HFTP Penn State

05/30/2023

I would recommend any students who are able to attend, apply to volunteer at HITEC. I was a HITEC Student Volunteer in 2011, 2012, and 2013. It was a great experience to see how an event of 5000+ attendees is put together. -Matthew Coll, HRIM Class of 2014

Please answer ALL required questions of the application to the best of your knowledge.

10/29/2019

We are proud to have been represented at Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) Annual Convention by these fine young professionals. Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®)

11/04/2018

Paul Kelley and a group of students represented Penn State School of Hospitality Management HFTP (Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals) Annual Convention in Louisville, KY. They gathered with hundreds of industry finance and technology professionals for networking and education sessions.

08/27/2018

New members must mean a new semester started. Congrats to our new members. Contact us today if you would like to join HFTP at Penn State.

Happy HFTP Member Monday! Please welcome the following new members:

• Liz Abraham | Hilton Worldwide Headquarters | USA
• Matthew Abrahams | Daiwa Living Waldorf Group | AUSTRALIA
• Courtney Brown | O'Reilly Hospitality Management, LLC | USA
• Elliott Cameron | MercantileX | USA
• Matthew Clark | Shiji Australia | AUSTRALIA
• James Louis Deaver | University of South Florida | USA
• Shawn Duggan | University of South Florida | USA
• Yu-Hsiang Fang | University of South Florida | USA
• Ine Fossum | FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management | USA
• Dongni Guo | Frenchman's Creek, Inc. | USA
• Nancy Kitchel | Gaidos, Inc | USA
• Justin Lacher | University of South Florida | USA
• Yupeng Liu | University of South Florida | USA
• Mark Mahfoud | Homewell Insurance Services, Inc. | USA
• Macaire Myers | University of Florida | USA
• Tianyu Pan | Florida International University | USA
• Katherine Piehl | University of Florida | USA
• Marisa Pugliese | The Pennsylvania State University | USA
• Brianna Carrie Rowland | University of South Florida | USA
• Tina Ting | University of South Florida | USA
• Michael Welday, CPA | The Saint Andrews Golf Club | USA
• Tara Wily | The Pennsylvania State University | USA
• Martin Wong | Loden Hotel | CANADA
• Bi-Hwei Yang | University of South Florida | USA

05/08/2015

Making Social Media a Hospitality Manager's priority for marketing rather than an afterthought.

Hospitality Management students had the opportunity to pitch a social media marketing campaign to hotel executives as the culmination of a semester-long project.

12/20/2014

Congratulations to our VP Stefano Cerabona and Secretary Allie Freund for graduating

11/17/2014

Don't forget! Tomorrow is our excel help session at 6:30 to 7:30PM in Mateer Computer Lab. If you have an excel assignment that you have questions about, bring it in!

10/27/2014

Meeting today at 6 pm in 118 Mateer. We have plenty of leadership opportunities and food will be provided. We have many interesting topics to discuss. Please bring others who may be interested.

09/20/2014

First meeting of the semester Monday 9/22 at 11:30AM in 201C Mateer! Learn more about the opportunities in HFTP, meet some of our fabulous chair members, and get some free pizza!

11/19/2013

Booking through twitter, a low risk option geared toward the immerging mobile market.

Social media have been growing explosively in the travel sector as more consumers engage with tools like Twitter and Facebook and more brands clamor to take advantage. In the early stages of social adoption, many consumers used the tools to vent frustration, communicate with peers and help plan itin...

09/03/2013

If anyone is available, consider joining president Matt Coll as he speaks to the HRIM 202 class today, 4:15-5:30