The opening ceremony of the “IHG Academy” jointly organized by the Faculty of International Tourism and Management of the City University of Macau and the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) was held on CityU Taipa campus of City University of Macau to provide students with a quality training platform. The “IHG Academy” of the InterContinental Hotels Group is a well-known industry-university cooperation project in the area of international hotel management. The “IHG Academy” jointly offered with CityU is the first in Macau.
CityU Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei spoke at the opening ceremony and encouraged students to seize the opportunity, study hard and apply what they have learned. This training program has a team of strong and dedicated teachers. He said that as CityU strived to excel in humanities and new engineering programs and linked them closely with practical work, it jointly organized different types of training programs with a number of enterprises and groups and the cooperation with IHG was an example of excellent cooperation.
Mr Fred Wu, Director of Human Resources of Crowne Plaza Macau, thanked CityU for its support on behalf of InterContinental Hotels Group and hoped the two would work together to cultivate more high-quality professionals for the industry. He pointed out that IHG Academy was one of the world's first-class training programs and enabled its trainees to acquire business operations and life skills required for starting their careers.
Launched by the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2006, the IHG Academy is a well-known industry-university cooperation program in the field of international hotel management. It aims to cultivate talent needed for the sustainable development of the hotel industry. On the basis of the teaching of theories and professional courses of cooperating universities, IHG will offer additional modules of practical experience and latest industry information taught by the Group’s senior management personnel. At the same time, it will also provide students with internship opportunities during their studies at the University. The program has been expanded to nearly 100 countries and regions around the world. This program jointly provided with City University is the first “IHG Academy” in Macau.
The Faculty of International Tourism and Management at CityU attaches great importance to the development of cooperation with the industry and has been maintaining a sound university-enterprise cooperation and communication mechanism. The opening of the “IHG Academy” of the InterContinental Hotels Group has further raised the standards of the internationalization of the university's talent cultivation and promoted the alignment of the university’s efforts in talent cultivation with the industry’s strategy. This has great significance for enhancing the comprehensive competitiveness of students.
Also present at the opening ceremony were: Ms Cordelia Lei, Director of Human Resources of Holiday Inn Macau, Ms Zhang Ximin, Director of Human Resources of InterContinental Zhuhai, Ms Zeng Qianwen, Deputy Training Manager of Crowne Plaza Macau, Associate Professor Li Xi, Dr Shen Huawen and Dr Wang Xin, respectively, Executive Associate Dean, Doctor Program Coordinator and Bachelor Program Coordinator of the Faculty of International Tourism and Design at CityU.
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Source: Faculty of International Tourism and Design
CityU Reporter: Xu Zhibin, Shen Jie
