SHATEC was set up in 1983 by the Singapore Hotel Association to equip Singapore’s hospitality industry with a skilled workforce. Since then, SHATEC has made its mark as a premium hospitality school with many of its 30,000 strong alumni from more than 20 countries helming key positions in the hospitality and tourism industry. For this, SHATEC received the prestigious “Most Outstanding Contribution to Tourism” award from the Singapore Tourism Board in 1992. SHATEC is the first institution to have been inducted into the World Gourmet Summit Hall of Fame in 2009 for winning the Culinary Institution of the Year award for 4 consecutive years (2001 to 2004). In addition to being a school for full-time students, SHATEC has been appointed by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency to be a CET Centre for Tourism and F&B industries.