Enter 2013 Awards

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Last week, after the success of Enter 2013, Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and PhD student Soultana Symeonidou were both awarded separate awards from the conference committee.

Dimitrios was awarded for his 20 years of contributions to Enter and Soultana came third in the award for Best PhD Proposal.

Enter 2013 ran from Tuesday 22nd – Friday 25th and celebrated 20 years of continuing contribution and ground breaking interactions within the IFITT community.

The ENTER conference, organised by IFITT, offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.

Congratulations to both Dimitrios and Soultana! For more information on Enter please see here

School of Tourism graduate sets up graduate and student recruitment website Witlr

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Recent School of Tourism graduate Nick Guy has just launched a new student and graduate recruitment business with a twist.

Witlr, set up by Nick and his business partner David Rubie-Todd who also studied at Bournemouth, aims to redefine how businesses find their ideal candidate. Witlr aims to create an online hub where businesses can find their ideal employee. In turn, they will make it easier for graduates to find a role that suits their skill set and personality, leading to greater job satisfaction and long term career prospects.

Nick explains the need for such a tailored service. “Witlr is a professional platform that gives students and graduates a place to discover opportunities that previously they would never have known or thought about. In my final year at university I was applying to all the big graduate schemes not because I particularly wanted to work there but it just seemed like the only option available.”

We wish the team the best of luck for this new business and encourage any students or graduates to take a look at the site:

Visit www.witlr.com to build your profile and be instantly connected to employers.

Find out more about the team on their Facebook page or follow @Witlr for the latest news and advice.

The Student Talent Employability & Engagement Programme (STEEP) for Final Year Students

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We have recently launched a number of activities for students in their final year as part of the STEEP programme.

 The activities vary from survivor training with the RNLI, First Aid Courses, Career opportunites and High Flying in the New Forest

Take a look at the link below to see if any take your fancy and for information on how to sign up:

STEEP 2013 Programme

Tourism Management Graduate wins ITB Science Award for best dissertation

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Astrid Fehringer, a 2012 MSc Tourism Management graduate, has recently found out that she has won the ITB Science Award for best dissertation.

Astrid now has to present her dissertation at the award ceremony in Berlin as part of the ITB conference.

Congratulations to Astrid on this brilliant achievement. We shall be bringing you news of her trip to Berlin after it has happened in March.

17 Events Management and Leisure Marketing students will be attending the IFEA this week

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This week 17 of our final Event Management and Leisure Marketing students will be attending the IFEA Europe Conference in Rotterdam.

Founded in 1956 as the Festival Manager’s Association, the International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA) today is The Premiere Association Supporting and Enabling Festival & Event Professionals Worldwide.

IFEA Europe is a networking organisation bringing together professionals who work in the cultural festivals and public events sector in Europe. This LinkedIn Subgroup is for IFEA members and non-members to share experiences, creativity and innovation, news and information, advice and support.

The conference is great opportunity for our students to network with some key people from the industry and we are sure it will be an amazing experience for them.
We will be catching up with the students whilst they are over there so hopefully will be bringing you some more blogs on it.

Events and Leisure students start their live events

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All second year Event Management and Leisure Marketing students have to manage their own live events as part of their degree.

The students are put into groups and have to manage and organise an event for an external client.

This year the clients for the students include MacMillan; Youth Cancer Trust; The Salvation Army; and SUBU to name a few.

The events that the students are putting on range from student nights out; a vintage family fair; a careers fun day; a charity auction and many more!

The events will be taking place from now until end of March and we will be bringing you news from the events over the next few months.

7 Sports students to present at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research

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The British Conference of Undergraduate Research is a well-regarded conference open to all undergraduate students of any discipline undertaking research at any university in the UK, and one that BU has been represented at in the past.

This year 7 students all from the Sport Academic group have been chosen to present their research at the conference. The 4th year students will each get to present their research to the conference panel and get a chance to meet other undergraduate students from across the UK.
The students presenting are below:

•Emma Mosley studying Sports Psychology and Coaching Science: Imagined success and failure in sport: Exploring heart rate variability as a performance indicator in varsity netball players

•Olivia Scott doing Sport Psychology and Coaching Science: A Qualitative Study into Athletes’ Experiences of Maltreatment Within Sport

•Jennifer Kesik studying Sports Management: Understanding the motivations of 2012 Olympic Volunteers: Implications on Human Resource Management (HRM) Practices.

•Ella Hope studying Sport Psychology and Coaching Sciences: An investigative study into the sporting and exercise behaviours of athletes with acquired disabilities: A pre and post disability comparison.

•Shrehan Lynch studying Sports Development & Coaching Science: The factors affecting enjoyment of a student teacher in an independent preparatory school in Dorset: An auto-ethnography.

•Boris Stankov studying Sports Management: Impact and Effectiveness of “UEFA Grassroots Charter” in countries like Bulgaria

•Phillip Stirrett studying Sports Management: Reality of the Games: An investigation into the London 2012 Olympics legacy of sporting infrastructure for young women in the UK and also presenting Reality of the Games: Exploring London 2012 Olympic legacy for young women in the UK.

Congratulations to all the students presenting at the conference in April!

Enter 2013

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Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, president of IFITT (International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism) is currently at Enter 2013, an annual conference organised by IFITT.

The ENTER conference, organised by IFITT, offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.
At ENTER 2013, the theme is eTourism opportunities and challenges for the next 20 years exploring information and communication technologies concepts, applications, and business models in travel and tourism.

The conference brings together the research community with industry and it is organised in three streams namely, industry, destinations and research tracks. The conference also features 6 world class keynote speakers. All submissions to the research track is rigorously evaluated for novelty, significance, and soundness. Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory / issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial / industry / social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations.

The conference celebrates 20 years of continuing contribution and ground breaking interactions within the IFITT community. All started in Innsbruck and we are back here to celebrate our 20th birthday.

We will be bringing you more news from the conference soon.

School of Tourism Alumni Hall of Fame

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Here at the School of Tourism we are very proud of our Alumni and we like to show case what they have got up to and how far they have travelled.

To celebrate this fact we are putting together a School of Tourism Hall of Fame. The “Hall of Fame” will consist of photos of our alumni in exciting places with a small caption that will be eventually displayed in the School of Tourism.

If you are part of our alumni we would love to receive pictures from you! We are looking for exciting pictures of you all around the world and a small caption about what you’re doing now and explaining the photo.

It could be anything from working in a foreign country to working or being part of the Olympics – we would love to hear from you!

The only requirements are you are in the photo and that you are part of the School of Tourism Alumni!

If you would like to get involved please send your photo and a small caption to Anna Jones ajones@bournemouth.ac.uk

Please note by sending your image you consent to it being used in School of Tourism Hall of Fame and potentially other promotional material.

Working with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Themis Foundation in Andorra

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Professor Adele Ladkin has just returned from a visit to UNWTO.Themis in Andorra where she has been working on a collaborative project. As part of its Capacity Building Programme, UNWTO.Themis provides educational courses for tourism industry experts. Due to the demand for different topics, subject experts from the tourism industry and public sector are recruited as facilitators to deliver the courses.

Adele and Ms Sònia Figueras, the UNWTO.Capacity Programme manager at the UNWTO Themis Foundation have been writing a teaching guide and intensive training course for the facilitators.
As a provider of educational courses, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is committed to sharing best practice in tourism teaching and learning. The purpose of the course is to assist and train facilitators to provide UNWTO Themis courses. Along with practical guidance, the course aims to ensure that facilitators understand and articulate the philosophy and strategic issues of the UNWTO, UNWTO.Themis and their programmes.

The visit has provided an excellent opportunity for knowledge exchange, with Adele gaining an insight into the latest educational activities being undertaken by UNWTO.Themis, and for her to share her expertise in developing tourism educational materials.