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HSMAI South Florida Announces 2024 Recipients of the Dr. Peter Ricci Scholarship
HSMAI South Florida | October 15, 2024
Fort Lauderdale, FL – October 15, 2024 – The South Florida chapter of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is proud to announce the 2024 recipients of the prestigious Dr. Peter Ricci Scholarship. This scholarship, awarded annually, supports exceptional students pursuing degrees in hospitality management and related fields at colleges and universities in South Florida. This year’s scholarship recipients are: Maria Martinez – Florida International University (FIU) Victoria Nicora – Florida International University (FIU) Giuseppe Barioli – Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Joyce Kessl...
Best Career Advice: FIU Founder and Hospitality Industry Legend Tells It Like It Is
FIU's Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management | October 2, 2024
50 years later, Rocco M. Angelo of FIU’s Chaplin School still mentors students and stays connected with the hospitality leaders he has taught over the decades. Learn his tips for professional success. Five decades ago, FIU Hospitality Professor Emeritus and current Associate Dean of Alumni Relations Rocco M. Angelo joined a small program that has morphed into what is today the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management on the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University (FIU). This semester, the hospitality pioneer marks his 50th anniversary at FIU. At 93, he is the oldest faculty member still coming to work, and ...
Miami-Dade County’s Hospitality Industry Recovering but Facing More Than $3 Billion in Losses This Year
Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management | October 22, 2020
MIAMI (Oct. 21, 2020) – Miami-Dade County hotel and restaurants – the two largest hospitality industries in South Florida – have taken a $3.36 billion dollar hit from COVID-19, according to a new study. The study released today by Florida International University's FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, in collaboration with the Greater Miami Convention and Visitor's Bureau (GMCVB), shows that from the time mandatory COVID-19-related business closures took effect in March until the end of August, the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic – including revenue loss, supply chain and business expenditures, op...
Restaurant Owners and Operators Are Invited to Take Free COVID-19 Restaurant Safety Training Course
The City of Miami | September 11, 2020
MIAMI (Sept. 11, 2020) – The City of Miami, Miami's Downtown Development Authority (DDA), and the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Florida International University (FIU) are encouraging local restaurant owners to sign up for a new one-hour health and safety course. Created by culinary educators and professionals, the course focuses on reducing and preventing the spread of COVID-19 through health and safety training and is free and open to all restaurant owners and operators. The COVID-19 Restaurant Safety and Compliance Course offers a one-hour lecture and quiz based on safety protocols and guidelines from the M...
Top Dining-Out Trends for a Post-Pandemic Society
FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management | June 3, 2020
MIAMI, FL. – June 3, 2020 … Florida International University’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management projects five dining-out trends affecting restaurants, bars and consumers that are emerging in a post-pandemic world. The trends were presented by Michael Cheng, dean of the Chaplin School--one of the top 50 hospitality schools in the world, and the culinary and academic professional who created the world’s only curriculum blending the Culinary Arts with Food Science, Culinology® “The abruptness of COVID-19 has caused many of us in the food and beverage industry to stop in our tracks and pause for a minute,”...
FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management Co-Hosts Global Impact Hospitality Series to Provide Industry Insights Post-Pandem
Impact Hospitality | May 15, 2020
MIAMI (May 15, 2020) – FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management and Macrovision Network of Singapore will co-host a series of four global forums to take place live and online with experts in three time zones. The series aims to provide creative and effective solutions to hospitality and tourism professionals around the world as they manage economic and other challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The forums will take place on May 18, May 27, June 1 and June 8, at 9 p.m. EST in Miami. The Global Impact Hospitality series is free and open to the public although participants can opt to make a $10 donat...
From Chaos to Coping, FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management Professor Lisa Cain Offers Helpful Advice on the Challenges of Worki
Lisa Cain | April 23, 2020
MIAMI, FL. – April 2020 … Apart, isolated, inaccessible and distant – these definitions of the word remote have taken on new meaning to the millions of professionals now working from quarantined homes around the globe. The COVID-19 virus has changed the working landscape, perhaps forever. Workers are cut off from their corporate support teams, colleagues and clients. Many are faced with new responsibilities of homeschooling and managing children. All are trying to function in a time of chaos, fear, financial uncertainty and profound frustration. The hospitality industry has been especially hard hit and the Chaplin School of Hosp...
FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management and South Beach Wine & Food Festival® Give Back to South Florida’s Foo
FIU's Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management | March 30, 2020
MIAMI (March 2020) – FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management is helping to put money into the hands of cooks, servers, dishwashers and all team members at restaurants and bars through a new partnership with the South Beach Wine & Food Festival®. The SOBEWFF® & FIU Chaplin School Hospitality Industry Relief Fund will provide immediate financial support to independently owned and operated restaurants and bars impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Many of these family operated establishments have hired FIU student interns and even given graduates their first jo...
