The Hospitality and Tourism Educators

President Deniz Kucukusta represented APacCHRIE at the ICHRIE Board of Directors Meeting held during the 2026 ICHRIE Global Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on 15-17 July 2026. The conference, hosted at Mandalay Bay and in collaboration with the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality at UNLV, was highly successful and brought together hospitality and tourism […]

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The first ever APacCHRIE Regional Programming @ 2021 International CHRIE Summer Conference was successfully completed at 9:00pm-12:00 midnight EST July 26, 2021  (9:00am-12:00noon Beijing/Hong Kong/Singapore Time, July 27 2021).

 

Part 1: Heart to Heart Talk by Professor Kaye Chon (Dean and Chair Professor, School of Hotel & Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Mr. Ho Kwon Ping (Founder of Banyan Tree)

Part 2: Panel Discussion on “The Future in Education and Research”

Speakers:
– Professor Cathy Hsu, Chair Professor, School of Hotel & Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

– Professor Perry Hobson, Professor of Tourism and Special Adviser on Tourism Education, Sunway University

– Ms. Margaret Heng, Chief Executive of SHATEC and Executive Director of Singapore Hotel Association

– Professor Peter Kim, Professor in Hospitality and Tourism, School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology

Moderator:
– Dr. Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong, Associate Professor in Integrated Resort and Tourism Management, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau

Introducing Regional Programming for the first time at the 2021 ICHRIE Conference! Special thank you to the APacCHRIE Federation for making this happen! Inclusivity is one of ICHRIE’s core values and accommodating ICHRIE members in opposite time zones is important. We hope everyone will join the program on Monday, July 26th, EST and Tuesday, July […]

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