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The World Gourmet Summit Las Vegas is an annual event of The International Food & Beverage Forum and The International Food & Beverage Forum Hall of Fame Society in association with WGS America LLC, Kurt H. Fischer & Associates LLC, Gustav’s Master Chef Catering, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Las Vegas, the Signature at MGM Grand, and other sponsors. The World Gourmet Summit Las Vegas is a food and wine extravaganza including culinary demonstrations & wine-pairing classes, gourmet dinners, and a Grand Gourmet Safari, with over 80 wineries presenting in excess of 150 wines and internationally renowned Master Chefs presenting their favorite specialties. The World Gourmet Summit Las Vegas offers wine and food enthusiasts an opportunity to hear from top Food & Beverage executives from five continents, to meet internationally renowned Master Chefs and celebrity Winemakers, and to rub shoulders with fellow devotees from around the world.  All events are open to the general public. The main goal of this event is to raise scholarship funds for hospitality students. To achieve this goal every member and benefactor of the International Food & Beverage Forum and the International Food & Beverage Forum Hall of Fame Society donates auction items, such as stays in luxury hotels around the world and dinners in the greatest restaurants of our industry. Other donations are made by friends of the International Food & Beverage Forum members. All auction items, featuring those hotel stays, dinners in top restaurants, and fine wines, are promoted on a special website and offered on this site for a pre World Gourmet Summit bidding. During the various events of the World Gourmet Summit Las Vegas live auctions are organized to finalize the sales of all auction items. The proceeds of those auctions go entirely to the International Food & Beverage Forum Education Fund to support our goal to raise scholarship funds for hospitality students. Since 1996, the International Food & Beverage Forum has honored 15 Restaurateurs of the year, inducted 24 persons into the Hall of Fame. For each honoree the International Food & Beverage Forum donated $ 10,000.00 for scholarships for hospitality students. A total of US $ 550,000 were distributed at several colleges and universities in the United States. To learn more contact kurth@kurthfischer.com