ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION
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Three SHTM undergraduate students, Miss Karina Kung Cho-tsing of the BSc in Hotel Management programme and Miss Creamy Leung King-man and Miss Alice Chan Oi-ting of the BSc in Tourism Management programme, received Rudy Choy Educational Fund Scholarships. The scholarships were presented at the Young SKAL Day on 23 October 2013 at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel.
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Miss Queena Li Xiaohan and her team won the final prize in the creativity challenge advanced by Hongbo International Consulting LLC at the Young Hoteliers Summit Asia 2013 in Beijing, China on 25-27 October 2013.
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Miss Liu Rongrong, a final year student in the BSc(Hons) in Hotel Management programme, and two exchange students were selected as one of the five best teams from a field of 100 at the "Take Off! Student Challenge 2013" organised by Accor. They presented their proposal on the direction that the Novotel chain should take by 2020 to Accor Asia Pacific leaders in Singapore on 27 November 2013.
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Dr Mimi Li has successfully obtained an external competitive grant from the China National Tourism Administration. The title of the research project is "Social Network Distribution Pattern of Tourism Information in the Era of New Media". Dr Li is the Co-Principal Investigator of the project with Dr Han Shen from Fudan University.
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Hotel ICON, the SHTM's unique teaching and research hotel, was shortlisted for the coveted United Nations World Tourism Organisation Ulysses Award for Innovation in Enterprises during December. The award acknowledges the world's best commercially sustainable tourism initiatives. The presentation ceremony will take place at Fitur, an international tourism trade fair, in Madrid on January 22, 2014.
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Twinings, the globally renowned English beverage maker, extended its cooperation with the School's Food and Wine Academy by donating $50,000 to establish scholarships for SHTM students. The cheque handover ceremony took place in the Vinoteca Lab on 13 December 2013.
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