The Faculty of Resort and Tourism Administration (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic College was deeply honoured to be bestowed the 2023 ISTTE Institutional Achievement Award by the Worldwide Society of Journey and Tourism Educators (ISTTE) in recognition of its important contributions to tourism training.
The newest honour was bestowed on the Annual Convention of the Worldwide Society of Journey and Tourism Educators held in Toronto, Canada on 16–18 October 2023. The SHTM was praised for its management in advancing tourism training within the area and the world for its innovativeness in tutorial programming and world-class educating and analysis amenities.
Professor Kaye Chon, SHTM Dean, Chair Professor and Walter and Wendy Kwok Household Basis Professor in Worldwide Hospitality Administration, mentioned that the accolade additional underpins the Faculty’s world-leading place in offering revolutionary programmes that advance the tourism and hospitality sector’s growth. “As a worldwide centre of excellence in hospitality and tourism training and analysis, the SHTM is properly poised to proceed to guide hospitality and tourism within the years to come back,” he remarked.
The SHTM has made an enduring mark on hospitality and tourism training by being a two-time recipient of the ISTTE Institutional Achievement Award. The Faculty first obtained the distinguished award in 2003, recognising its dedication to instructional excellence. A ringing endorsement of the SHTM’s visionary management, devoted researchers and revolutionary instructional method, the award confirms the Faculty’s excellent status and dedication in offering world-class hospitality and tourism training for Hong Kong and past.
— Supply: Hong Kong Poly
Taking this chance, the SHTM is delighted to announce that the 43rd Annual ISTTE Convention can be held at Resort ICON, Hong Kong on 14-16 October 2024. The yr 2024 is a particular yr for the SHTM because it marks the Faculty’s 45th anniversary. In internet hosting a world occasion as celebrated because the annual ISTTE Convention in such an auspicious yr, the SHTM goals to additional contribute to the ISTTE and to increase the frontier of information in tourism and hospitality.
The Worldwide Society of Journey and Tourism Educators is a world organisation of journey, tourism and hospitality professionals representing all ranges of instructional establishments. A non-profit worldwide organisation, the ISTTE is devoted to bettering the standard of training and analysis in journey, tourism and hospitality by selling the alternate of data and concepts and excellent service amongst its members.
About PolyU’s Faculty of Resort and Tourism Administration
For over 40 years, the Faculty of Resort and Tourism Administration (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic College has refined a particular imaginative and prescient of hospitality and tourism training and turn out to be a world-leading resort and tourism faculty. Ranked No. 1 on the earth within the “Hospitality and Tourism Administration” class in ShanghaiRanking’s World Rating of Educational Topics 2022 for the sixth consecutive yr; positioned No. 1 globally within the “Commerce, Administration, Tourism and Providers” class within the College Rating by Educational Efficiency in 2022/2023 for six years in a row; rated No. 1 on the earth within the “Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism” topic space within the CWUR Rankings by Topic 2017; and ranked No. 2 on the earth amongst college primarily based programmes within the “Hospitality and Leisure Administration” topic space within the QS World College Rankings by Topic 2023 for the seventh consecutive yr, the SHTM is a logo of excellence within the area, exemplifying its motto of Main Hospitality and Tourism.
The Faculty is pushed by the necessity to serve its business and tutorial communities by means of the development of training and dissemination of information. With a robust worldwide staff of 90 school members from 20 international locations and areas around the globe, the SHTM gives programmes at ranges starting from undergraduate to doctoral levels. Via Resort ICON, the Faculty’s groundbreaking educating and analysis resort and an important facet of its paradigm-shifting method to hospitality and tourism training, the SHTM is advancing educating, studying and analysis, and galvanizing a brand new era of passionate, pioneering professionals to take their positions as leaders within the hospitality and tourism business.
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