~The 2nd Asia-Pacific Contemporary Service Industry Development Summit Forum, jointly organized by the FITM City University of Macau and the Macau Adult Education Association, and was hosted by CITYU-SCS from May 20th to 23rd, 2014. The opening ceremony was held at the Exhibition and Entertainment Center of the Macau Tower at 17:00 on May 20th. Over two hundred scholars and experts from all over the world participated in the event. Guests present at the opening ceremony included Mr. Zhong R, Director of Education Department, LOCPG Macau SAR, Mr. Wu Z.L, Chairman of the Macau Foundation, Mrs. Guan L.M, Member of the IACM Management Committee, Mr. Liang L, Director General of the DSEJ, Professor Peng S.S, Vice Rector of CityU, Professor Aliana Leong, Vice Rector of CityU, Mr. Joao Leong, Mr. Madalena Santos, Training Director of Hotel and Tourism Department of the Republic of Angola, Mr. Sun X, Vice Chairman of Macau Worker Union, and principals and representatives from schools, entertainment groups and hotels of Macau.
Dr. Sanjay Nadkarni from the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management Dubai, Professor Hu Jingyan, Director of Trade Office, Economic Affairs Department of LOCPG Macau, and Professor Ma Yong, Dean of Tourism Development Research Institute of Hubei University delivered keynote speeches. Based on the criteria of innovation of research, academic standards, values and significance, clarity of expression, completeness and correctness, and the rationality of references, the Academic Committee selected exemplary papers. The authors of three outstanding papers presented by scholars and three outstanding papers by graduates received awards. Vice Rector of CityU, Professor Aliana Leong, said that, as a teaching and practice activity, the opening ceremony offered an opportunity for students to integrate knowledge with practice, to learn and experience social and banquet etiquettes through organizing such large activities, and to promote their comprehensive abilities as first-rate talents in local tourism and service industries in the future.
Revolving around the theme, “Innovation and Development of Contemporary Service Industry under New Conditions,” experts and scholars in the Service Industry from the Asia-Pacific region made in-depth studies in developing trends of the modern service industry. The Service Management Bachelor and Master programs of CityU, scheduled to be launched in September 2014, were significant topics at the forum. Discussions at the forum included diversified aspects of modern service industry development, including manufacture service, life service, knowledge service, and cultural creativity. The comprehensive discussions of accomplished scholars from different fields highly coordinated with the diversified development policies of Macau.
The forum, sponsored by the Macau Foundation and supported by the IACM and the DSEJ, attracted over two hundred participants from the Asia-Pacific region. About sixty papers of the nearly one hundred papers and abstracts submitted, discussing innovation and development of contemporary service industry in Asia-Pacific region, were addressed and presented during the two-day seminar. The forum constructed a cross-Asia-Pacific region platform with visions of international cooperation, which promotes the discussion of contemporary service industry development, broadens the horizons of Macau service industry and responds to its development demands.
Holding this forum in the context of the current complicated and changing global economy, the organizer expects the discussion of latest development trends and technologies of service industry would devote to the diversification and growth pattern transformation of Macau’s service industry. The future features of contemporary service industry development include low energy, high productivity and high added-value, and key demands of the industry are efficient use of resources, stimulation of sustainable economy development, creation of green GDP, and promotion of living standard of people which are also the focus of governments, industries and the academy. It is hoped that the forum would further strengthen the cooperation between Macau and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region and appeal to more scholars and experts so that they might contribute ideas and further efforts for contemporary service industry development in the Asia-Pacific region and diversified industry development of Macau.
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Opening Ceremony of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Contempor
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