{"id":14381,"date":"2015-05-12T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2015-05-12T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:50:14","slug":"from-bu-to-tokyo-the-world-of-beer-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/05\/12\/from-bu-to-tokyo-the-world-of-beer-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"From BU to Tokyo: the world of beer tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em><strong>Maiko Iizuka, an <a title=\"MSc Tourism Management\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.bournemouth.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate-degree\/tourism-management\/msc\/243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSc Tourism Management<\/a> graduate from Tokyo, tells us about her time at BU and where it has led&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I used to work for a travel agent in Tokyo before coming to BU. By working at a travel agent, I got interested in studying Tourism Management and Marketing at university, so that I could change my career. BU was an ideal place for me as it offered a Tourism Management course, and had a good academic reputation worldwide. In Japan, studying Tourism Management is not very popular, so I couldn\u2019t find a suitable course in Tokyo. Also, England was my second home &#8211; I used to study\u00a0at the University of Sheffield when I was an undergraduate as an exchange student from Tokyo. It was a bonus for me to study in a familiar environment.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1298 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/files\/2015\/05\/Maiko.jpg\" alt=\"Maiko\" width=\"406\" height=\"542\" \/>\n<p>The course was well organised from tourism management and marketing to business strategy and work placement. I especially enjoyed my dissertation with my supervisor. My dissertation topic was &#8216;the relationship between beer festivals and breweries in the UK.\u2019 I did lots of field work such as interviews and participant-observations in different locations, and met lots of interesting people. Through field work, I learned not only how to write academic papers and research skills but also about English culture and people.<\/p>\n<p>Academic staff were very understanding, and in particular I had a good relationship with my dissertation supervisor, programme leader and administrator.\u00a0 Actually I had lots of problems, but could sort them out thanks to their help. And they always encouraged and advised me very well when I faced problems.<\/p>\n<p>I am now working in inbound tourism at a travel agent in Tokyo &#8211; it is the largest travel agent in Japan! As I am interested in being a researcher in the tourism industry, I am also engaged in the Japanese academic community. I did a presentation about my BU dissertation at the Association of Japanese Geographers in March, and am joining in a new project, where I will be one of the authors on a Japanese Geography paper. I have been asked to write about beer tourism in Japan! I have just started my research, which is why I am still working with Phil (my dissertation supervisor), and it is my pleasure to promote BU in the Japanese academic community!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maiko Iizuka, an MSc Tourism Management graduate from Tokyo, tells us about her time at BU and where it has led&#8230; I used to work for a travel agent in Tokyo before coming to BU. By working at a travel agent, I got interested in studying Tourism Management and Marketing at university, so that I&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/05\/12\/from-bu-to-tokyo-the-world-of-beer-tourism\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about From BU to Tokyo: the world of beer tourism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[1717,130,48,2039,2186,299],"class_list":["post-14381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-association-of-japanese-geographers","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-maiko-iizuka","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-tourism-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}