October 2022
Volume 23, Issue 4
Newsletter of School of Hotel & Tourism Management
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION
With the generous support of SHTM alumna Ms Katie Shu, the "Katie Shu Sui Pui Charitable Trust Distinguished Lecture Series in Mainland China" has been established. The programme will support the SHTM's academic and knowledge exchange activities in mainland China for a period of 3 years. Commencing in 2023, a total of 10 lectures will be delivered to associated universities, institutions and hotel associations in mainland China over the 3-year period.
Miss Wong Ching Lam, Athena, a third-year student in the BSc(Hons) in Hotel Management, won the Women's Championship in the Racing Group Swimmers at the New World Harbour Race on 23 October 2022, in a time of 15 minutes and 11 seconds. She made the 1km journey across the harbour from Wan Chai to Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong's New World Harbour Race with over 1,200 other swimmers.
Chef Simone Nabbs was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Chef Herman Breithaupt Award by the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE), the world's largest organisation of hospitality and tourism educators. Since 1980, the ICHRIE has annually recognised a chef worldwide for his/her significant achievement and contribution to foodservice/culinary education. Chef Nabbs is the first recipient of this prestigious award from an institution in Asia Pacific.
Professor Sam Kim's co-authored article "Classification of Senior Tourists According to Personality Traits" was recognised by the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research as the APJTR Article of the Year 2021. One of his other research papers, entitled "Destination Loyalty Explained Through Place Attachment, Destination Familiarity and Destination Image", received the top cited article recognition (2020-2021) from the International Journal of Tourism Research.
SHTM students took second and third places in the 2022 ICHRIE Hotel Challenge by Knowledge Matters featuring the Hospitality Collection of Case Simulations. Ms Yi-ho Tam, a third-year student in the BSc(Hons) in Hotel Management, took second place. Third place went to Mr Mikul Manocha, a second-year student in the BSc(Hons) in Hotel Management, and Ms Wing-kei Wu, a second-year student in the BSc(Hons) in Tourism and Events Management.
SHTM staff members successfully obtained the SHTM Interdisciplinary Large Grant, which will provide funding for Dr Mimi Li's project "Enduring Effects of Tourism as an Alternative Intervention for People with Mental Disorders: A Neurological Approach"; Dr Neil Li's project "Towards Business Sustainability and Resilience: Risk Modelling and Survival Prediction of Tourism MSMEs based on Multi-source and Multimodal Big Data Fusion"; and Dr Dan Wang's project "Design Travel Live Streaming (TLS) as a Psychosocio-Technical System to Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviors".
SHTM faculty members were rewarded for their excellent performance in their fields.
  • Professor Kam Hung received an SHTM Teaching Excellence Award for her superb impact on teaching development and management.
  • Professor Sam Kim, who has authored and co-authored 134 refereed articles in high-impact journals, received an SHTM Research Excellence Award in recognition of his contribution to the enhancement of research excellence at the School.
  • The Food & Beverage Team, under team leader Ms Tak Kanchanawat and whose members include Mr Raymond Kwong, Mr Delap Lui, Mr Katsuto Sandifer, Chef Simone Nabbs, Ms Hayley Chan and Ms Brigid Yau, received an SHTM Service Excellence Award in recognition of their significant contribution to the enhancement of service excellence at the SHTM.
Dr Catherine Cheung, Dr Vincent Tung and D.HTM graduate Dr Joselyn Goopio received the Third Prize award for their paper "Maximizing Study Aboard Learning Outcomes Through Cultural Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence Development" at the Community of Practice on Conducting Learning Analytics to Inform Teaching and Learning (CoPlA) Meeting 2022.
SHTM staff members successfully obtained National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grants, which will provide funding for Dr Maxime Wang's project "The Double-Edged Sword of Error Management Culture: Investigating When and How Error Management Culture Promotes Employee Unethical Behaviors"; Dr Mimi Li's project "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Adolescents' Construction, Performance and Performativity of National Identity"; and Dr Anyu Liu's project "The Investigation of the Inherent Mechanism from Tourism Development to Common Prosperity Using a Micro-Macro Dual Perspective".
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