PolyU Scholar Honoured with McCool Breakthrough Award for Advancing Hospitality and Tourism Education

August 14, 2017

Professor Kaye Chon, Dean, Chair Professor of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Walter Kwok Foundation Professor in International Hospitality Management, was bestowed the 2017 McCool Breakthrough Award by the International Council of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (I-CHRIE), the world's largest organisation of hospitality and tourism educators, for founding the Graduate Education and Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism. Professor Chon received the award at the Annual I-CHRIE Summer Conference and Marketplace in Baltimore, Mary...