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The Virtual Reality (VR) Training for Laser Cutter Operation was developed as a supplementary training tool for the PolyU Library’s technical support staff to practice and become familiar with the operation of a laser cutter. The application simulates the environment, laser cutter model, essential operational procedures, and corresponding responses of our laser cutter in service as realistically as feasible. A computer with a simplified laser cutting software interface was also built to simulate the software operation. Interactions (primarily on/off) with all other peripheral equipment, such as the ventilation system, air compressor, and earmuffs, are triggered through button clicks in an on-screen menu. The application simulates the operational procedures and corresponding reactions of the real laser cutter as closely as necessary. New technical staff members who are trained but not yet proficient with laser cutting can practice safely in an immersive environment enabled by VR technology.
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- Laser beam cutting Makerspaces in libraries Virtual reality Virtual reality -- Library applications
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This video is made by Dr. Pearl Lin and Dr. Clare Fung's project, "Great Case of Marketing in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry." A special thanks to Bao Yanli, who provided information and insights for this video. This case discusses that to celebrate the 50th anniversary of China-Spain diplomatic relations and the anniversary of its hotels in China, Gran Meliá hotels launched a campaign focused on the "Mantón de Manila", a traditional Spanish shawl with Chinese cultural origins. The campaign leveraged the heritage and craftsmanship of both countries, featuring flamenco performances, Shu embroidery, and high-end experiences at Gran Meliá hotels in China. The integrated marketing effort generated significant media coverage and social media engagement, reinforcing Gran Meliá's position as a purveyor of Spanish luxury in the Chinese market.
本視頻由林博士和馮博士的專案「酒店和旅遊業行銷的傑出案例」製作。特別感謝包豔麗為本視頻提供信息和見解。本案例探討了為慶祝中西建交50周年及旗下酒店在華開業周年，美利亞酒店集團旗下Gran Meliá品牌推出以“Mantón de Manila”為主題的營銷活動。Mantón de Manila是一種源自中國文化的西班牙傳統披肩。該營銷活動充分利用了兩國的傳統和工藝，包括弗拉門戈表演、蜀繡在中國Gran Meliá酒店的高端體驗。整合行銷活動獲得了大量媒體報導和社交媒體參與，鞏固了Gran Meliá这一西班牙奢華品牌在中国市场的地位。
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
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- Hotels -- Marketing Cultural property Hospitality industry -- Marketing
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MOOC
Based on interviews with industry professionals and recruitment specialists, this course helps you create a compelling CV / résumé that will get your foot in the door. Be the last they have to read - Be the first they want to call!
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:- prepare your CV
- get your CV noticed
- find suitable referees
- use positive action verbs
- use HR buzzwords
- Keywords:
- Applications for positions Job hunting Résumés (Employment)
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- MOOC
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Once you have successfully grasped the foundation of interview success by completing our English@Work: Basic Job Interview Skills course, how you persuade others to believe that you are as good as you say you are is now the challenge. Our instructors have had a 100% success rate in getting interviews and landing a job, and we hope to share that experience with you.
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:- prepare precise and persuasive answers to challenging questions
- use verbal and non-verbal skills to impress the interviewers
- perform professionally during and after interviews
- Keywords:
- Job hunting Employment interviewing Interviewing
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Based on advice from accomplished professionals in the business, HR and academic field, we have created a course that helps you build a solid foundation to succeed in job interviews and get that ultimate call. This course will change the way you prepare for and perform in job interviews.
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:- achieve interview success in six steps
- find out how YOU can be an independent learner and become a life-long learner
- stand out from the crowd using four strategies
- avoid common mistakes
- highlight soft and hard skills using appropriate vocabulary and expressions
- structure impressive answers using four steps
- express opinions and delaying answers effectively
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- Job hunting Employment interviewing Interviewing
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University organized a seminar series focused on green deck development, specifically designed for FCE undergraduate students. The series offers opportunities to learn about the development of green decks, relevant research, and gain exposure to the practical aspects of the industry. This PDF contains the presentation material from Dr. Mark Hsu, covering the cost-benefit analysis of green deck development.
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- China -- Hong Kong Cost effectiveness City planning -- Environmental aspects Pollution prevention Urban renewal
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University hosted a seminar series focusing on green deck development, specifically designed for FCE undergraduate students. The series offers opportunities to learn about the development of green decks, relevant research, and gain exposure to the practical aspects of the industry. This PDF contains the presentation material from Prof. Eric Chui and Dr. William Chan, covering the survey on public support for the Green Deck Project.
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- Pollution prevention City planning -- Environmental aspects Urban renewal Public opinion China -- Hong Kong
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University organized a seminar series focused on the development of green decks. Specifically designed for FCE undergraduate students, the series offers a chance to delve into the research and practical aspects of the industry. This PDF contains the presentation material from Prof. Alex LUI, covering the project's inception and the introduction of the development process in the building industry.
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The course aims to enable students to master the sounds of Cantonese and conduct basic conservations in Cantonese. It is suitable for learners of the following 3 categories:
(1) People from Hong Kong who may be expatriates, international students, ethnic minorities;
(2) People from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) who may be expatriates;
(3) People from all over the world who may be heritage speakers of Cantonese, plan to study/work in Hong Kong/ the GBA, tourists… etc.
In fact, anyone who is interested in learning Cantonese are welcomed to join this course!
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- Chinese Language, Communication, and Foreign Language Learning
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- China -- Hong Kong Cantonese dialects
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- MOOC
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OER4AI features a collection of public resources on AI, with categorization of different AI topics. With this OER portal, teachers can use its teaching materials, while students can access it and attempt its exercises. We aim at:
• Providing materials for students to gain hands-on experience;
• Collecting the public resources on AI;
• Giving teachers access to this website through PolyU OER Portal.
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This CEO Report is about tapping into the psychological thought-processes of how great problem-solvers see, interpret and makes sense of being stuck with complexity and what they do (or fail to do) to progress. To uncover these underlying thinking patterns we administered a rigorous and systematic interview approach from clinical psychology called, Repertory Grid Technique (RGT). Our sample consists of fifty (50) seasoned CEOs /Executives spanning a wide range of industry sectors. Seven (7) inherent latent themes emerged from our analysis as to what are the core drivers (habits of mind) that help executives open up the alternatives whenever they find themselves stuck with complexity.
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- Management
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- Chief executive officers -- Psychology Problem solving
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This case study analyzes how Hotel Maurice France succeeded in the competitive luxury hotel market by partnering with the high-end skincare brand Valmont to provide personalized services. At the same time, the case also highlights the trend of expansion strategies and strong alliances in the luxury hotel industry.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Strategic alliances (Business)
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- Others
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This case study discusses how the hotel practice internal marketing strategies, which collaborated with Greentown Group to customize exclusive mooncake gift boxes and promote them to related high-end customers of Greentown. It successfully achieved the mooncake sales target and increased the hotel's revenue.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
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- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Mid-autumn Festival Festivals -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study analyzes how Disney Cruise leveraged its advantages and innovative marketing strategies to release creative videos that attracted widespread attention. As a result, Disney Cruise Line achieved a good performance with $1.6 billion in revenue and $400 million in net profit in the 2019.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Cruise lines -- Marketing Disney Cruise Line
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This case study discusses how Atour Light Hotel practiced brand concepts, YOL, new retail thinking frameworks, and social hotspots for marketing, successfully increasing the overall revenue of the hotel bar, opening up sales for mojito drinks, and also driving sales of other alcoholic beverages.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Bring (Marketing) Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Xi Bei Oat Noodle Village attracted many consumers by innovating their specialty products and turning Valentine's Day into their exclusive holiday, successfully creating a connection between the brand and consumers.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Valentine's Day Restaurants -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Airbnb showcased local recommendations from its community and hosts through a 48-hour challenge to create the most suitable accommodation and experience routes for young travelers. The campaign leveraged the personalized travel needs of Generation Z and laid the foundation for Airbnb's market leadership.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Bed breakfast accommodations -- Marketing Airbnb (Firm)
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Fantawild Theme Park utilized the short videos and fan effects of Tik Tok and successfully created a phenomenon-level event by implementing customized marketing, multi-channel entry, and influencer interaction strategies, thereby increasing its market share in the industry.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Bring (Marketing) Social media Internet marketing Amusement parks -- Marketing
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This case study discusses how Tonglu City successfully converted the popularity of a TV program into actual economic benefits while promoting the development of the local homestay industry and rural tourism.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Tourism -- Marketing China -- Hangzhou
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Huang Bao Che seized the critical opportunity of outbound tourism by creating innovative videos that established emotional connections with potential customers and ultimately led to order conversions. It highlights the importance of personalized services, creative videos, and emotional links in marketing strategies.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
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- Tourism -- Marketing Automobile leasing renting
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- Others
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This case study discusses the "Marriott Bonvoy" loyalty program, which offers members unique travel experiences. It has become the world's most famous hotel loyalty program, with over 133 million members, and has transitioned from a loyalty program focused on enhancing member loyalty to a travel platform.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Customer relations -- Management Hotels -- Marketing Customer loyalty
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- Others
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This case discusses the Westin Pazhou Hotel's launch of a diamond card promotion for unlimited buffet dining throughout the year at the Canton Fair, along with Alibaba KOLs promoting it on multiple online platforms. They also developed a facial recognition system, which generated over 2 million in revenue and vital market feedback, opening up new ideas for promoting hotel industry catering products.
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- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Food service -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Hyatt on Bund successfully marketed traditional Austrian culture by hosting "The BALL," attracting high-end consumers and participation from various consulates and improving the hotel's brand image and banquet sales. At the same time, the hotel also faces the challenge of maintaining the event's innovation and increasing profits.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Special events -- Management
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Wanda Realm Jinhua successfully increased the restaurant's popularity and revenue by upgrading the original Chinese restaurant to a Western-style buffet restaurant, transforming the dishes and optimizing the production process, and becoming a long-term promotion project for Wanda Group's F & B department.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Food service -- Marketing Restaurants -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Li Ziqi's brand successfully built a personal brand and transformed from short video content production to e-commerce marketing by choosing the direction of ancient-style food production and Chinese traditional craftsmanship for personalized products, precisely targeted marketing, and signing with MCN agencies. Li Ziqi has become an Eastern food and lifestyle expert and a promoter of traditional culture.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Bring (Marketing) Noodles -- China
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- Others
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This case discusses the Overseas Chinese Town Holdings Company (OCT) Cultural Tourism Festival, which aims to integrate culture and tourism. Through marketing strategies such as resource integration across regions and industries and employee participation in the promotion, the festival launches discounted products and moves and have achieved good results. At the same time, it also needs to explore local culture and continuously promote cultural inheritance through tourism.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Social media Internet marketing Amusement parks -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Hilton Hotels Group partnered with Xiamen Marathon by organizing the Hilton Running Team and providing runner packages to offer participants a comprehensive race-related experience, which increased Hilton's guest loyalty and the visibility of its Honors points auction platform.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study discusses how Xiang Ming Hotel Huangshan successfully reduced sales pressure and increased brand influence by attracting major clients through a nostalgic-themed event launched during Christmas.
- Subjects:
- Marketing and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Festivals -- Marketing Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing
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- Others
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This case study discusses how the Palace Museum successfully integrated traditional culture into contemporary craft production through creative cultural product design, public relations, and cross-border marketing strategies, thereby enhancing its products' artistic value and influence and forming a good reputation.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Museums -- Marketing Gu gong bo wu yuan (China)
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- Others
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This case study discusses how JW Marriott Hotel Shenzhen attracted more high-quality customers to purchase gym memberships through integrated marketing communication, resulting in a total revenue of approximately 120,000 RMB, accounting for 32% of the total income of the fitness center that year.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Physical fitness centers
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- Others
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This case discusses how the InterContinental One Thousand Island Lake Resort transformed unused office space into a children's playground using the popular IP character "Ali," attracting attention from families and self-driving tourists within the province and generating over 5 million in revenue, surpassing the same period last year by 30%. This successful promotion has effectively enhanced the hotel's brand image and income.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Target marketing Family vacations Hotels -- Marketing
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- Others
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This study explained how it combined RV travel and camping, popular overseas, to create a brand that focuses on RVs' unique and personalized experience. It also analyzes how to create a new concept of RV travel and its financial benefits.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Recreational vehicle camping Target marketing
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- Others
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This study discusses a new concept of co-branding between a hotel and a tea brand, which has given both parties a unique understanding of IP cooperation, providing differentiated and personalized services to customers.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Strategic alliances (Business) Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing
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- Others
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This study discusses a new concept of afternoon tea takeaway with a stylish box design - a calendar box and a Christmas bear developed by Conrad Hotels and its revenue outcomes.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Restaurant management
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- Others
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This study analyzes how Shangri-La Hotel worked on the live-streaming room through platform promotion, increased live-streaming popularity, and order conversion rate.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Internet marketing Live streaming
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- Others
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This study discussed a new hotel package, "Study+vocation," a marketing program of Shanghai Pudong Mandarin Oriental Hotel during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. It takes the stress out of families with working parents and provides a comfortable and reliable learning environment.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Hotels -- Pet accommodations Family vacations Target marketing
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- Others
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This study discussed a new hotel package, "Study+vocation," a marketing program of Shanghai Pudong Mandarin Oriental Hotel during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. It takes the stress out of families with working parents and provides a comfortable and reliable learning environment.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Target marketing
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- Others
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This study analyzes how Disney designed a series of exciting new programs and themed offerings during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. As a result, more visitors were willing to pay for the experience, and it achieved Disney's goal of increasing revenue.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- China -- Hong Kong Amusement parks -- Marketing
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- Others
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This study discussed Marriott BONVOY Wedding marketing progress and explained how to raise potential clients' enthusiasm on Chinese Valentine's Day. By providing one-stop wedding services, Marriott successfully inspires customers to influence, recommend and develop other users around them, thus better breaking through the market barriers.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Weddings Hospitality industry -- Marketing Special events -- Management Target marketing Hotels -- Marketing
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- Others
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Keep and Westin co-brands create a healthy lifestyle scenario for business travelers. Integrating the brand, industry, and user levels better serves and influences high-end consumers, passes on freedom of movement and self-discipline to businesses and travelers, and brings a new brand image to both parties.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Strategic alliances (Business) Hospitality industry -- Marketing Travel -- Health aspects Hotels -- Marketing Target marketing
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- Others
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By offering family guest activities that blend the Rabbit King theme with the "Shangri-La Happy Growth Program," this study works on how Jinan Shangri-La hotel integrates local cultural emblems to give families a unique hotel stay.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Family vacations Target marketing
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- Others
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This study focuses on tourism destination development. It takes the example of TikTok KOL and explains why local governments should consider and address how to promote tourism destinations' development further.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- China--Sichuan Sheng Tourism -- Marketing Internet marketing Social media
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- Others
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This study uses Want Want as an example to show how co-branding helps companies increase their reputations. Influenced by social media and online popularity, the internet provides an enormous and low-cost avenue for firms to communicate with their fans, stabilizing consumer groups and improving network popularity.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Food industry trade -- Marketing Strategic alliances (Business) Internet marketing Social media
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- Others
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Using a technology-based business model, Macau Venetian cooperated with Ctrip's chairman, dressed, and previewed The Londoner Macau launch at Sands Macau Resort. This study of the method indicates that live streams could stimulate potential customers' interest and encourage them to attend.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Live streaming Tourism -- Marketing Hospitality industry -- Marketing
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- Others
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This study takes Klook, a Hong Kong-based technological online travel company, as a successful example of how to use a Mobile-first strategy and Celebrity Charm Strategy to provide customers with a unique and comprehensive travel products and services platform.
- Subjects:
- Marketing and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Travel -- Computer network resources Tourism -- Marketing Marketing
- Resource Type:
- Video
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From the perspective of the 7 Ps as the marketing strategy, this study indicates how 'LinaBell,' the new Disney Ip, benefited from the branding effect, which leads to significant attention from loyal customers before the sale.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- China -- Shanghai Bring (Marketing) Amusement parks -- Marketing Internet marketing Social media
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- Others
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The notion of expertise is integral to all forms of institutional and professional practice in many domains – in education, healthcare, social welfare, law, journalism, banking, information technology, marketing, translating and interpreting services etc. It is a concept addressed by scholars across many disciplines – cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, language/communication studies, among others. There are, however, enduring problems of definition, description and measurement of expertise. Some scholars draw attention to the ongoing ‘crisis in expertise’ and others pronounce the ‘death of expertise’ in contemporary society.
More humbly, I begin with a characterisation of professional expertise very broadly to include scientific, experiential, technological, organisational, legal, ethical and communicative knowledge. This then leads me to the notion of ‘distributed expertise’, which extends beyond the individual remit and the conventional lay-expert divide. For instance, in the healthcare domain, a significant development afforded by internet-based technology is the increased level of patients’ e-health literacy and, consequently, democratisation of expertise. This amounts not only to accessing health information digitally, but also the phenomenon of patients ‘doctoring’ themselves in ‘the now of its presence’, i.e., ‘expert patients’ becoming instrumental in self-diagnosis and even self-treatment.
Additionally, ‘distributed expertise’ is also constitutive of ‘expert systems’, e.g., diagnostic and interventionist technologies as well as decision aids mediated by algorithms and templates. This is what I refer to as the technologization of expertise. I suggest that there is overreliance on ‘expert systems’ by both experts and lay persons in everyday decision making. Access to and use of ‘expert systems’ in optimal ways inevitably necessitates a reconfiguration of the very conditions and consequences of professional expertise.
Event Date: 25/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Srikant Sarangi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
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- Information technology -- Social aspects Democratization Expertise
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- Video
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DM Master is a gamification-based education Application. This is an interactive education tool to support you to learn more about Type 2 diabetes from a health professional perspective. The game has three levels: diagnosis of diabetes, its signs and symptoms, and common complications. You will also explore the goals and strategies of diabetes management, including healthy lifestyles and medications.
In this e-GAME environment, you will earn your virtual coins to enjoy digital shopping and exercises. The scoreboard shows your number of coins (your scores) and your ranking. Set a new score record and get your name on top of the ranking! You can also see the best rated food menu of the day in the ranking list. The DM Master Content is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for the professional judgment of a health care professional in diagnosing and treating patients.
- Course related:
- SN3490 Nursing Therapeutics 1 and 53455 Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
- Subjects:
- Nursing and Health Care, Education and Promotion
- Keywords:
- Diabetics
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- Others
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Professor Yigong Shi will reflect on the challenges in global higher education, based on his 37 years of learning, scientific research, and teaching experience in academia. He will present Westlake University's educational reforms in university operations, governance, talent recruitment, student development, research and academic evaluation, and interdisciplinary studies, which altogether provide new opportunities for future-oriented higher education.
Event date: 06/12/2022
Speaker: Prof. Yigong Shi
Moderator: Prof. Qingyan Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
- Keywords:
- Educational change China Education Higher
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Before the advent of computers around 1950, optimization centered either on small-dimensional problems solved by looking at zeroes of first derivatives and signs of second derivatives, or on infinite-dimensional problems about curves and surfaces. In both cases, "variations" were employed to understand how a local solution might be characterized. Computers changed the picture by opening the possibility of solving large-scale problems involving inequalities, instead of only equations. Inequalities had to be recognized as important because the decisions to be optimized were constrained by the need to respect many upper or lower bounds on their feasibility. A new kind of mathematical analysis, beyond traditional calculus, had to be developed to address these needs. It built first on appealing to the convexity of sets and functions, but went on to amazingly broad and successful concepts of variational geometry, subgradients, subderivatives, and variational convergence beyond just that. This talk will explain these revolutionary developments and why there were essential.
Event date: 1/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Terry Rockafellar (University of Washington)
Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Computer science -- Mathematics Mathematical optimization Convex sets Convex functions
- Resource Type:
- Video