Tourism and Hospitality

World Cup 2022 host Qatar appeals to just a third of the British public. Only a third of the British public would travel to Qatar, the destination for the 2022 World Cup, according to research by Bournemouth University’s Professor John Fletcher and the University of Plymouth’s Dr Yeganeh Morakabati. Despite the very British images of… Read more » about Qatar fails to win hearts of British public, research finds

Representatives from leading travel and tourism organisations and academia recently attended a workshop about ‘Technology and social media enabled service management in hospitality and tourism’, held at the Eye For Travel Summit in London. Moderated by the International Federation for IT in Travel and Tourism (IFITT) president – Professor Dimitrios Buhalis (Bournemouth University) – the… Read more » about IFITT workshop at Eye For Travel

The civil unrest in Egypt has done little to diminish its lure as a leading destination for British tourists according to research due to be published next month by tourism experts at Bournemouth University and the University of Plymouth. Academics have been surveying the public’s perception of countries in the Middle East over the past… Read more » about Egypt still ranks in the top destination wish

Bournemouth University recently hosted the 2011 International Conference on Culinary Arts and Sciences (ICCAS), which this year attracted international participants from across 19 countries. The seventh ICCAS conference, co-organised by Dr Heather Hartwell and Dr Peter Lugosi in BU’s School of Tourism, built on the success of past programmes by drawing together individuals and organisations… Read more » about BU hosts seventh ICCAS Conference

Professor Alan Fyall and Dr Peter Lugosi from BU’s School of Tourism spent five days at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida. They discussed future research in the areas of tourism, hospitality, leisure and events, and the development of academic co-operative programmes such as student exchange, study abroad and faculty… Read more » about School of Tourism academics visit University of Central Florida