General activity group |
Specific activities
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Primary focal point
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Secondary focal point
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Information management and communication |
• Marketing and advertising initiatives.
• Promoting tourism education quality in higher education.
• Maintaining APETIT website.
• Proactive efforts in ensuring members' realized benefits from active networking initiatives.
• Creating a database system, which should have a pre-set format and include, among others, entrance requirement, facilities that can be offered and contact address. |
Institut Teknologi Tun Abdul Razak, Malaysia |
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Production of APETIT Newsletter |
• Producing APETIT Newsletter.
• Marketing the Network at, inter alia, international, regional and subregional fora, tourism fairs, etc. |
Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management, India |
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| Student and faculty/staff exchange and development |
• Bilateral exchange programmes.
• Forming a consortium, which interacts freely to bolster and boost exchange programmes efficiently and effectively.
• Functioning as a clearinghouse for student and faculty exchange, and student internship.
• Promoting the development of academic and administration staff.
• Promoting the exchange of internship programmes
• Promoting attachment programmes for faculty and administration staff. |
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong , China |
Hanoi Tourism College , Viet Nam |
| Education and training development |
• Coordinating efforts among members with respect to advisory services, training consultancy.
• Developing standards on tourism related curriculum.
• Developing APETIT-certified Professional Development Programme (e.g. Certified Training Professional or CTP). |
Institute For Tourism Studies, Macao, China |
Singapore Hotel and Tourism Education Centre , Singapore
Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, Sri Lanka |
| Research and development |
• Developing research capacity among member institutions.
• Creating and collating journals or publications from members to be shared within the association.
• Identifying opportunities and promoting joint research.
• Establishing discussion forum to focus on research and development. |
University of Queensland , Australia |
Victoria University , Australia |
| Sharing of expertise |
• Promoting institutional collaboration in providing instructional expertise in tourism studies and research available with APETIT and related agencies.
• Rendering cost-effective training and teaching for promoting professionalism in tourism and hospitality.
• Bringing out a Directory consisting of experts to be made available for members in network programmes. |
Iran Cultural Heritage and Tourism Services Organization, Islamic Republic of Iran |
Tourism authority of Thailand , Thailand |
| Membership benefits |
• Promoting links with tourism-related industries and obtaining grants and funding for training of trainers, educators and students.
• Serving as a clearing house, sourcing and connecting “buyers” and “sellers” of services. |
International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE) |
Shanghai Institute of Tourism, China |
| Student activities |
• Identify APETIT member institutions interested in facilitating student activities.
• Consult with interested APETIT members to identify potential student activities.
• Consult with focal point for information management and communication to assess the suitability and feasibility of a student area within the APETIT web site. |
University of the South Pacific , Fiji |
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology , New Zealand |
