IFT New Taipa campus “Forward Building”
IFT’s new Taipa campus will be in operation from 1 August, while its former campus, located at Estrada Coronel Nicolau de Mesquita No. 14, Edif. César Fortune AC/V1-V3, Taipa, Macao, will be suspended from 1 July. For any public queries, please feel welcome to contact IFT at 2856-1252. Last year, Macao SAR Government has granted IFT the former University of Macau Library, the Staff Quarter building, two laboratories, in addition to the East Asia Hall being granted earlier. The new premises enable IFT to offer a better and more spacious and interactive teaching and learning environment. More programmes and professional courses can be planned to respond to the needs of the industry and the changing industry environment. More local and international students and scholars can also be welcome to further enhance the Institute’s multi-cultural teaching, research and learning environment. New training facilities including a training hotel will be incorporated in the new campus for training and practice. All these serve the ultimate goal of enhancing tourism education and training in Macao, so as to develop competent industry professionals and leaders who will help realise Macao’s vision to become a World Centre for Tourism and Leisure. The former library building is located on a small hill, it is now named as “Forward Building”, meaning to look forward to a new prospect and fruitful future for IFT. Forward Building will be in operation from 1 August as a teaching building complex of IFT. Besides classrooms, there will be facilities like library, conference venues, training center, administrative and teaching staff offices, food and beverage venue and car park. In the new Taipa campus, the East Asia Hall, where the students had moved in at the year-end of 2015, will mainly serve the purpose as student hostel. For the former Staff Quarter building, it will be modelled after serviced apartments and act as a training hotel for students so as to provide more practical training opportunities to them. Established in 1995, the Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao (IFT) offers the most extensive selection of tourism and hospitality related bachelor degree programmes in Macao, and about twenty thousand participants attend its vocational and professional training courses annually. IFT collaborates with 97 universities and tourism organisations around the world, and builds strong links with 500 leading tourism and hospitality corporations to offer internship opportunities to its students. Being the first institution accredited by the UNWTO.TedQual Certification System for tourism education, IFT has now 7 bachelor degree programmes with the Certification. Currently, the Institute has the most number of bachelor degree programmes certified under the System of any tertiary education establishment worldwide. IFT has received the Medal of Merit in Tourism from the Macao SAR Government, and won twice the Gold Award in ‘Education and Training’ from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).