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Yeoh Tay Boon is an experienced academician with deep specialisation in Malaysian hospitality education, bringing a rare combination of academic leadership and hands-on industry practice to the field. His career spans senior roles including Dean, Head of School, and Deputy Dean across several leading hospitality institutions, where he has consistently driven curriculum development, facility set-up, and programme accreditation under the Malaysian Qualifications Agency framework.
Prior to his academic career, he built a strong operational foundation in food and beverage management with international hotel brands in Singapore. He has also led a pioneering teaching hotel initiative and maintains active engagement with the broader industry as an external programme advisor and assessor across several universities, as well as through hotel service audits and executive training programmes for hospitality groups across the region.
Yeoh’s combination of academic rigour and practitioner experience reflects the depth of expertise that strengthens hospitality education and training standards across Asia. His insights support Asianhotelier.Org’s mission of developing the next generation of hospitality professionals across the region