BBI’s teaching is carried out by professors certified hospitality educator, qualified lecturers and junior lecturers who are recruited for their professional skills and teaching ability.

The objective for lecturers is to simplify and as much as possible give concrete expression to complicated theoretical notions, to adjust teaching to the level of understanding of all the students and above all to encourage students to think outside the box by developing their own way of thinking. This is why each class is given by subject specialists.

As members of different professional organizations and university faculties, our teaching staff follows continuous professional training programmes in order to keep them up to standard, both theoretically and practically, and this guarantees their seriousness, effectiveness and professionalism as regards new technologies and the latest work techniques.

Their skills are periodically examined by the EI accreditation body of the AH&LA. Their teaching qualification (CHE – Certified Hospitality Educator) is renewed every five years, following examinations. Teaching staff must also subscribe to the principle of critical questioning which explicitly rejects all dogmas.

In addition, with the aim of supplementing and diversifying its teaching, BBI calls on numerous well-known professionals and foreign lecturers to share their experiences with the students in the form of talks or case studies which add to the theoretical classes.

The BBI foundation is governed by two bodies: the organizing authority and the academic board. The latter defines policy for teaching programmes, continuous professional training and technical consultancy services for companies. The Board draws up action plans and ensures they are applied. It coordinates the organization and management.

The Academic Board is made up of a maximum of twenty-four members, who are named from the members of the organizing authority, the lecturers and junior lecturers, academics (from different academic backgrounds) and professionals (both Belgian and foreign) from the hospitality and tourism industries.

The organizing authority consults the Academic Board about economic, cultural and social options for the foundation, as well as regarding the foundation’s relations with the professional world, organizations and the authorities.