PolyU School of Hotel and Tourism Management

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School of Hotel and Tourism Management

酒店及旅遊業管理學院
Motto	Leading Hospitality and Tourism
Type	Public
Established	1979
Dean	Kaye Chon
Academic staff	90
Students	Over 1,450
Location	Tsim Sha Tsui East , Kowloon , Hong Kong
Website	www.polyu.edu.hk/shtm

The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) is one of the schools at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). It was established in 1979 as the Department of Institutional Management and Catering Studies, then renamed as Department of Hotel and Tourism Management in 1992. The department was designated a school in October 2001, which became an independent autonomous academic unit within the university structure in July 2004.

The SHTM offers programmes from undergraduate degrees to doctoral degrees. In 2012, the SHTM received the McCool Breakthrough Award from the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (I-CHRIE) for its teaching and research hotel, Hotel ICON.^[1][2] The School is currently an Affiliate Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).