The Conference was officially opened today (3 June) at PolyU’s teaching and research hotel, Hotel ICON by Mr Anthony Lau, Executive Director, Hong Kong Tourism Board; Mr Stanley Yen, Chairman, Landis Management Co. Limited; Ms Cynthia Deale, President of International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (CHRIE); Professor Manat Chaisawat, President of APacCHRIE; Professor Timothy W. Tong, PolyU President; Dr Andy Nazarechuk, Dean of the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, University of Nevada Las Vegas (Singapore Campus); and Professor Kaye Chon, Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, PolyU.
Themed “Hospitality and Tourism Education: From a Vision to an Icon”, the Conference provides delegates as well as the international hospitality and tourism community with an inter-disciplinary platform to exchange information, ideas and views, and to consolidate the research efforts and industry experiences in the field. Together with the APacCHRIE Youth Conference 2011, it will stand as an iconic academic milestone of the industry.
Founded in Hong Kong in 2002 by Professor Kaye Chon, APacCHRIE is the regional advocate of hospitality and tourism education for schools, colleges, and universities offering programmes in hotel and restaurant management, foodservice management and culinary arts. It has played an instrumental role in promoting academic and research exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region over the years.
Some of the key topics featured at the conference include:
Catering, Dining and the Foodservice Industry
Education: Practices and Prospects
Human Resources Issues in Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Information Technology and its Influences
MICE and Event Tourism
Operational and Management Issues of Hotel Industry
Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Service Quality & Customer Relationship Management
Tourism Planning and Destination Marketing
Understanding Consumer Behavior
Other Important Issues of Hospitality & Tourism Industry
Many prominent international and local scholars and experts have been invited as the speakers of the Conference. They are (in alphabetical order):
Mr Perry Hobson, Director, The International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education
Mr Anthony Lau, Executive Director, The Hong Kong Tourism Board
Mr James Lu, Executive Director, Hong Kong Hotels Association
Mr Pradeep Kumar Nair, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Taylor’s University
Mr Stanley C. Yen, Chairman, The Landis Taipei Hotel
Ms Belinda Yeung, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Regal Hotels International
The organizing committee is grateful to the following sponsors for their support to the Conference:
MCI Hong Kong
Francesca Limited
Meetings and Exhibitions Hong Kong
Finessa Hong Kong Limited
Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific
The Mira Hong Kong
The Upper House
For more details of the Conference, please visit its official website at the link below.
Press Contacts:
Ms Pauline Ngan
Marketing Manager, School of Hotel and Tourism Management
Tel: +(852) 3400 2634
Ms Catherine Wong,
Publicity Committee Coordinator, 9th APacCHRIE Conference Organizing Committee
Tel: +(852) 3400 2467
