Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2001

hospitality-related school has put together in Hong Kong. An Attractive Internship Programme A n ambitious internship programme, to take place for three months every summer, is designed through negotiation w i t h members o f the advisory committee. There w i l l be close to 80 placements in top hospitality-related companies and hotels in Hong Kong (see Table 1). The sound connections with industry enables the school to design its own internship package to allow maximum exposure for the students. The placements began on 15th May. Partnership wi t h Prestigious Hotel School The school has also signed a f o r ma l student exchange agreement w i t h the School o f Ho t e l Adm i n i s t r a t i on at Cornell Un i v e r s i t y, a top hotel schoo l o f w o r l d r enown . Unde r the programme, four students o f the school w i l l go to Cornell for a year (or eight students for a semester), and the same number of students f r om Co r n e l l w i l l come to C U H K to acquire new perspectives and experiences at the school. An International Four-star Teaching Hotel By 2004, an international four-sta r teaching hotel w i l l stan d on the University campus to serve as the centre fo r hospitality education in Hong Kong and Asia . It w i l l have 700 rooms and 10,000 square metres of conference and training facilities including laboratories, classrooms, and computer centres; it w i l l also house an experimental cybe r cafe and a bookstore run by hospitality students, as well as space for music students to perform, literature students to write poems, and political science students to make their speeches. The project is made possible b y the New Wo r ld Development Company Ltd. which w i l l be responsible for funding Table 1 Companies and Hotels in the Internship Programme Hospitality Related Companies Ecolab Limited Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Hong Kong Tourist Association Horwath Asia Pacific Lufthansa SkyChef Airline Catering Chek Lap Kok Airport Ocean Park Corporation PriceWaterhouseCooper REZsolutions Star Cruises Hotels Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Grand Stanford Intercontinental Harbour Plaza Resort City Hong Kong Harbour Plaza North Point Harbour Plaza Hong Kong Hotel Miramar Hotel New Harbour Hotel Nikko Hong Kong Island Shangri-La Hong Kong JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong Kowloon Shangri-La New World Renaissance Hotel, Kowloon Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kowloon Renaissance Harbour View Hotel Repulse Bay Hotel (Managed by Peninsula Hotel Group) Royal Park Hotel Royal Plaza Hotel Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel &Towers Stanford Hillview Hotel Stanford Hotel The Excelsior Hong Kong The Kowloon Hotel The Metropole Hotel The Peninsula The Regent Hong Kong The Ritz-Carlton Hands joined at the press conference to announce the collaboration with the New World Group to build a four-star teaching hotel on CU campus. From left: Prof. Arthur K.C. Li, vice-chancellor of The Chinese University; Dr. Cheng Yu-tung, chairman of the New World Group; Dr. Lee Hon-chiu, chairman of the University Council; and Prof. David Dittman, dean of the School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University. C h i n e s e U n i v e r s i t y B u l l e t i n S p r i n g • S u m m e r 2 0 0 2