By Dong Quanyue | Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management
The opening ceremony of the online experience camp of Chinese Plus Smart Hotel was held in the college on October 29th. It’s an online group program of 2023 Chinese Bridge organized by the Center for Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and hosted by the college.
Zhang Zongguo, vice president of the college, introduced our basic situation. As a double high-level construction institution, the college actively strengthens international exchanges and cooperation, give full play to the discipline advantages to serve Belt and Road initiative. We hope to promote the development of cross-border fusion through the Chinese language plus hotel management plus information technology, and provide a platform for the world's youth to learn Chinese language and vocational skills.
Su Bina, Director of International Chinese Education Institute of Royal Cambodian Academy of Sciences, said that the growing economic ties between China and Cambodia attract more Cambodian students to learn Chinese, and hoped that students would learn about China's digital technology, especially the development of smart hotels, and use Chinese as a medium to improve their technical skills through this program.
Zhao Deyin, Secretary of the General Party Branch of the School of Information Engineering and Technology, introduced the basic situation of the preliminary preparation and courses of the study camp.
Su Na Li and Qiong Ying, the representatives of Cambodian and Vietnamese students respectively, expressed that they were looking forward to the study of the Chinese plus Smart Hotel Camp, and that they would enhance their professional learning of smart hotels on the basis of improving their Chinese language application skills, and learn about the modernized China.
The camp lasted for 7 days and was conducted in both live and recorded formats, with more than 200 teachers and students from Cambodia and Vietnam experiencing online learning.
The courses are designed with application scenarios as the background, combining daily life scenarios and smart hotel terminology, integrating digital operation of hotels, traditional Chinese culinary culture, hotel dining etiquette as well as big data and artificial intelligence applications in smart hotels, etc., to comprehensively demonstrate the digital innovation of the traditional hospitality industry. The participants will appreciate the charm of Chinese culture and Chinese innovation so as to know more about China and be friendly to China.
