"UTM Event Contest 2025" was successfully held

"UTM Event Contest 2025" was successfully held on Friday, 11 April 2025 at the Grand Hall of the Forward Building in UTM Taipa Campus. The UTM Event Contest was organised and hosted by the Faculty of Innovative Hospitality Management – Tourism Event Management and co-organised by the UTM Business Club.

The UTM Event Contest primarily aims to highlight the awareness of events in the different sectors of the economy and cultivate students' creativity in events. It further aims to encourage students to share their ideas in an open and supportive environment. Not only is this in line with the Macao's "1+4" Economic Diversification Strategy, the competition also affirms UTM's efforts in capacity building and strengthening our role as a hub for event education. In the future, the "UTM Event Contest" welcomes other universities even beyond Macao in the region, making this the contest that showcases tomorrow's talents in events as well as an incubation centre for fresh ideas from young people.

This year, the contest calls for proposals for event ideas to be held in Macao and the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, with a requirement to incorporate creative elements and commercial viability while considering the feasibility and the significance of the event to Macao. After preselection by the organising committee, 10 teams were invited to pitch their ideas at the UTM Event Contest. A panel of professional judges consisted of UTM alumni and faculty members from the Tourism Event Management programme evaluated the submissions. It is with great pleasure we announce the following winners:

Results of the “UTM Event Contest 2025”

Award

Event Name

Winners & Studying Programs

Champion

"MetaHeritage Nexus: Global Summit on Digital Twin Innovation & Metaverse Ecosystem for Cultural Legacy"

HUI KAIQI (Master of Philosophy in International Hospitality and Tourism Management). SHAN WEIYI (Master of Science in International Hospitality Management). LUO YIDAN (Bachelor of Science in Hotel Management).

First Runner-up

「秘境江湖」

MAI XINTONG (Bachelor of Science in Tourism Event Management). LEUNG MAN KI (Bachelor of Science in Tourism Event Management).

Second Runner-up

「大「衫」巴-試裝「素」」

SHI NGA NGA (Bachelor of Science in Tourism Business Management). LO HIU CHING (Bachelor of Science in Tourism Event Management). NG CHENG HEI (Bachelor of Science in Tourism Event Management).

The Faculty of Innovative Hospitality Management offers Bachelor and Master degree programmes in the field of events management in either English or Chinese. For more information, please visit our admissions page. The Faculty continues to advance its status as an education hub for events management, particularly in the region. In addition to delivering its internationally-recognised degree programmes and engaging in latest academic research, as well as organising students activities and competitions to cultivate future talents, the Faculty also organises regional and international conferences to promote industry-education collaborations.

The 7th International Conference on Events (ICE2025) - Making Waves in Asia: Exploring New Frontiers in Festivals and Events is an international conference co-organised and led by UTM, to be held in Beijing on 17-19 September 2025 (click here for more info).

The 2nd Research Symposium on Event Studies organised by UTM and co-organised by the School of Tourism Management at the Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), supported by the Event Management Journal (China Region), will be held on 24 June 2025. More information to be announced soon.


For Enquiries, please kindly contact:

Dr Ubaldino Sequeira Couto
Coordinator, Tourism Event Management programme
Macao University of Tourism
Tel: (853) 8598 2119
Email: dino@utm.edu.mo

Ms Coral Chan
Head, Public Relations of Business Club
Macao University of Tourism
Tel:(853)6646 7766
Email: business@utm.edu.mo

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