Tropical Ceylon met our teachers with the summer sun, the bright greens and hospitality of ICOHT 2015 organizers

The International Institute on Knowledge Management (TIIKM) hold THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT on 5-6 November, 2015, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. More than 25 countries of the world took part in it. 

Almaty Management University was represented at this conference by Dr. Madina Smykova, Dr. Zhanar Rakhimbekova and Dr. Alima Kutybayeva.

They made their report entitled “Comparative Analysis of Hotel Business Development in Almaty and Astana Cities" in section on operational management of hotels. Hotel business development in Kazakhstan and main problems existing in this area caused certain interest among conference participants. 

Interesting reports on tourism and hotel business development have been delivered, in particular, by representatives of such countries As Sri Lanka, USA, Great Britain, Austria, Japan, South Korea, Singapore,  Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc. Special attention was paid to issues related to social responsibility in the sphere of tourism, preservation of ecology and environment, quality of service and level of development of tourism and hotel market in different regions and countries. Five sections on operational management in tourism and hotel business, marketing, human resources management, planning and development worked during the conference days.