In celebration of the Year of the Ox, Hospitality Young Leaders of Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation have joined hands with Tai O Heritage Hotel and Tai O Rural Committee representatives to spread festive joy and blessing to the Tai O community. The senior citizens enjoyed a great lion dance performance by the Buddhist Fat Ho Memorial College team. Meanwhile, the young leaders had lots of fun writing fai chuns and making handicrafts using red packets with the kindergarten pupils. More than 100 gift packs were distributed to the elderly and children.

This Christmas, Tai O Heritage Hotel’s Hospitality Young Leaders and colleagues joined hands with the Tai O Rural Committee, the Hong Kong Family Welfare Society (Tai O) and Christian and Missionary Alliance Tai O Kindergarten in visiting 100 elderly villagers and children in Tai O, presenting gifts to spread joy and celebrate the festive season with the community.

Hospitality Young Leaders joined hands with community partner Eco Marine and some 20 Tai O residents to clean up Tai O shores, helping to preserve the rich marine resources and beautiful scenery of Tai O.

The hotel has collaborated with the Government to promote recruitment and training opportunities for the youth in Tai O, Tung Chung, and remote areas of Lantau. Currently, over half of the working staff at the hotel are residents on Lantau Island or in Tai O village. Some are employed as docent guides for eco and cultural experience tours.

HKHCF, Tai O Rural Committee and Tai O Fei Mao Li have teamed up to create cultural attractions in the Tai O community with 3D mural paintings that showcase natural ecology, people stories and history of Tai O.

Each year, the hotel invites more than 200 children and elderly members from the Tai O and Lantau community to celebrate festive seasons together.

The hotel also organises and participates in a number of Tai O traditional festivities every year, including the Tai O Dragon Boat Water Parade, which has been classified as an ‘intangible cultural heritage’, and the Tai O Water Marriage Parade.

HKHCF launched ‘Tai O Community Music Programme’ in 2019 in collaboration with YWCA Tai O, local students and elderly to compose a new edition of the indigenous song (鹹水歌) that is inspired by traditional child’s games in Tai O. A music video was produced for the new song.