Santander Intern Programme for Final Year’s and Graduates

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Santander has 8 part funded 3-month internships with SME companies available which need to be allocated by 8th March. Once decided, the internships will then be advertised to our students.

The Santander Intern Programme is a scheme which provides final year students and recent Graduates paid-for work experience with local business. Santander is contributing 50% of the funding for the internship with the other 50% being funded by the university, the SME or both.

 The internship will last for 3 months and the intern will receive £1000 per month from the Programme.

 For more information please contact the Bournemouth University Ambassador Kelly Noble knoble@bournemouth.ac.uk

Bournemouth University and Macau IFT Video Conference on World Heritage

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On the 21st March, Bournemouth University will be hosting its annual video conference with Macau IFT. This year’s conference has the topic of World Heritage.

The first two guest speakers have just been announced:

Gde Indra Bhaskara,  a PhD student from the  School of Tourism at Bournemouth University will be giving a key note speech titled: The local community participation in UNESCO’s World Heritage nomination process: Jatiluwih rice fields, Bali, Indonesia

The second Key note speakers is Dr Jonathan R Edwards who is currently a Reader in Tourism in the School of Tourism at Bournemouth University titled: The second speaker: Title: World heritage Sites of the Silk Road in Central Asia – Opportunities and Challenges.

Any one is welcome to attend this conference.

The conference is being organsied by MSc Event Management student as part of their degree.

We will be bringing you more news over the next few weeks but for now please see the Facebook Page for more information

Sport Student’s Consultancy Project Presentation at Thruxton Driving Circuit

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Yesterday our Level H Sports students had their consultancy project presentations at Thruxton Driving Circuit.

The students have been working on 2 projects for Thruxton as part of their consultancy project.

One group, consisting of Faye Fisher, Nicola Page, Ben Gifford, Tom Deighton, Jake Roman-Capon, had to look at the driving experience that Thruxton offer and how they could enhance the experience for the customer.

Whilst the other group, consisting of Tim Donald, Scott Taylor, Adam Dover, Joe Moverly, James Burr, had to analyse the Karting Circuit also offered at Thruxton and come up with ways to market that more efficiently.

 Thruxton is a very successful business so it was quite a challenge for the students to suggest improvements.

However, yesterday both groups that took part in the consultancy project came up with some innovative ideas and impressed the people at Thruxton.

This was a great opportunity for the students to not only have the experience of a real life consultancy project but also potentially to make connections for future employment.

Sport BU’s Charlton Clarke LBS for £’s Comic Relief Challenge

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In the week commencing 4th March Charlton Clarke will be attempting to complete as many fitness classes as possible in 7 days at SportBU for Comic Relief.

Charlton will be taking part in the full class programme offered at SportBU on a weekly basis so 34 classes! These will include Pump, Spinning, Yoga, Step, LBT, Pilates and his very first Zumba class.

Charlton commented:

“I have always wanted to do a challenge for charity and as mad as it sounds I have always been jealous of the celebrities who get to do amazing challenges across the globe. I regularly teach fitness classes at sportBU but tend to avoid anything that involves greater levels of co-ordination i.e Zumba or Combat and generally do not get the opportunity to take part in other classes.

My initial thought was to sample a couple of different classes but then decided to go big and do as many classes as possible in one week. I think the regular class participants will enjoy watching me struggle through a weeks’ worth of classes.”

Good luck to Charlton from all in the School of Tourism!

You can sponsor Charlton here

Final Year students take part in RNLI Sea Survival Day as part of the STEEP Programme

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Every year the School of Tourism runs its  Student Talent Employability & Engagement Programme (STEEP) for final year students.

The activities offer range from career opportunities, to guest speakers to activity days such as the RNLI Sea Survival Day that took place last Wednesday.

The idea was for students to learn key team building skills and how to work together in a crisis but in a pool as part of sea survival.

30 final year students got to take part in the exciting day

Hospitality Student Parth Patel commented  “It was a fantastic team building activity and it emphasized that in certain crucial jobs, being a team player is a must and could make all the difference when trying to save lives at sea.”

For more on the STEEP programme please see here

Sean Beer and Philip Long contribute chapters to new book on Cultural Tourism

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School of Tourism lecturers Sean Beer and Philip Long have recently contributed chapters to The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism.

The book explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in the field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on this significant stream of tourism and its future direction.

The book is divided into 7 inter-related sections. Sean’s chapter, Philosophy and the Nature of the Authentic, is in section 1 which looks at the historical, philosophical and theoretical framework for cultural tourism. This section debates tourist autonomy role play, authenticity, imaginaries, cross-cultural issues and inter-disciplinarity.

Philip’s chapter co-authored with Nigel Morpeth, Critiquing Creativity in Tourism, is in section 6 which refers to Regeneration and Planning, especially the creative turn in cultural tourism, which can be used to avoid problems of serial reproduction, standardisation and homogenisation.

This is essential reading for students, researchers and academics of Tourism as well as those of related studies in particular Cultural Studies, Leisure, Geography, Sociology, Politics and Economics.

For more information please see here

 

School of Tourism’s Alexandra Correia is awarded her PhD

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Last week, part time PhD student Alexandra Correia had her Viva Voce for her PhD titled “An examination of inter-business cooperation by wine and tourism small and medium-sized businesses in the Douro Valley of Portugal”. Alexandra was awarded her PhD subject to a few minor changes.

Alexandra commented on the experience:

“The completion of the PhD represents the fulfilment of a very much awaited goal. Writing the thesis was simultaneously a challenging journey and a greatly rewarding learning process.

 Having the opportunity to be supervised by such a good supervision team (Professor Roger Vaughan, Professor Alan Fyall and Dr Philip Alford) made this an unforgettable and enriching experience.”

 Alexandra continued “The final step – the Viva Voce, as part of the all experience, was equally gratifying.   In the end, having achieved the PhD makes me to look back and be 100% sure that this journey and all the associated efforts were worthwhile.”

 Congratulations from everyone in the School of Tourism to Alexandra on this incredible achievement!

Retail Management Graduate takes part in this year’s Retail Management Consultancy Project

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Jeremy Fennell, the Ecommerce Director for Dixons Retail, has taken part in this year’s consultancy project which is part of the final year for retail management students.

Jeremy graduated from Bournemouth university Retail Management degree back in 1998 and has since then worked his way up through Dixons Retail. Last year, Retail Week named him number 46 in the top 100 Power List of 2012.

This year, Jeremy has taken part in the consultancy project as client for one of the final year groups.

The group were asked to focus their consultancy project on one of the sub brands of Dixons Retail, PC World and Currys.

Jeremy kindly donated the group 5 tablets at the start of the consultancy project to help them along with their project.

The students commented that Jeremy had been really easy to work with and very supportive and helpful throughout the whole process.

The students are presenting their report to Jeremy today.

Other brands taking part in this year’s consultancy project include WHSmith, Waitrose, John Lewis, B & Q, West Quay, and Ashley Road Retail Revival strategy.

For more information on Dixons Retail please see here

MSc Tourism Management Graduate Launches first book Arctic Reflections

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We have previously bought you news about Christy Hehir, an MSc Tourism Management graduate who has written a book based on her PhD research in the Arctic.

On January 28th the book, Arctic Reflections; a Moment of Inspiration, a Lifetime of Action was officially launched at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

Christy and Luka Tomac joined forces to create a moving and insightful book capturing the experiences of their Arctic journey. Through personal testimonies collected by Christy as part of her PhD research into how travel can act as a stimulus to influence lasting environmental behaviour, and photographs taken by Luka Tomac of the sights witnessed, this book goes beyond simple impressions and acts as a poignant reminder that our planet is at great environmental risk. Importantly, it also offers positive examples of young people taking action through their work with electric vehicles, satellite earth observations, youth engagement, the use of law in addressing climate change… and hopes to inspire the reader to join participants’ projects or indeed start their own.

 During her speech at the launch Christy summarised her Arctic Action Plan into three words; knowledge, engagement and responsibility and questioned the celebration of the billionth international passenger in 2012 versus a growing conscience that calls for the reduction in our everyday carbon emissions.  She concluded, “It is urgent that we agree on an appropriate course of action together.”

 Now launched, the book will be distributed to European Members of Parliament and key influences, plus there are plans for photography exhibitions in Zagreb, London and Oslo.

 Congratulations to Christy for this great achievement.

For a preview of the book, please click here. To order your copy of Arctic Reflections or for more information please email christyhehir@googlemail.com @christyhehir

Bournemouth University School of Tourism host their first virtual lecture with Montclair State University, USA

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Today Bournemouth University hosted a virtual interactive lecture with Montclair State University in the USA.

Both cohorts were given the lecture by Dr Heather Hartwell titled “Believe it or not hungry in hospital, eat well in prison” that focused on food service in hospitals and prisons.

Both cohorts were able to see and interact with each other throughout the lecture and were given the opportunity to ask questions and debate the topic at the end of the lecture.

This is the first time that Bournemouth University has hosted a virtual interactive lecture and is certainly something that we hope to repeat in the future as both sets of students seemed to gain a lot from the experience.