澳門旅遊大學 Universidade de Turismo de Macau | |||||||
Former names | Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (–2024) | ||||||
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Type | Public | ||||||
Established | 1995 | ||||||
President | Fanny Vong, Ph.D | ||||||
Location | , | ||||||
Affiliations | GHMUA | ||||||
Website | www | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 澳門旅遊大學 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 澳门旅游大学 | ||||||
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The Macao University of Tourism (UTM), formerly the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM), is a public university in Macau, China. The university offers degrees in tourism, heritage and hospitality [1]
Unlike most colleges and universities, this institute requires all year one students wear uniform to attend all classes.
The institution was in 1995 as the Institute for Tourism Studies (Chinese :旅遊學院; Portuguese : Instituto de Formação Turística). [2] Fanny Vong has been the president of the institution since 2001. [3]
The institution adopted its current designation of Macao University of Tourism on 1 April 2024. [4]
The Tourism College, one of the schools of the Institute for Tourism Studies, offers the following four-year bachelor's degree Programmes:
Besides accepting local and international students, it also receives exchange students for a one-semester study.
Tourism and Hotel School was initially established in 1982 and reported to the Macao Government Tourist Office. The school started with a small teaching body of 7 and offered 2 courses, namely, Reception and Housekeeping, at its temporary premises located next to the Pousada de Mong-Há. In the following years, more courses were added to the list such as culinary, languages and tour guiding.
In 1993, as a strategy to support tourism development, Macao government decided to create a higher education institute which would focus only on tourism education and training. A committee was established to carry out its preparation works, and 2 years later, in 1995, the Institute for Tourism Studies was born. At the same time, Tourism and Hotel School was integrated to the Institute.
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