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Guest Lecture Fugong Su, Vice Chairman of Henan Association for Tourism Development and Promotion China – Henan as a historical region and tourism resort in China

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Dont miss on Monday: Guest Lecture Monday 10th October Shelley Lecture Theatre 16:00-17:00 https://www.facebook.com/events/1802643546645345/

henanGuest Lecture Fugong Su, Vice Chairman of Henan Association for Tourism Development and Promotion China – Henan as a historical region and tourism resort in China

Fugong Su, is currently the Vice Chairman of Henan Association for Tourism Development and Promotion. He is a Chief Economist and has extensive experiences at both government and industry in areas of information industry, tourism, regional economic development and investment etc. Prior to his current role, he worked as Director of Tourism Bureau at Henan Province between 2008 and 2010. Mr Su also worked as the Director General of Henan Information and Technology Bureau for 8 years between 2000 and 2008 and provided strategic lead for the policy implementation and development of information and technology industry in China. In addition to his strategic role within the government, he also worked in several regional development organizations (YuXin Co. Ltd and YuGang Co. Ltd.) and led the government inward investment strategy in Singapore and Hongkong. He graduated from Zhengzhou University, China with English major and worked as the First Secretary in the Chinese Embassy to Philippine between 1989-1991.

Proud to support the Dorset Magazine Food, Drink and Farming Awards 2016 @LifeFoodAwards

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The Department of Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University is proud to support the Dorset Magazine Food, Drink and Farming Awards 2016. As a world leader in Food research Bournemouth University is lucky to lulworthestatework with the Dorset Food community, a renowned region for its top-notch produce and the passion of the people who work in the industry. This event celebrates the champions that makes this success reality.

 

 

 

 

rw1Dorset Magazine Food Drink and Farming awards celebrated the greatest passions is the food and drink produced in this county, and the farms from which that produce comes at a glamorous awards evening held at Lulworth Castle on October 6th. The awards are designed to showcase the great and the good in Dorset, and reward the hardworking people behind them, including suppliers and producers, small farming businesses, chefs, restaurants, pubs and hoteliers.

 

The Department of Tourism and Hospitality of Bournemouth University has very well established research on food, nutrition and wellbeing. Staff working in this area have a wealth of experience in both food service and nutrition, and managing projects ranges from large scale to those for SMEs. Professor Heather Hartwell and her team have investigated a number of issues, including food wastage and how it might be reduced; and alternative cost-effective feeding strategies, such as making a food choice at the time of consumption to help improve patients’ food intake and increase their nutritional status. They have also explored obesity and the dietary habits of students. This provided invaluable information to allow service providers to optimise their approach. In addition, Dr Sean Beer has been researching food and authenticity from a cultural perspective, comparing and contrasting commercial and academic perspectives on the nature of authenticity and the role it plays within the hospitality, tourism and leisure industries. The discussion commences by looking at the complex nature of the relationship between food and ourselves as consumers and then goes on to examine how society seeks to regulate the authenticity of food by using terms such as organic, protected and local.

Richard Ward Food and Beverage specialist at Bournemouth University represented the Department and presented the award.

 

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For updates on the 2016 Dorset Magazine Food and Drink Awards, follow the Twitter@LifeFoodAwards

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Dr Duncan Light on (Dis)ordering the City: Buildings, Bodies and Urban Space

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(Dis)ordering the City: Buildings, Bodies and Urban Space

http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3567

  • Wed, 05 Oct 2016
  • 6.00 PM – 8.00 PM

Emily Speed in conversation with Duncan Light

As part of the Practising Place programme, In Certain Places is proud to present an evening with artist Emily Speed in conversation with human geographer Dr Duncan Light, hosted by Bluecoat. The event focused on the making and reshaping of urban space. In particular, it explored the relationship between official urban planning processes and the subversion of city spaces by the people who use them. Drawing upon their own creative and academic research, Speed and Light are examined the ways in which urban spaces are performed, and how certain practices – such as walking, urban exploration and the creation of ‘desire lines’ – might be viewed as tactics for ‘disordering’ the city.

For the past year Dr Duncan Light Bournemouth University has been involved in a collaboration project with Emily Speed, a Liverpool-based artist.  This was part of the ‘In Certain Places’ project (http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/explore/groups/in_certain_places.php ), organised by the University of Central Lancashire which pairs artists with academics to encourage discussion and exchange of ideas and perspectives.  Duncan and Emily had an extensive email ‘conversation’ (lasting over 6 months) which focused on the theme of public space in the city.  They shared different perspectives on the way that people in the city use public space, often in ways that subvert the attempts of the city authorities to create an orderly and ordered public space. The collaboration culminated in a public event – entitled “(Dis)ordering the City” at Liverpool’s Bluecoat Arts Centre on 5th October.  Duncan and Emily each gave a 20 minute presentation about their way of approaching the subject, which was followed by a conversation and then a lively question and answer session with the audience (of about 40 people). The final stage of the collaboration will be a joint publication, due out in 2017.

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About the speakers

Emily Speed works in sculpture, installation and performance and her work is concerned with the relationship between the body and architecture. During 2016 she has solo exhibitions at TRUCK, Calgary and a major new commission at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas. Recent exhibitions include Plymouth Art Centre; g39, Cardiff; Oredaria Gallery, Rome; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, USA; Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland. Speed’s work is held in the Arts Council Collection, Tate Artists’ Books Collection and her artists’ books are held in numerous libraries in the US including Yale, Library of Congress and MIT.

Dr Duncan Light is senior lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality at Bournemouth University. A human geographer by background, he worked for 20 years in Liverpool before moving to Bournemouth.  He has research interests in urban landscapes, particularly in Romania (a country he has visited regularly for more than 20 years). In particular, his research has explored the efforts to remake the ‘official public landscape’ created by Romania’s communist regime in the post-communist period. He has published papers on these issues in a range of journals and has also contributed chapters to a number of recent edited volumes about post-communist change.
Practising Place is a programme of public conversations, designed to examine the relationship between art practice and place. Each event is hosted at a different venue and explores a specific aspect of place by bringing artists together with people from different backgrounds, who share a common area of interest. Practising Place forms part of the In Certain Places project, which is based in the School of Art, Design and Fashion at the University of Central Lancashire, and is funded by the Arts Council of England.

Nominate in the Bournemouth University Alumni Awards

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MSc Retail students

 

BU has a huge network of successful alumni living all over the world – and we’re asking for your help to nominate them for a 2017 Alumni Award, supported by the British Council and Education UK.

 

These awards are a fantastic opportunity to celebrate our alumni’s outstanding achievements.

 

Winners and finalists are leaders in their fields who have used their experience of studying at a UK university to make a positive contribution to their communities, professions and countries.

 

Alumni can nominate themselves, but if you know of a student who studied here at BU and has gone on to achieve exceptional success, you can nominate on their behalf. Please visit the Alumni Awards website to find out full details on how to enter, including the eligibility criteria.

 

Taking place in 14 locations, UK alumni in every continent will be celebrated at

prestigious award ceremonies in Egypt, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey and the USA. Please note that in order to nominate, alumni must be currently residing in one of these countries. 

 

Key dates

  • Wednesday 7 September: applications and nominations process opens
  • Sunday 16 October: nominations close
  • Monday 31 October: applications close
  • Shortlisting takes place in November, with the finalists announced in December/January
  • Between January to March, winners will be announced at award ceremonies in participating countries. 

 

For full details, please head to the Alumni Awards website, and take a look at the British Council Facebook and British Council twitter as well as the Education UK Facebook and Education UK twitter accounts.

 

If you do choose to nominate, please email alumni@bournemouth.ac.uk to make the team aware of your submission. 

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016, Innovations in hospitality and travel – Nov 10th

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ESRC Festival of Social Science 2016, Innovations in hospitality and travel

November 10 @ 10:00 am – 13:00 pm

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This half-day event will  present the innovations that have been introduced to the travel and hospitality industry via cutting edge social science research.

 

When is the best time to book a flight or a hotel? How can companies make money by applying dynamic pricing techniques? The talk will answer to these questions and will cover innovative payment mechanisms applied in restaurants. You will also have the chance to find out about the role of menu design in shaping more responsible food choices.

 

Hear from BU researchers and marketing professionals reporting on the outcome of real-life experiements and business intervention and join in the debate to find out how research is impacting on innovation in the travel and hospitality industries.

 

Event Programme:

10.00 -11:45 Dynamic pricing, best time to book and new pricing mechanisms( Dr. Giampaolo Viglia, Professor Claudio Piga from Keele University and the staff from HOTS Business game)

11:45-12.00 Tea/coffee break

12.00 -13.00 Innovations in food, technology, and menu labeling (Dr. Viachaslau Filimonau, Prof Adele Ladkin, Prof. Heather Hartwell and Dr. Sean Beer)

 

CLICK here to register for this event

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/innovations-in-hospitality-and-travel-registration-27211035941

Bournemouth University event at the World Travel Market WTM: eTourism: Disrupting innovations for Tourism and Hospitality

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WTM eTourism: Disrupting innovations for Tourism and Hospitality

Monday 7th November 2016, 10:30 – 12:15   WTM Inspire Theatre – EU475

FREE event – need to have access to the World Travel Market on Monday

https://bu-ifitt-wtm.eventbrite.co.uk

http://www.wtmlondon.com/en/Sessions/28215/eTourism-Disrupting-innovations-create-opportunities-and-challenges-the-tourism-and-hospitality-industry

Disrupting innovations generate significant market structure changes, modifying the operating practices, industry structure and dominant logic. This structural change is affecting the organizational networks and the services tourism players are supposed to use to perform well in markets. Both opportunities and challenges emerge for the whole tourism and hospitality industry. Relationships between players change as their respective roles change; this is driven by e-commerce / e-business and disruptive innovation. For instance hotels, thanks to e-business technological platforms, can now use algorithms to set yield and revenue management strategies, monitor competition in real time and allow consumers to use mobile devices to access several services. In the tourism industry, many innovations have been initiated from companies in the information technology sector. Generally, Information technology is revolutionizing products, services and markets.

CHAIR 

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis Bournemouth University


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Kevin May Tnooz.com 

Mario Hardy Pacific Asia Tourism Association, Thailand 

Nathaniel Green, DUETTO Research, USA

Richard Hatter Hotel Icon, Hong Kong 

Andy Owen-Jones, BD4Travel, Germany 

Matthew Gardiner, UnderTheDoormat, UK 

New publication Brown, L., Richards, B. (2016) Media Representations of Islam in Britain: A Sojourner Perspective Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 36, 3, 350-263

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New publication byAssociate Professor Dr Lorraine Brown

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Brown, L., Richards, B. (2016) Media Representations of Islam in Britain: A Sojourner Perspective Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 36, 3, 350-263

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study on international Muslim students’ perceptions of media portraits of Islam. 18 students were interviewed; they came from a range of countries so that a diversity of opinion could be gathered. The paper reveals that participants perceived the representation of Islam in the British media to be negative, being associated with conservatism, economic backwardness and terrorism. Participants criticised the media’s tendency towards the homogenisation of Muslims and of Muslim countries. They also called on media organisations to balance the negative portrait of Islam with positive news stories and to be more responsible in their reporting of terrorism. Interestingly, their direct consumption of UK media was limited, pointing to the possibility that their views were either ‘discursively’ driven or were the product of ‘passive media consumption’.

  

Introduction 

 

Global competition for the recruitment of international students is increasing as international education has become a major export industry at the university level, generating foreign exchange and economic benefits for universities and receiving destinations[i] .  In the UK context, the Higher Education Statistics Agency[ii] estimated that there were 405,800 international students registered in British Higher Education in 2009/2010, making up approximately 16% of the total UK student population. In recognition of the importance of this income source, institutions are increasingly seeking to understand the issues facing international students in a bid to improve their product[iii]. Research into the international student experience has, therefore, steadily grown, focusing on adjustment to the new society and to the new academic culture[iv].

Among the issues faced by international students in a new culture are racism and religious intolerance. Research has found that international Muslim students in particular experienced verbal and physical abuse whilst studying in England[v]. Further, there is dissatisfaction with the way the British news media misrepresented Islam, which was seen to fuel prejudice[vi]. The findings presented in this paper derive from a research project that aimed to explicitly explore international Muslim student perceptions of media representations of Islam. Little previous research has been done on the topic, and none from the sojourner perspective.

The international sojourn is defined as a temporary between-culture stay[vii].  While there is some debate about the extent and directness of ‘media effects’ upon audiences, it is widely believed amongst media scholars that the media are powerful influences on public attitudes and behaviour[viii] as well as on the well-being of those targeted by negative media messages[ix]. The authors believe that sojourners’ experiences of the media-saturated environment in the country they are visiting is an important research topic.  

New book edited by Professor Stephen Page : The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Asia

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Michael Hall and Stephen Page, 2017, The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Asiapage

Editors

C. Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, Oulu University; Visiting Professor, Linneaus University, and Senior Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg. Author and editor of over 80 books, he has published widely on tourism, sustainability, governance and food issues.

Stephen J. Page is Professor of Tourism, School of Tourism, Bournemouth University, and author and editor of 36 books on tourism, leisure and events and Associate Editor of the journal Tourism Management.

About the Book

Asia is regarded as the fastest growing area for international and domestic tourism in the world today and over the next 20 years. Given the economic, social and environmental importance of tourism in the region there is a need for a comprehensive and readable overview of the critical debates and controversies in tourism in the region and the major factors that are affecting tourism development both now and in the foreseeable future.

This Handbook is an ambitious survey of the region and its continued growth and development as a key tourism region as a receiver and generator of tourism, with a high proportion of intra-regional travel. The book is divided into five sections. This first section provides an introduction to the region and context to the nationally focused chapters. The next three sections are then broadly based on the three UNWTO Asian regions: southeast Asia, south and central Asia and east and north-east Asia providing readers with a valuable snapshot of tourism at various scales, and from various approaches and positions with the concluding section considers future prospects for tourism in Asia. The handbook is interdisciplinary in coverage and is also international in scope through its authorship and content. It presents a range of perspectives and understanding of the processes and forces shaping tourism in this fascinating and dynamic region of global tourism activity.

This is essential reading for students, researches and academics interested in Tourism in the growth region of Asia now and in the future.

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Job: Associate Professor/Processor Hospitality & Tourism Marketing Management (Job Ref: FMG73) Bournemouth University

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Associate Professor/Processor Hospitality & Tourism Marketing Management (Job Ref: FMG73) Bournemouth University

https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/professorial-recruitment-campaign deadline soon 26 Sept

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Click here to apply

Key information

Salary:Professor- Starting salary from £60,216 – £66,454 with further progression opportunities to £82,489 / Associate Professor- Starting salary from £55,389 – £58,754 per annum with further progression opportunities to £68,115

Date advertised:Friday, August 26, 2016

Closing date:Monday, September 26, 2016 – midnight

Bournemouth University is creating a stimulating, challenging and rewarding university experience in a world class learning community, through sharing our unique fusion of excellent education, research and professional practice and inspiring our students, graduates and staff to enrich the world. The university has seen unprecedented growth with more than 17,000 students of which 1,500 are international students from around 130 countries.  BU has a strong professional orientation with a focus on academic excellence and graduate employability.

The University is investing in the growth of the Faculty of Management in order to enhance our academic reputation through excellent teaching and learning underpinned by impactful research in a global environment.  Knowledge development and education is at the heart of the Faculty and we are proud to offer an excellent portfolio of programmes including MSc Finance related courses allowing for various specialisations including Economics, MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, MBA, BA (Hons) Business Studies, and MSc programmes in Tourism and Hospitality Management.

The Faculty combines academic excellence and expertise from the areas of business and management, economics and tourism, which is documented by highly successful submissions to UoA 19 (Business and Management Studies) and UoA 26 (Sports and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism) in the recent Research Excellence Framework 2014. Successful applicants are expected to demonstrate research leadership and to engage in cutting edge research which enhances their contribution to high quality education.

We currently seek applications for Professor or Associate Professor from suitably qualified candidates in the areas below:  Hospitality & Tourism Marketing Management (Job Ref: FMG73)

A Professor/Associate Professor will provide academic and managerial leadership in an area related to those above.  Sustained networks with industry and relationships with professional bodies are highly valued in this role alongside a track record in publications and bidding.  Successful candidates are expected to engage in the activities of the Faculty of Management and the wider University. Opportunities for professional and research development will be provided.

You will be qualified to Doctorate level or equivalent in a relevant field.  You will have demonstrated global research leadership and you will be committed to a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement.

For further information and discussion or the opportunity for an informal visit, please contact – Hospitality & Tourism – Professor Dimitrios Buhalis on  01202 961517 or via dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk

Please note – Interview dates:   Monday 21 November 2016