。这个为期16个月的全日制课程完全用英语授课，提供了理论、战略分析和创造力的平衡，同时允许学生获得实践经验并建立他们的专业网络。此外，最近改变了其教学方法，以确保学生的需求通过适应性方法得到解决和满足，这个国际课程可能是最适合你的! 以下是该课程为你准备酒店业职业的三种方式。

4. 获得专业课程的机会

作为国际酒店管理硕士课程理论方面的一部分，学生可以学习特定的行业课程，如 "酒店财务数据解读"、"电子市场"、"服务质量管理"、"创新管理"、"收入管理"、"酒店财务"、"环境与生态旅游 "和 "高级葡萄酒知识"。 针对当前的热点话题和酒店业的发展趋势，这些课程将帮助你掌握该行业的复杂性，了解其所有方面。

为了确保所有学生在开学时对酒店业有同等的了解，这个独特的国际课程还包括一个专业沉浸模块，专门为帮助没有酒店管理背景的学生从第一天起就沉浸在酒店的运营和文化中。

5. 通过项目、实习和公司访问获得实践经验

由于将理论知识付诸实践对你未来的职业生涯至关重要，国际酒店管理硕士课程全年都有不同的项目。从开发一个创业商业项目和创建一个虚拟公司，到研究一个酒店概念（如餐厅）和完成一个公司内部项目，你将以具体的形式展示你新获得的知识。

你还将受益于四至六个月的实习，这将使你获得切实的经验，并促进你的酒店业职业前景。以前的学员曾在巴黎铂尔曼酒店、特内里费岛丽思卡尔顿酒店、巴黎妈妈庇护所、ClubMed、雅高酒店集团和蒙特卡洛费尔蒙酒店实习过。

6. 专注于酒店业中的一个关键市场

根据德勤2015年酒店业报告，预测到2019年，中国的行业绝对增长将超过美国。对中国和印度国内旅游市场的渗透将为国际品牌带来最大的长期回报。这就是为什么未来的酒店业领导者必须了解亚洲消费者的需求，以及如何利用这一巨大的增长机会。

为了应对这个不断增长的市场，国际酒店管理硕士课程为学生提供了一个在上海的学期，在此期间他们将学习亚洲商业环境、变革管理和酒店品牌设计，以及酒店资产管理和商业模式。

看到自己成为未来一代全球酒店业领导者的一部分？准备好面对这个蓬勃发展的行业的挑战了吗？你已经有了如何为这个行业做出更大贡献的想法？了解国际酒店管理硕士课程，今天就开始启动你的酒店管理事业吧!

This year’s edition of the QS University Rankings: Arab Region, released today, sees Saudi Arabian universities maintain their lead, despite a sustained challenge from institutions in the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals holds onto the top spot, with Lebanon’s American University of Beirut also retaining second place.

Saudi Arabia is home to 19 of the 100 institutions featured, followed by Egypt with 15. When considering only the top 50, however, the United Arab Emirates is on a par with Saudi Arabia – each has 10 institutions ranked at this level.

Meanwhile, the very top of the table is relatively unchanged year-on-year – with the exception of Qatar University’s climb from 11^th to 9^th; this pushes Cairo University into 10^th and displaces Jordan University of Science and Technology, now 13^th.

First published in 2014, the QS University Rankings: Arab Region has been extended this year to cover just under 200 universities in the region (previously 150). A total of 17 countries are represented, with Somalia and Libya now appearing for the first time, following the expansion of the published range.

The ranking is compiled using nine performance indicators, reflecting academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, online impact, proportion of staff with a PhD, research publications, citations per paper, and proportion of international faculty and students. The full methodology can be reviewed here, and the published results can be sorted based on each individual indicator.

This year’s edition of the QS University Rankings: Asia sees the National University of Singapore retain the top spot, following its 12^th-place performance in last year’s QS World University Rankings®. This is also a strong year for Singapore’s other international institutions; Nanyang Technological University climbs from fourth to third, while Singapore Management University enters the ranking in 60^th position.

The University of Hong Kongis stable in second place, with three more Hong Kong-based institutions also within the top 10. China’s Tsinghua University climbs six places this year to rank fifth, overtaking Peking University, which is now ninth. Though South Korea’s two leading institutions have both fallen slightly, the country claims six of the top 20 spots – more than any other nation or territory.

While there are no new entries to the top 20, the National Taiwan University is edging closer, climbing one position to 21^st. There are also strong results for Indian institutions, with improved positions for 18 of the 21 featured in last year’s edition, and two new entries this year. IIT Bangalore remains India’s leader, climbing one place to 33^rd.

In terms of overall strength in numbers, Chinese universities dominate the table, accounting for 82 of the 350 featured institutions. Japan follows with 74 entries, while South Korea has 54, Taiwan 34 and India 23.

Published annually since 2009, the QS University Rankings: Asia aims to provide a comparison of the leading institutions in the region. For 2016, the ranking has been extended to feature the top 350 universities in Asia (from 300 last year), spread across 17 nations and territories, and selected from 920 institutions considered for inclusion.

This year is also the first time the ranking has incorporated proportion of academic staff with a PhD as part of the assessment process. This newly added indicator complements the existing assessment of faculty/student ratio, both aiming to provide proxy measures of institutional commitment to teaching quality.

The full methodology now draws on a total of 10 indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, staff with a PhD, papers published per faculty member, citations per paper, proportion of international staff and students, and proportion of outbound and inbound students.