For those responsible for educating the next generation of hospitality professionals, the seminars we run in many Central and Eastern European cities help to raise teaching standards, as do the technical libraries we have set up in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and the Ukraine, and the laboratory equipment we have provided for training kitchens in Plovdiv, Presov, Prague, Roman, Vilnius, Wisla, Opava, Bucharest, Odessa, Ohrid and Maribor.