The HAFA/HTM Alumni Association Recognition event took place on October 24th at the Four Seasons Hotel. The annual event honours distinguished alumni for their accomplishments. This year, winners include; Darcy MacDonnell, B.Comm. '02, MA'10 winner of the HTM Alumni Entrepreneur Award; David Larone, B.Comm. '75 received the George D. Bedell Alumni Award and Becky Campbell, B.Comm. '09 was awarded the HTM Alumni Leader of Tomorrow Award. Congratulations all!
HTM's Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) instructor, Will Predhomme wins 1st place in the WOSA - Wines of South Africa Sommelier World Cup competition that took place on the weekend! Congratulations from the School Will!
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A Smart Serve Certification course, brought to you by HTMSA will take place on Tuesday, October 22nd, in MacKinnon 310 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. The cost is $35. Spaces are limited, please email htmsa@uoguelph.ca to register
On October 29th, HTMSA will be hosting their annual event, THINK PINK to support Breast Cancer Awareness. Enjoy a great evening of food, drinks and live music. All donations will support the Canadian Breast Cancer Association. See details below. Dress to impress in Pink!
UGSRP's annual forum was held last Thursday evening, which featured Jonathan Bloom, Author of 'American Wasteland', Robin Poirier of Ocean Wise and HTM's Bruce McAdams. Catch highlights in the Guelph Daily Mercury article.
On Thursday, October 3rd, Tim Hortons and the University of Guelph hosted the Sustainable Food Management Summit on campus.
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New research by University of Guelph focuses on animal welfare and sustainability in foodservice and retail industry supply chains.
Planet Bean, a sustainability-focused Guelph-based coffee organization, conducted a coffee tasting in Prof. Justin Taillon's HTM*1000: Introduction to Hospitality & Tourism course this afternoon. Slow Food, a professional association in the School of HTM, assisted with the entire event. The students learned the complexities of the coffee industry, from the supply chain to roasting.
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Students in Prof. Justin Taillon and Prof. Michael von Massow's HTM*4500: Hospitality Analytics course spent the past five days working with Planet Bean. They are working with ownership to improve sales and product offerings for the local coffee house. In October this group will earn CHIA certification (for hotel consulting) and put their newfound skills to work at Ports of Call Resort in Turks & Caicos, where they will create a marketing program for the new ownership and management on the Caribbean island destination.
World Tourism Day took place on Friday, September 27th and with this years theme of Water Conservation, students of the Hospitality and Tourism program had the opportunity to take a tour of the Nestlé Waters Canada bottling plant.
It was a huge success and it was wonderful to see what the company is doing to promote Water Conservation and Sustainability.
Thank you to those students that took part and to Nestlé for providing such an insightful tour.