July 2016

Volume 17, Issue 3

Newsletter of School of Hotel & Tourism Management
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION

Professor Kaye Chon was bestowed the Founder's (Dr. Hai-sik Sohn) Award from the Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA) at the APTA 2016 Annual Conference in Beijing, China on 1-4 June. The award is the first of its kind by APTA to recognise a scholar or industry leader who has made significant lifetime contributions in advancing tourism research and/or industry practices in the Asia Pacific region. The award was created in the honour of Professor Hai-sik Sohn, the founder of APTA who also served as Chairman of the organisation from 1995 to 2006. Professor Chon was one of the founding members of APTA in 1995.

Dr Karin Weber and MSc student Ms Fiona, Kewei Hu won the Best Paper Award for their paper entitled "Meeting Planners' Experiences of Multiple Service Failures: Advancing a Dynamic Model of Organizational Justice" at the World Education Congress in Atlantic City, USA on 11-14 June 2016.

SHTM staff members had considerable success in obtaining major publicly funded competitive research grants this year:

The General Research Fund of the Research Grants Council (RGC) will provide funding for Professor Cathy Hsu's project entitled "Tourist Stereotypes: Triggers, Content, Model Building, and Resolutions" and Dr Honggen Xiao's project, "'Think Tank' as a Knowledge-based Strategy for Public Policy and Development: A Study of the China Tourism Academy".

The RGC's Early Career Scheme will fund Dr Suna Lee and Dr Sam Kim's project entitled "Developing a New CSR Performance Measure for the Hong Kong Hotel Industry: An Application of the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process", and Dr Vincent Tung and Professor Brian King's project, "Resident Preconceptions of Mainland Chinese Visitors in Hong Kong: Prospective Intervention Strategies".

Dr Pearl Lin, Professor Hanqin Qiu and Dr Kam Hung will receive funding from the Central Policy Unit's Public Policy Research Fund for their project entitled "Exploring the Effects of Airbnb on the Hong Kong Tourism Industry".

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