Bringing you all the latest news from The Department of Tourism and Hospitality at Bournemouth University
In late August, the BU senior lecturer spoke at the symposium celebrating the 20th anniversary of Cologne Business School hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. Alongside other invited speakers like the former CEO of Metro AG, the marketing director of Porsche AG and a director of the German Football Association, Tim elaborated on business ethics and sustainability in the 21st century. In particular, he focused the audience’s attention on developments in the sports industry.
Four delegates from Hainan Colleague of Software Technology attended the 2013 Hospitality summer school in Aug. The team is led by Prof. Zhiqiang Shang, Dean of the Tourism and Foreign Language Department. During their stay here in Bournemouth, they had a meeting with Dr. Keith Wilkes, Dr. Phil Long and Dr. Feifei Xu. The two parties exchanged opinions on a range of topics, including joint research funding, match funded PhD, summer school and top-up student recruitment.
From 4 to 6 September 2013 will be held at the University of Bournemouth, United Kingdom, the first meeting of the UNWTO.TedQual Students’ Advisory Board.
This Advisory Board has been created with the goal to learn from the students – in their role of future tourism professionals – about their thoughts, worries, aspirations and commitments once accessing the labour market, as well as, in turn, sharing the tourism sector’s main concerns regarding a better practice of the profession.
To attain this objective, students from UNWTO.TedQual Institutions from around the world will gather for three days in Bournemouth to share their opinion with UNWTO on two main topics: The Tourism Labour Market and how they, as future professionals, can make clear commitments to contribute to its Sustainable Development.
During the meeting, the Advisory Board will therefore have the opportunity to speak with the employers, to participate in mock job interviews, and work on the ethics Decalogue for future professionals of the tourism sector.
We strongly hope this Students’ Advisory Board will contribute to a better development of the sector, as well as to the development of the student’s own personal and professional talents.
For the full programme
Santander Universities Relationship Internship
Salary: Competitive
Location: London
Initial 6 Month Period
To support the Santander Universities U.K relationship team to help implement both the social responsibility and commercial activities for the Universities Programme.
The role will focus on a variety of tasks including maintaining database information, event management, creation of documentation, client liaison and ownership of some key portfolio project work all with a view to helping to develop and manage relationships within the global Santander Universities network.
A summary of potential work areas are listed below:
Key Responsibilities
•Build awareness of the Universities programme at all levels of Santander UK as well as within the UK Higher Education sector.
•Assist the relationship management team with maintaining and developing the agreements of the UK partner Universities.
•Maintenance and monitoring of accurate databases of awards and scholars,
•Assist with various initiatives and events to raise awareness of the Santander Universities division
•Keep up to date the internal information and reference sheets.
Agreement Management
Support the relationship team to.
•Agree and assist in the writing of the principal and ancillary agreements and to liaise with legal teams to ensure all correct prior to signing.
•Maintain an up to date database of recipients, ensuring compliance with partnership agreement.
•Assist in the arrangements of signing events and ceremonies, lectures events, and executive campus visits..
•Support the relationship managers in regular reviews with the Institutions, and ensure adjustments or amendments are actioned where necessary.
•Help to maintain a continuous working relationship with each Institution
For full job description and to apply please visit: https://mycareerhub.bournemouth.ac.uk/ViewJob.chpx?id=538052
Tomorrow Professor Stephen Page will be attending one of the Guardian round table events.
This particular event is titled ‘What are the main barriers to making mainstream tourism more sustainable and how can these most effectively be overcome?’ and the outcomes of it will be published in the Guardian.
We will bring you more news on the event later in the week.
The National Coastal Tourism Academy has named Tourism Studies graduate Samantha Richardson as its new director.
A high-flyer, Samantha has a wealth of experience in the tourism industry, most recently as Business Development Manager for Shore Operations at Carnival UK, the world’s largest cruise line operator. She has also work for P&O Cruises, Salisbury Cathedral, Thomas Cook and in the marketing department at Visit Britain’s Chicago office.
Samantha graduated from Bournemouth University with a first class degree in Tourism Studies and went on to gain an MSc in Tourism Management from Sheffield Hallam University.
With first-hand experience of a range of tourist organisation from small businesses to global corporations, Samantha is well-placed to lead the National Coastal Tourism Academy (NCTA) in its remit to create new jobs and develop a model for successful coastal tourism across the UK.
“The opportunity to be part of the Academy was too good a chance to miss,” said Samantha. “It’s very rare to be able to be part of a start-up that has the potential to create a step-change in the future of coastal tourism. Uniquely, the NCTA is a partnership between the three major tourism players in the town – Bournemouth Council, Bournemouth University and the local tourism industry, working together will be key to delivering our objectives.
“Our remit is ambitious, but with robust research from the University working in partnership with the different tourism sectors, we’ll hit the ground running. I’m passionate about tourism, it’s the very life-blood of the local economy, so I’m enormously excited about this new challenge.”
Samantha will be directing a team split between Bournemouth Council’s Town Hall and Bournemouth University.
Director of the Motor Sport Research Centre at Bournemouth University and Dorset Motoring author, Bruce Grant-Braham has recently written a book for drivers called the “RAC essential drivers’ handbook”
Bruce has pooled advice from a team of the County’s experts to offer valuable advice to car drivers nationwide.
Bruce, previously known for his motor sport and F1 books, was commissioned by Poundbury-based Veloce Publishing for this valuable addition to the company’s range of RAC advice handbooks.
Bruce commented “The RAC Essential Driver’s Handbook offers practical advice to car drivers as to how to they might best cope with some of the difficult situations that can occur at any time whilst driving. “
“Whether it is a breakdown, an accident, a car fire, an isolated car park or the difficulty of being a lone driver I hope the RAC Essential Driver’s Handbook will provide some ways of avoiding or minimising the effects of such stressful motoring situations”
“I am extremely grateful for the professional advice I received during my research. I am pleased to say that we can be reassured that we have some nationally recognised experts in our County and I am indebted to those individuals from Dorset Police, Dorset Fire and Rescue and South West Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust who willingly offered advice to make sure that the final manuscript is as accurate and up-to-date as possible.”
The handbook can be bought here www.veloce.co.uk
For more information on The Motor Sport Research Centre at Bournemouth University please see here
School of Tourism lecturer Janet Dickinson has been working on a research project with other academics called The 6th Transport project and they have recently started trails of the 6th Sense campsite app.
The RCUK funded project is designed to explore new ways to bring about more sustainable transport. The research vision is to understand the extent to which behavioural change in transport habits and practices can be facilitated through the creation of a new form of ‘transport network’, based on extending social networking principles to transport users and their individual vehicles.
The campsite app puts tourists staying at the campsite into a social network that facilitates opportunities for travel collaboration. Travel collaboration might involve:
The app also visualises the collective patterns of the campsite users so people get a better understanding of visitor routines to realise collaborative travel opportunities.
This tourism trial is part of a wider project with 2 other strands. The first is about improving logistics and is working with Oxfam UK to improve the efficiency of their operations. The second is working with schools to develop a real-time walking school bus app.
For more information on the project and to follow the project please see here www.sixthsensetransport.com
Event Management Lecturer Debbie Sadd is undertaking a research project which involves interviewing volunteers from London 2012.
Debbie was not only a Games Maker but also a Torch Bearer for London 2012.
Although it is a year since many people volunteered at the Games, Debbie along with her colleague Dr Ana Adi from the Media School, are undertaking the huge task of capturing the volunteer stories for an oral digital archive.
With several interviews already undertaken and many more to complete, the two have begun to develop a key message already for Ana to take with her to an Olympics conference in Buenos Aires in September attended by key Olympic scholars and International Olympic Committee representatives.
If you are interested in being part of this research project please email volunteerhistories@bournemouth.ac.uk
Last week Barbara Neuhofer was awarded the ITT PhD Student of the Year prize during the ITT’s Annual Chairman’s Summer Cocktails.
Barbara was nominated by Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, who has worked closely with Barbara in the e-Tourism lab. This is Dimitrios’ 2nd student in a row that has received the prestigious award as his PhD student Andrew Spencer was also awarded ITT PhD Student of the Year last year.
The event was held at The House of Commons and was sponsored by Dubai Tourism.
Guests were treated to a drinks reception and canapés before Dame Tessa Jowell MP presented the awards.
Barbara commented “I feel truly proud and honoured to receive this prestigious award by the Institute of Travel & Tourism. It is a great recognition for my PhD research and I am extremely grateful to Bournemouth University and to all the people who have supported me in my studies, in particular to my supervisor Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis. It was a privilege to celebrate this achievement in such a fantastic location, the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was a truly memorable evening for all of us.”
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Barbara’s supervisor, commented “This is a great recognition of the great progress that Barbara is doing in her PhD and the contribution to knowledge she is producing as evidenced in her publications and her community service through IFITT and other communities. I am particularly happy that this is the second student after Dr Andrew Spencer who won the ITT award last year and this is a testament to the cutting edge research we do at the eTourism Lab at Bournemouth University.”
Congratulations to Barbara on this incredible achievement!