中大酒店及旅遊管理學院二十年 CUHK School of Hotel and Tourism Management – Two Decades of Development

香港作爲全球最受歡迎的旅遊勝地之一，酒店業亦因此蓬勃。有見及此，中大於1960年代已開辦酒店管理的校外進修課程。1998年，為配合本港˴中國˴亞洲乃至世界日益蓬勃的旅遊業發展，中大成立酒店管理學院，開辦酒店管理工商管理學士課程，培訓酒店及相關行業的專業人才。1999年學院錄取首批本科生五十人，收到逾兩千個入學申請；2000年更吸引逾四千人報讀。

學院的教育理論與實務並重，課程内容亦與時並進，例如：於2000年增設哲學碩士和哲學博士課程；2002年酒店管理學院改稱為酒店及旅遊管理學院，增強旅遊管理課程部分；近年亦加入房地產管理的相關課程。實務方面，學院成立之初便設酒店管理咨詢委員會，由業界高層擔任委員，推動課程發展；早期曾與美國康奈爾大學酒店管理學院結成策略聯盟夥伴，開展交換生計劃和教師研究合作。除此之外，每年學生都會被安排到各大酒店，例如半島酒店˴香格里拉酒店˴美國迪士尼等實習，讓學生充分了解和掌握行業的實際運作。矗立在大學港鐵站旁的凱悅酒店，是中大酒店及旅遊管理學院的教學酒店。這所酒店自2011年正式開幕以來，接待不少來自世界各地的遊客，亦為中大同學提供大量的實習機會。學院至今培育超過一千一百名畢業生，在業界樹立良好口碑。

Hong Kong is a popular tourist destination, and the hospitality industry has played a significant role to support the growth of the tourism. Since 1960s, CUHK has offered extramural programmes on hotel operation management. In view of the growing significance of the tourism industry to Hong Kong, mainland China, Asia and the world, the School of Hotel Management was established in 1998 to offer full-time bachelor’s degree programme. In 1999 the School had received over 2,000 applications and recruited its first class of 50 undergraduate students, and in the following year the numbers of application doubled and reached 4,000.

The business education of the School emphasizes both theory and practice, and the modules keep evolving along with the development of the hospitality industry. The School started to provide postgraduate programmes in 2000 and renamed the School of Hotel and Tourism Management in 2002. Recently the curriculum is further expanded to integrate the management of real estate and hospitality assets modules into the programmes. In addition, since its establishment, the School has set up a high-powered advisory committee which comprises leaders and senior executives of hotel chains to provide guidance and promote the programme. The School had also signed a formal student exchange and research collaboration agreement with the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. Each year, the internship programme enables students to gain practical industry experience from famous hotels and hospitality-related companies such as the Peninsula Hong Kong, Shangri-la Group, and Disneyland, US, etc. The Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, which is located next to the University Station, is the teaching hotel of CUHK School of Hotel and Tourism Management. Since its official opening in 2011 the hotel has received a huge amount of tourists from around the world, and at the same time provided excellent training opportunities for CUHK students. Today the School has nurtured over 1,100 competent graduates for the industry.

延伸閲讀 Further Readings

Hotel & Tourism Management, CUHK Business School

〈成立酒店管理學院︰培養亞洲酒店業精英〉，《中文大學校刊》二零零零年春‧夏
Hotel Management at CUHK”, CUHK Bulletin 2000 Spring/Summer

香港中文大學教學酒店開幕暨鄭裕彤樓命名

酒店管理學院課程，《中文大學概況1999-2000》（現有課程請按此）
The Curriculum of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management in CUHK Calendar 1999-2000 （Please click here for current curriculum）

香港中文大學教學酒店 -- 凱悅酒店及鄭裕彤樓
CUHK Teaching Hotel -- Hyatt Regency Hong Kong and Cheng Yu Tung Building

香港中文大學教學酒店開幕暨鄭裕彤樓命名典禮 (4/1/2011)
The Grand Opening of Teaching Hotel and Naming of Cheng Yu Tung Building of CUHK (4/1/2011)

香港中文大學教學酒店開幕暨鄭裕彤樓命名典禮 (4/1/2011) --主禮嘉賓參觀設備優良的示範廚房及品酒實驗室
The Grand Opening of Teaching Hotel and Naming of Cheng Yu Tung Building of CUHK (4/1/2011) – Officiating guests visit the state-of-the-art Demonstration Kitchen and Wine laboratory