CityU students win championship at the 2024 Zhuhai-Macao-Hengqin Vocational Skills Competition and the “Shenhe Cup” Vocational Skills Competition

The “Hotel Reception” session of the 2024 Zhuhai-Macao-Hengqin Vocational Skills Competition and the “Shenhe Cup” Vocational Skills Competition was recently held at the Mong-Há Campus, Macao University of Tourism. Elites in the hotel service industry from Zhuhai, Macao and Hengqin competed on the same stage. Student Zhou Quan from the Faculty of International Tourism and Management (FITM) at City University of Macau (CityU) stood out and won the championship of the student group. Two students: Yang Ke and Zheng Kaiwen won outstanding awards.

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This competition was co-sponsored by the Zhuhai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Macao SAR Government Labour Affairs Bureau and the Livelihood Affairs Bureau of Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, attracting more than 40 hotel businesses and universities from Macao, Hengqin, and Zhuhai, nearly 120 contestants signed up to participate. The competition was designed in line with the WorldSkills Competition standards and combined the standards of “Macao Occupational Skills Recognition System” and “National Occupational Skill Level.”

Senior industry experts were invited to serve as chief referees, demonstrating international vision and professionalism. The competition was divided into two groups: staff and students, and consisted of three stages: the preliminaries required players to create hotel introduction videos to showcase creativity and professional understanding; the semi-finals involved hotel management theory challenges to test the players’ professional knowledge; the finals required role-playing of daily hotel operation, including handling emergencies, testing the contestants’ practical skills, service attitude and adaptability through comprehensive challenges.

Source: Faculty of International Tourism and Management