IFT has been awarded by the Macao SAR Government “the Medal of Merit for Tourism”, in recognition of its significant contributions in advancing local tourism development

Invited by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), IFT became a founding member of the Asian Academy for Heritage Management (AAHM)

IFT has received the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in “Education and Training” again, for having set up the “Macao Occupational Skills Recognition System” (MORS) for the local tourism and hospitality industry in collaboration with the European Union (EU)

IFT is the first United Nations World Tourism Organization UNWTO.TedQual certified institute in tourism education 

In cooperation with European Union (EU), the Macao-Europe Centre for Advanced Tourism Studies (ME-CATS) was established in IFT

IFT has received the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in “Education and Training”, which acknowledged the content and the quality of IFT’s programmes

The Network of Asia-Pacific Education and Training Institutes in Tourism (APETIT), a body fully supported by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) has selected IFT as the “training the trainer centre”