The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), the School of Tourism Management of the Sun Yet-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, and the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) in Macau, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today for establishing the Greater Bay Area Tourism Research Alliance (the Alliance).
The mission of the SHTM is to engineer knowledge transfer to the hospitality industry and education institutes. Recently, SHTM successfully combined the research prowess of the School with Hotel ICON's practical experience and endeavour, launching SHTM+ICON Consultancy to offer professional hospitality related consultancy services to the industry.Knowledge transfer includes management know-how, creative solutions, and experiences in a practical setting, and it can help organisations to maintain sustainable growth. The services offered by SHTM+ICON Consultancy include the following.
Many Singapore Polytechnic students under the hospitality programme are uninterested in joining the hospitality sector due to its semi-professional nature. The other reasons for not joining the sector include the over stressful and demanding job nature, long working hours, shift work, dealing with unpredictable circumstances in the job environment and having lower starting remuneration when set against other industries.
This article by Hotelivate Executive Search explores two key dilemmas at the forefront of every organization committed to success, growth, and a dynamic and supportive work environment. Predictably, both of these are to do with finding and keeping the right people.
The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and China Outbound Tourism Research Institute Ltd. (COTRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today (3 September 2018) to promote collaboration in tourism education and research.
The global tourism and hospitality industry, and notably in Australia, is faced with the challenge of attracting and retaining quality employees which has resulted a lack of skilled personnel to meet the ever-expanding tourism and hospitality landscape. This challenge can be attributed to several factors. The possible causes for the lack of manpower include a young transient workforce, low levels of pay and formal qualifications, high level of female, student, part-time and casual workers, a high proportion of low skilled jobs, a large proportion of hours worked outside normal business hours, a negative industry image in the eyes of potential employees, a large number of migrant staff, poor utilisation of student labour and high levels of staff turnover. These factors contribute to the challenges in relation to recruitment and retention of quality staff in the industry.
This month, the Singapore Tourism Board's (STB) Open Hotels Weekend programme returned for a second run with registration numbers soaring 50 per cent.
Hoteliers in training can polish Filipino hospitality in five-star rooms and kitchens before they start their careers that are literally an elevator ride away at Dusit Hotel and Resorts' new school in the Philippines.
Colleagues form across the Thai hospitality industry have joined forces with Oxford Brookes University, the Oxford Cultural Collective and the Asean Professional Beverage Academy to deliver a high-impact seminar focused on Tackling the Skills Deficit in Thai Hospitality. The event, which will take place on 12th July 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Erawan, Bangkok, is supported by the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand.
THE options for young people and professionals to get quality learning in hospitality management got broader when the Thailand-based Dusit group announced recently the opening of its Dusit Hospitality Management College (DHMC) in August this year at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, which offers aspiring hoteliers and restaurateurs world-class education following a fully integrated approach.
The first Banyan Tree resort to debut in Malaysia, Banyan Tree Kuala Lumpur is excited to announce nine key appointments to spearhead the resort operations ahead of its launch in June this year.
Everything office-related is oriented towards boosting productivity – from chairs, office desks and the choice of colors to rec rooms. Every passionate professional should aim at maxing out their productivity, and these valuable tips will help you achieve the ultimate goal of becoming a lean, mean success machine.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) entered into a licensing arrangement with Vision Science and Technology Co. Ltd. (VST), a local start-up supported by HKSTP-PolyU Tech Incubation Fund (TIF) and PolyU Tech Launchpad Fund (TLF), for commercializing PolyU's Defocus Incorporated Soft Contact (DISC) lens for myopia control in children. The arrangement exemplifies successful commercialization and transfer of PolyU technology facilitated by entrepreneurship efforts.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has named the premises of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management after a pioneer Hong Kong hotelier, the late Mr Chan Chak-fu, and his wife Mrs Esther Chan Wong Chi-lan in appreciation of the family's significant contributions to PolyU's hospitality and tourism management education.
The Accommodation Association of Australia (AAoA) and Tourism Industry Aotearoa (TIA) have extended their existing partnership with the Australian Revenue Management Association (ARMA) to offer their members access to revenue management training.
Last Wednesday 22nd November, EHL signed a partnership with the EHT in Cambodia to train future professionals. EHT, founded by Paul Dubrule, co-founder of the Accor hotel group, is a vocational school that offers new perspectives to young ambitious students who aim to develop a career in the hospitality industry.
The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) will relaunch its MicroMasters in International Hospitality Management programme in 2018, in view of the popular demand, to provide another opportunity for those who were eager to join the programme last time but were unable to.
"Once you top striving to be better, you stop being good is the Dr. Oetker's motto that we have applied when developing the concept of Oetker Collection Academy", declares Frank Marrenbach, CEO Oetker Collection.
The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University received a donation of HK$1.08 million from Zhejiang Drore Technology Co., Ltd. (Drore) for the establishment of the "Drore Scholarship" in support of the SHTM's efforts in advancing hospitality and tourism education.
Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) are delighted to announce their official academic collaboration with the goal to deliver a unique hospitality management program.