Teaching innovation in hospitality and tourism education

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Staged over the first two days of this month, the Times Higher Education Innovation & Impact Summit brought together leading academics and influential figures from the spheres of business and government from around the world.

Over the course of presentations, interviews, debates, discussions and networking events, delegates helped define the ways in which higher education institutions can promote the type of innovation that has the power to change society for the better.

It was appropriate, therefore, that The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), in its 80th anniversary year and with its impressive track record of doing work that tackles “real world” problems, hosted the Summit.

The day before the official start of the programme, PolyU even got an opportunity to showcase the ways in which its researchers and innovators are continuously pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. A series of pre-Summit workshops highlighted PolyU’s endeavours in four areas, including Space, aviation and railway; Sustainable Urban Development; Human-centered innovation; and Hospitality.