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Taiwan Hotel & Motel Association of Southern California (THMASC)

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Taiwan Hotel & Motel Association of Southern California (THMASC)

Taiwan Hotel & Motel Association of Southern California (THMASC) (|南加州台灣旅館業同業公會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.

Identity Snapshot

Role in the Community

  • Recorded in the TAH story corpus as the first Taiwanese American organization in the business field (第一個台美人商業團體), per the 08/1974 record 1974; a dedicated corpus record also exists: Taiwan Hotel & Motel Association of Southern California 南加州台灣旅館業同業公會.
  • Own society history (band A, by the association itself): 2017 — founded 1974 by Taiwanese student-entrepreneurs in the hotel trade; 1992-09 hosted the 13th 世界華商觀光聯誼會議 (~500 overseas Chinese business attendees) at the Anaheim Hilton next to Disneyland; established sister associations with 高雄市旅館業同業公會, 台北市旅館同業公會, 美南台灣旅館業同業公會, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, and the California Hotel & Lodging Association; annual 年會/聖誕晚會/高爾夫球 tournaments and member training seminars; was actively organizing the 全美台灣旅館公會聯合會 as of 2017.
  • Community memoir Our Journeys 29 (ENG) credits Kenjohn Wang (then OCACC commissioner) with first founding the Taiwan Hotel-Motel Association (alongside the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce) to protect the welfare of local Taiwanese associations.
  • The association organizes community activities, incl. a Charity Golf Tournament 慈善高爾夫球友誼賽 (record, 2018) and hosted 台灣餐旅系學員美國暑假在職訓練營, an in-service summer training camp for hotel/restaurant-management students from Taiwan (63. record, 2016).
  • The association published its own periodical, 旅館通訊 (Dec 1997 issue in the corpus: 1997-12; a later edition recorded at 2017-06-16), and its member-press records include 蔡金裕 being profiled as a pioneer of Taiwanese-American hotelkeeping, published by the association (2017). The corpus names 蔡金裕 explicitly as the association’s 創會會長 (founding president), 1974 ( 2016-02-10).
  • Recent activity is documented directly in the corpus: a dedicated chapter of association activities was recorded 2019-02-10 ( 2019-02-10), and the association joined the 2021 南加州僑界 joint statement supporting Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly (2021 WHA 聯合聲明, taiwanjustice.net).
  • Locally it is a group member of Taiwan Center Foundation; at the continental level it relates to the umbrella body 北美洲台灣旅館公會聯合總會 (record, 2017).

Source Notes

  • Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
  • Hub: |taiwancenter.org
  • Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone

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