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Along with several faculty on campus, HFTM Professors Erna van Duren and Mike von Massow will be attending the Canadian Association of Food Studies conference in St. Catharines from May 24 - 27th.  The Conference theme is "Borders without Boundaries: Exploring Collaboration in Food Studies". 

Congratulations to first year HAFA Co-op student, Helen (Michellina) Martinez and third year HAFA Co-op student Michelle Chan who were both awarded a $2,000 Tourism Cares Scholarship.  These scholarships recognize "an exemplary representative of the future of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries".

Dean Julia Christensen Hughes and Professor Statia Elliot just returned from a Walking Workshop in Nepal, hosted by the Tourism Education Futures Initiative. Discussions, while trekking Sherpa paths, focused on social entrepreneurship and tourism development.

atGuelph Story
Written by Teresa Pitman

You’ve heard that the glaciers in Alaska are rapidly disappearing, or that the rainforest around the Amazon River will be destroyed over the next few decades. Do you want to see these sites before they’re gone?

atGuelph Story
Written by Teresa Pitman

The University of Guelph and the School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management are preparing to welcome approximately 60 international delegates to the eighth Tourism Education Futures Initiative Conference (TEFI8) from June 4 to 7. This year’s theme, “Transformational Learning: Activism, empowerment and political agency in tourism education” is in keeping with TEFI’s mission to push boundaries, think creatively and inform and support tourism educators and students to transform the world for the better.

Professors Bruce McAdams and Mike von Massow  share their expertise following the opening of Canada's first tip-free restaurant, Smoke 'N Water, in Parksville, British Columbia.

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The Bill Braithwaite MBA Distinguished Professorial Award is a new award, the first granted by the College of Business and Economics students to an instructor teaching in the MBA program. The award honours one of our most dedicated MBA Faculty and Advisor, Bill Braithwaite.   

Each year Prof. Taillon offers an event management certification through Cvent as a component of HTM*2070. For the first time Prof. Taillon offered this certification to all HFTM students, even if they were not enrolled in the course. This year nine students who were not enrolled in the course went above/beyond by taking and passing the exam for this professional designation.