| Macao University of Tourism | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | Chinese: 澳門旅遊大學 Portuguese: Universidade de Turismo de Macau|italics=no | ||||||||||
| President: | Fanny Vong, Ph.D | ||||||||||
| Former Names: | Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (–2024) | ||||||||||
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The Macao University of Tourism (UTM), formerly the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM), is a public university in Macau, China. The university offers degrees in tourism, heritage and hospitality[1]
Unlike most colleges and universities, this institute requires all year one students wear uniform to attend all classes.
The institution was in 1995 as the Institute for Tourism Studies (; Portuguese: Instituto de Formação Turística).[2] Fanny Vong has been the president of the institution since 2001.[3]
The institution adopted its current designation of Macao University of Tourism on 1 April 2024.[4]
The Tourism College, one of the schools of the Institute for Tourism Studies, offers the following four-year bachelor's degree Programmes:
Besides accepting local and international students, it also receives exchange students for a one-semester study.
Tourism and Hotel School was initially established in 1982 and reported to the Macao Government Tourist Office. The school started with a small teaching body of 7 and offered 2 courses, namely, Reception and Housekeeping, at its temporary premises located next to the Pousada de Mong-Há. In the following years, more courses were added to the list such as culinary, languages and tour guiding.
In 1993, as a strategy to support tourism development, Macao government decided to create a higher education institute which would focus only on tourism education and training. A committee was established to carry out its preparation works, and 2 years later, in 1995, the Institute for Tourism Studies was born. At the same time, Tourism and Hotel School was integrated to the Institute.
The Campus of IFTM can be divided into the main campus and the Taipa campus.