Posted on June 19, 2026 by Dong Quanyue|Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management
The School of Hospitality Management held the scholarship award ceremony for the Intercontinental Talent Class for the 2025–2026 academic year on June 16.
Senior executives from multiple InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) brands, including Holiday Inn Qingdao Central, Even Hotel Qingdao Tiedao Laoshan, and Crowne Plaza Qingdao Jinshui, as well as Diao Hongbin, Secretary of the college Party Committee, attended the event.
In his speech, Diao Hongbin reviewed the decade-long school-enterprise partnership with IHG. He noted that both sides have long focused on collaborative talent cultivation and have achieved exemplary results in building the IHG talent training college, cultivating dual-qualified teachers, and launching modern apprenticeship programs, providing a replicable model for industry-education integration in vocational education. Against the backdrop of digital transformation and high-quality upgrading of the hospitality industry, he emphasized that school-enterprise cooperation is crucial to filling the industry’s talent shortage. He encouraged students to strengthen professional skills, improve digital literacy, broaden industry vision, and grow into high-quality technical talents who can adapt to industrial development.
Wang Hailiang, General Manager of Holiday Inn Express Qingdao Central, stated that the 13-year in-depth cooperation has delivered a large number of outstanding talents who have become key backbones in IHG hotels. As the hotel industry enters a new era of refined operation and digital development, high-quality professional talents are in urgent demand. IHG will continue to optimize its talent training system, improve internship and practical training platforms, and build a full-cycle development system covering campus learning and career promotion. He urged students to consolidate professional foundations and pursue steady progress in their future careers.
Interactive professional activities were arranged at the ceremony. Students participated actively, demonstrating solid professional competence and positive spirits. Subsequently, the attending leaders presented certificates to ten outstanding students who won first, second and third-class scholarships.
The School of Hospitality Management will further implement the concept of industry-education integration. It will deepen cooperation with IHG in major construction, curriculum development and practical training, so as to precisely connect talent cultivation with industrial needs. Giving full play to the incentive role of scholarships, the college will guide students to pursue moral progress and professional excellence, integrate knowledge with practice, and continuously build a high-quality school-enterprise collaborative education brand to cultivate outstanding talents for the high-quality development of the hospitality industry.
