Gala Dinner Awards Report
This year EuroCHRIE 2014 was held in Dubai at The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management where over 250 delegates from over 50 countries attended. The culmination of the conference was the Awards dinner that was hosted at the Jumeriah Beach Hotel next the Burj Al Arab. Updates from the conference and photographs can be found here
There were a number of awards presented during the evening to honour EuroCHRIE colleagues and organisations. The proceedings were opened by Richard Ginioux – Chair of the Awards Committee. The 2014 Award winners were as follows:
The President’s Award is the highest individual recognition a member of EuroCHRIE may receive. It is presented to a EuroCHRIE member in recognition of the individual's lifetime contributions and outstanding service both to hospitality and tourism education and the EuroCHRIE Federation. For the first time this award was being sponsored by REDGlobal
This year the 2014 EuroCHRIE Presidents Award went to Herve Fournier
Herve has also been a very active member of EuroCHRIE for almost 15 years. He served on the Board of Directors of EuroCHRIE between 2001 and 2013, for many years as the Treasurer. He served as Vice President, President and Immediate Past President between 2002 and 2004. He also served as a member of the ICHRIE Finance Committee for 10 years. He has attended and presented papers at EuroCHRIE, ICHRIE and APAC Conferences. Throughout this time, Herve added a good deal to the ‘social fabric’ of EuroCHRIE, ensuring all who attended the conferences were welcomed and that a good time was had by all, especially on his pre or post conference outings.
Following a career in the food and beverage industry, in the USA and Switzerland, Herve began his academic career as a Food Service Lecturer. Throughout his 22 years in academia, Herve undertook many roles predominantly within the Cesar Ritz Colleges.
As Vice President and School Director, Herve was responsible for 2 campuses with 500 students and 135 staff members. He also led the Cesar Ritz team of staff and students who operated the House of Switzerland, the official restaurant of the Swiss Olympic delegation at three Olympic Games; Athens, Torino and Beijing, and a team of students who catered for the 2005 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Monthey/Portes-du-Soleil. During that time, Herve also managed to successfully complete an MSc in International Hotel Management at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK.
Despite leaving academia, Herve has continued to be an active member of EuroCHRIE, attending conferences, Board meetings and continually supported, Susan his wife, during her Presidency in International CHRIE. Herve’s advice and wise counsel is always welcomed.
Peter Stark - President of REDGlobal and Jan Willem Meijerhof - President of EuroCHRIE presented the 2014 EuroCHRIE Presidents Award to Herve Fournier.
The Nestle Pro Gastronomia Award is sponsored by Nestle Pro Gastronomia Foundation and honours a professional who has demonstrated excellence in training, education and development work in the hospitality industry.
This year the Nestle Pro Gastronomia Award went to Steve Hood.
Steve grew up in the Baltimore/Washington area, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, and now lives in Nashville with his wife and four children. In 2013, he was named an honorary faculty member at the University of Delaware.
This true gentleman has been an active member of our EuroCHRIE Federation actively organising workshops for members and the industry in Europe and in many of our developing nation countries.
Steve is Senior Vice President of Research for STR (Smith Travel Research, Inc). He has been with STR for over 18 years and played a major role in the historical launch of programs that incorporated daily, group/transient, and international data. He is currently responsible for research-related activities at STR, while helping to manage STR’s relationships with several major organizations.
Steve also serves as the Founding Director of the SHARE Center, STR’s outreach to universities around the world. He represents STR at national and international lodging and tourism conferences. Steve currently serves on several advisory boards for industry and academia and in 2012, he was recognized by ICHRIE with the Industry Recognition Award for demonstrated commitment to advance hospitality and tourism education.
Christian Perrette – Executive Director Fondation Nestle Pro Gastronomia and Jan Willem Meijerhof - President of EuroCHRIE presented the 2014 Nestle Pro Gastronomia Award to Steve Hood.
The Laureate Hospitality Achievement Award is sponsored by Laureate Hospitality Education, honours an educator or trainer for outstanding achievement in contributing innovative ideas, methods or programs that have advanced teaching, learning or practice in the field of hospitality education or training.
The Laureate Hospitality Achievement Award went to Stephanie Jameson Teacher Fellow at Leeds Beckett University in the UK – Unfortunately Stephanie was unable to be at the conference.
Stephanie is a Principal Lecturer for Academic Integrity at Leeds Beckett University. She was the first ‘Academic Conduct Officer’ at the University and led her Faculty in designing processes and procedures to prevent and detect academic misconduct.
She piloted the Leeds Mets Unfair Practice Board and supported the implementation of a new university tariff on academic misconduct. She chaired the working party which revised the ‘Leeds Met Little Book of Plagiarism’. Stephanie has recently been made Chair of the newly formed Academic Integrity Group and is a University Teacher Fellow, based on her work on promoting academic integrity in her University.
She has won a Teaching Quality Enhancement bid to produce two DVDs on plagiarism financially supported by the Higher Education Academy and another bid for a ‘Curriculum Innovation’ project which has resulted in an open learning resource to help students to reference properly to avoid plagiarism.
She has presented papers on academic integrity at the Teaching and Learning Forum at Edith Cowan University in Australia and at the 6th International Integrity and Plagiarism conference organised by Turnitin/iParadigms.
Jan Willem Meijerhof - President of EuroCHRIE presented the award to Maureen Brookes who accepted the 2014 Laureate Hospitality Achievement Award on behalf Stephanie Jameson from Leeds Becketts University, England
The Institute of Hospitality Research Award is sponsored by the Institute of Hospitality and is given to a superior research publication submitted for the EuroCHRIE annual conference on a topic relevant to the field of hospitality or tourism management by an International CHRIE Member or members.
The Scientific Committee in Dubai and Elizabeth Ineson, EuroCHRIE Director of Research, selected 3 papers to be considered by the Institute of Hospitality for this award – they were:
1. The Role of Knowledge Exposure and Supreme Wine Attributes in Genetically Modified Wine Consumption - authors
- Lu Lu, Washington State University
- Imran Rahman, Auburn University
- Christina Chi, Washington State University
2. The Employer Perspective of Sustainability: Implications for Hospitality Education - authors
- Alisha Ali, Sheffield Hallam University
- Hilary Murphy, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
- Sanjay Nadkarni, The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management
3. Acceptance of GPS-based Augmented Reality Tourism Applications - authors
- Timothy Jung, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
- M. Claudia Leue. Research Assistant, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Mincheol Kim, Professor, Jeju National University
Maria Lockwood from the Institute of Hospitality announced the recipients of this year’s best paper that went to:
- Alisha Ali, Sheffield Hallam University
- Hilary Murphy, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
- Sanjay Nadkarni, The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management
For their paper titled
“The Employer Perspective of Sustainability: Implications for Hospitality Education”
Maria Lockwood (FIH) from the Institute of Hospitality and Kevin Nield (FIH) – Vice President of EuroCHRIE presented the Institute of Hospitality Research Award to Alisha Ali (MIH) from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK on behalf of her co authors Hilary Murphy and Sanjay Nadkami
The EuroCHRIE Regional Industry Award is sponsored by EuroCHRIE and recognizes an outstanding regional industry or organization for demonstrated commitment and service to the hospitality and tourism industry.
This year the EuroCHRIE Regional Industry Award goes to Dubai Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (DTCM)
The potential of the tourism sector to stimulate economic and social development thereby transforming economies has been internationally acknowledged. Since its inception, DTCM has played a pivotal role in promoting Dubai and growing the economic contribution of tourism to the Emirate
With its numerous initiatives in promoting Dubai as a tourist destination, the DTCM has done exceptionally well and tourism numbers have been on the rise for the past few years. Occupancy rates in hotels are consistently above 80% and passenger arrival numbers to Dubai International airport have increased substantially, overtaking London Heathrow in 2014. (Dubai handled 29.6 million passengers while London Heathrow handled 28.47 passengers in the first 5 months of 2014). The winning of the EXPO2020 bid is also a credit to the efforts of the DTCM in attracting major exhibitions to Dubai and the UAE.
Ron Hilvert – Managing Director of The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management and Kevin Nield – Vice President of EuroCHRIE presented the 2014 EuroCHRIE Regional Industry Award to Dubai Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing. Yosuf Lootah accepted the award on behalf of DTCM
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The EuroCHRIE International Industry Award is sponsored by EuroCHRIE and recognizes an outstanding international industry or organization for demonstrated commitment and service to the hospitality and tourism industry and this year the award went to Hospitality Connection
HOSCO (Hospitality Connection) is rapidly positioning itself as the leading meeting point for students, alumni, schools and employers of our industry. HOSCO offers the ideal platform to optimize both employers’ recruitment of top talents, schools’ placement efforts in regards to internships and jobs, as well as students and alumni job search and networking ambitions.
Over 13’000 students and alumni, 800 employers and 57 schools have joined HOSCO since the launch in 2011 and the growth is exponential.
Richard Ginioux – Immediate Past President of EuroCHRIE and Kevin Nield – Vice President of EuroCHRIE presented the 2014 EuroCHRIE International Industry Award to Hospitality Connection – HOSCO. Olivier Bracard, Co-Founder and CEO of HOSCO accepted the award.
John Fong, Conference Chair acknowledged all of the sponsors for their support of EuroCHRIE Dubai 2014 and presented them with certificates of thanks. John also thanked his team for a conference well done!
The final presentation of the evening was for Dr. John Fong to pass EuroCHRIE Dubai 2014 to EuroCHRIE Manchester 2015. Dr. Steven Rhoden - Conference Chair accepted the award and invited delegates to join his team at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England from 15th-17th October 2015.
