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.

4 Hospitality Management Students are chosen for prestigious Young Guns Award final

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The prestigious Young Guns Award is a national competition that recognises hospitality students that have excelled in their work placements.

For the last 11 years Bournemouth has held a place in the finals and has had a student win most years.

This year 4 of the 10 finalists nationally are from Bournemouth University’s Hospitality Management degree and 5 other universities sharing the remaining 6 places.

Congratulations to Caroline Austin, Emily Bird, Rebecca Cridge and Sam Pryor who have been chosen as the four finalists from Bournemouth University.

We wish them all the best at the Judges lunch in London on March 7th hosted by Lexington Catering.

Senior Lecturer Sean Beer interviewed regarding the horse meat scandal

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Yesterday, School of Tourism Senior Lecturer, Sean Beer commented on the horse meat burger story.

“I suppose that what surprises me about the revelation that horse DNA has been found in burgers …in the UK is that people are surprised. But then most people don’t know anything about the food that they consume, and care less. If I came up to you on the street and said “can I put my fingers in your mouth” most people would call the police; yet we quite happily stuff whatever into our mouths without a second thought. Combine this with global supply chains, competition for profit and severe economic pressure and things will happen. A bit of horse meat in my burger is one of the least of my food worries.”

His comments were picked up by the Daily Echo and yesterday he was even interviewed on Radio Solent.

Will this change your eating habits?

School of Tourism’s Neelu Seetaram co-edits Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism

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Back in August School of Tourism’s Neelu Seetaram coedited Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches with Larry Dwyer and Alison Gill.

 This insightful book explores the most important established and emerging qualitative and quantitative research methods in tourism.

 The authors provide a detailed overview of the nature of the research method, its use in tourism, the advantages and limitations, and future directions for research.

 Each chapter is structured to provide information on: the nature of the technique and its evolution; background and types of problems that the technique is designed to handle; applications of the technique to tourism, including discussion of studies that have used the technique and their findings; advantages and limitations of the technique conceptually and for policy formulation; and further developments and applications of the technique in tourism research.

 Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism will appeal to social scientists, students as well as researchers in tourism who use quantitative and qualitative research techniques.

 The book is available to buy from Amazon here

Digital Destinations Project host their 2nd Seminars

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This week the Digital Destinations Project are hosting their second seminars for 60 businesses that are signed onto the project.

The aim of the yearlong project is to capture change in the adoption and use of digital technologies and to develop a strong, competitive local tourism economy.

Each business that signed up to the project is assigned a final year E-Marketing student who will eventually help them come up with an online strategy.

Dr Philip Alford and Online Consultant Maureen McAllister will be helping the businesses throughout the project and teaching them online best practice for their business.

As well as this each group will participate in a series of knowledge exchange activities including strategic online marketing workshops, webinars on best practice case studies in e-marketing, expert speaker presentations and exclusive access to resources and materials to enable them to stay ahead of the digital economy.

For more information on the Digital Destinations project please visit http://www.budigitalhub.com/