The Former General Manager of Cornell’s Statler Hotel Visited Yinxing

On the morning of September 30,2019, Mr. Richard Adie, General Manager of Cornell’s Statler Hotel and strategic consultant of Ginkgo Education Group, visited Yinxing and conducted a research on the practice teaching in Department ofHotel Management. Mr. Richard Adie was received by Dr. Fu Jing, VicePresident of Yinxing, who accompanied him throughout the visit. Mr. Richard Adie visited and inspected the hotel engineering laboratory, the bartending laboratory, the coffee and cooking laboratory. In Room 2505 of Chih Hsing Hall, he shared his valuable experience on what a hotel industry is, how to cultivate professional identity and sense of pride, and how to balance the relationship between life and work with students of DHM.At the same time, Mr. Richard Adie took Cornell's students as an example to encourage students to discover and make good use of their strengths, thinking and planning career paths from subtle work. Mr. Richard Adie spoke highly of students' language competencies and sense of professionalism and standardized management of the laboratory.

Mr. Richard Adie was sharing his experience with students

Later, Mr. Adie visited the Simple Café, which was mainly operated by students.He discussed with the management team and some teaching faculty of DHM on the deep integration between theoretical knowledge and practical skills.He acknowledged Yinxing's efforts on utilizing a cafe, a real work place as a practice teaching mode, where students could integrate classroom-teaching with best practices. This teaching mode allows students to engage in the whole process of operating a cafe, which is as significant as the teaching hotel in Nanxi campus. Mr. Adie acknowledged that the theoretical and practice courses of the hotel management major of Yinxing have been steadily advancing towards an international direction, and suggested that attention should be paid to a Ginkgo brand.

Dr. Fu Jing accompanied Mr. Adie to Simple Café 

Mr. Adie had a discussion with the management team and teachers of DHM.

Mr. Adie agreed with themechanism of practice teaching and international development strategy, fully acknowledgedthe good quality and attitudes of Yinxing’s students, and he is confident that they will grow into elites leading the development of the Chinese hotel industry in the near future.

Message from Mr. Richard Adie to all students of DTM