School of Tourism’s first Health and Tourism Café

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This week the School of Tourism hosted their first Health and Tourism Ideas Café at the EBC in Bournemouth.

Guests were invited to come along for a free lunch and to hear debates on the role of health within the Tourism industry.

The Café was moderated by Dr Heather Hartwell titled ‘Healthy Tourism an Oxymoron?’. The presenters included Prof Adele Ladkin from the School of Tourism, Dr Ann Hemingway from School of Health and Social Care and Mark Smith, the Director of Bournemouth Tourism, who talked about the National Coastal Project.

After hearing each presentation the guests debated over the different subjects. One clear outcome from the café was the need for university to share their research with industry more widely.

The Café was a great success and there are already plans to duplicate the Café in different locations such as Weymouth so that more people can attend.

If you would like any information on the Café please email hhartwell@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr. Jeff Bray contributes to a debate on BBC radio into the impact of counterfeit products on UK consumers and retailers.

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Dr. Jeff Bray from our Retail Management team contributed today to a debate on BBC radio into the impact of counterfeit products on UK consumers and retailers.

The discussion was triggered by the seizure of a large shipment of counterfeit clothing and jewellery at Southampton docks at the weekend.

Dr. Bray identified that it is estimated that some £100bn of counterfeit trade occurs each year & while some consumers may see an opportunity to to find a bargain, counterfeit goods are often of poorer quality and possibly even dangerous having not been subjected to the legislative controls that legitimate goods will have.

They evade normal taxes, and can inflict significant damage to the value of the brands that they are copying.  While it is big business, efforts to detect and catch the import of counterfeit goods has been stepped up in recent years leading to record seizures.

An opportunity for PhD and Master Students to present your research!

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 E-poster presentations at

The International Conference on Events

Making Waves ICE2013

The e-poster conference is a great opportunity for PhD and Master Students to present their research to scholars and practitioners at The International Conference on Events (ICE2013) and 10th AEME Forum taking place 3-5 July at Bournemouth University.

Please submit your proposals under one of the following themes:

•      Making waves – transformational power; mega & major events; social media & technology; employment & careers; ISO20121

•      Riding the waves – Experiential events, learning & research; hyper real experiences; festivity; rituals & rules

•      Challenging the waves – policy & practice; creativity & design; discourses & narrative; imagination & dreamscapes

•      Working the waves – Business Events; professionalisation; the revised purple guide; security; knowledge transfer; imagery, symbols & semiotics

•      Create a new wave by proposing original ideas or concepts not covered above.

 

Guidelines for submission

Contact details of authors and co-authors (postal address, email, telephone, and fax numbers)

Contact details of dissertation supervisor if applicable

Presentation title and abstract

Abstracts should be between 400-500 words (not counting references, which should follow Harvard style)

Font size: Arial 11; Line space: 1.5; and Justified

 

Please submit your e-poster abstract/proposal to Maria Nas enas@bournemouth.ac.uk

E-poster submission deadline: Friday 25 January 2013

Confirmation of e-poster acceptance: Friday 8 February 2013

Please note all abstracts will be reviewed and authors will be notified of the outcome

For more information about the conference please have a look at Making Waves ICE2013

Tesco learns the hard way to earn £672m!

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So this morning the inevitable news that we have been waiting for for a long time…  Tesco is to launch a strategic review of their American ‘Fresh & Easy’ chain.  Let’s be clear, you don’t launch a strategic review to then carry on as normal; sale or closure will result.  And about time too I would say…  I have long been clear that their investment into America was ill conceived almost to the point of a dereliction of the senior managements duty to maximise shareholder value (that is their primary goal after all).

Tesco’s have invested some £1bn in developing the chain in a country that already has the most sophisticated retail sector in the world with the greatest degree of market saturation and very limited growth opportunities.  They would have done far better to invest this cash into developing markets that hold fewer competitors and greater growth opportunities –  what about Vietnam, Cambodia, further investment into India & China etc. etc.   Their withdrawal was inevitable to me from the very first day they arrived – & you’ll be thinking ‘it’s easy to say that now’, but if you read my posts on here from 8th May 2001, 9th June 2011, 31st August 2011 & 20th Feb 2012 you’ll see that I have, along with many market commentators, been consistently of this view.

The markets have responded positively to the news, Tesco’s share price has risen by 2.8% today so far representing a £673m rise in company value – clear investors like the move.  We’ll be here again though, corporate arrogance will lead to other bid strategic errors that will appear obvious to the outsider but senior management will be blinded by their egos.

 

Help the students competing in this year’s EMCUP

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Four final year Hospitality Management students have been chosen to represent Bournemouth University at this year’s EMCup.

The European Mise en Place Cup (EMCup) is an initiative of HotelloTOP and co-creator Mise en Place. The EMCup is a competition amongst International hotel management schools and was founded in 2009.  

In 2012 the competition already managed to bring together twenty European hotel management schools within the competition. The Bournemouth University team were commended by judges last year and this year’s team hope to do even better.

Bayan Taishybayeva, Umneya Al-kindi, Alexandra Schwartz and Rosemary Turner will be representing Bournemouth University this year at the competition.

This year the theme is “success is a moving target” and is based on the Cruise Industry. The students have to create a rumour around their brand, as well as writing a paper to present at the competition.

With that in mind, you can help the students by liking them on Facebook and following them on Twitter

For more information on the competition please see http://www.emcup.eu/

The Digital Destinations Project start their workshops with businesses and E-Marketing students

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This week the Digital Destinations project, that launched back in October (See here), started its seminars with businesses and students.

The aim of the project is to capture change in the adoption and use of digital technologies and to develop a strong, competitive local tourism economy. Through increased understanding and use of emerging digital technologies, tourism businesses will be in a position to increase their marketing and management effectiveness, and develop new products and services that will provide an enhanced experience for visitors to their destinations.

Each business is appointed a final year E-Marketing student who will eventually come up with an online marketing strategy for them.

This week saw the start of four seminars that each business will attend with their allocated student.

For More information on the project please contact ddp@bournemouth.ac.uk

Professor Adele Ladkin from the School of Tourism delivers Keynote address at the International Hospitality and Tourism Research Conference, Sörenberg, Switzerland

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Professor Adele Ladkin was an invited keynote speaker at the International Hospitality and Tourism Research Conference organised by the Hotel and Tourism Management Institute (HTMi) in Sörenberg, Switzerland.  The conference took place over two days in November 2012, with the first day being held in Luzern and the second day at the HTMi campus in Sörenberg.  The theme of the conference was ‘Preparing hospitality and tourism professionals for challenging and changing times’ which included two strands, 1) Learners, industry and educational institutions: together preparing for futures in hospitality and tourism and 2) The challenges of changing products and changing patterns of demand for hospitality and tourism.

Professor Ladkin’s speech was entitled ‘The people aspect of the tourism industry: current human resource trends and challenges’.  Dr. Ross Tinsley from HTMi opened the conference, and other keynotes were given by Professor Mike Osbourne, Professor of Adult and Lifelong learning from the University of Glasgow, And Mr. Yves Givel, Head of Performance and Talent Management, Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

The two days gave participants from academic, industry and HTMi students the opportunity to share ideas and participate in discussions.  Presentations by students were given on the second day of the conference, with hospitality and event management students taking part in the conference organization and facilitation.  Professor Ladkin says “human resources are an integral part of the tourism and hospitality industry and this was an excellent opportunity to learn about current issues and practices in developing people to work in the sectors”.

Dr Maharaj Vijay Reddy to assess the impact of the Japanese Tohoku Tsunami

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Taken from the BU Research Blog

Congratulations to Dr Maharaj Vijay Reddy from the School of Tourism who has received a small grant from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (GBSF) London for his pilot research on the impact of the Tohoku Pacific Tsunami.

The Tohoku Pacific earthquake (8.9 magnitude) and the tsunami that followed have had catastrophic impacts on Japan creating economic, nuclear and humanitarian crises in 2011. It has made detrimental impacts on the infrastructure, economy, environment, society and culture of North Eastern Japan. The forthcoming pilot project by Dr Reddy aims to explore the nature of the impact on the tourism industry of the North East Japan, identify local collaboration and the priorities for future in-depth research to benefit the socio-economic revival of the tourism dependent communities and local businesses in North East Japan.

Dr Reddy commented ‘the small grant from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation will hugely help me to investigate the Japanese tsunami impacts on tourism and develop local collaboration with researchers in Japan for in-depth research’. Dr Reddy is a member of BU’s Grants Academy and is an expert working on natural disasters. He has successfully conducted larger projects for international agencies including UNESCO HQ Paris on the 2004 Asian tsunami, the worst natural disaster in the recent history.

Hospitality Management Student Cara McElroy is named one of HOSPA’s Student Scholarship Winners

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From left to right: Gary Bacon, Director of the Scholarships’ sponsor Extegral Solutions Ltd; Kendra Dhakal, undergraduate in Hospitality Management at the University of West London; Cara McElroy,studying Hospitality Management at Bournemouth University; Bianca Ruxandra Anghel, undergraduate in Hospitality Business Management at University College Birmingham; Natalie Hassell, Revenue Management Analyst, De Vere Hotels; and Andreas Holmes-Berge, studying International Hospitality Management at Oxford Brookes University and HOSPA Chief Executive Carl Weldon

Last week it was announced that Hospitality Management Undergraduate student Cara McElroy was announced as one of HOSPA’s Student Scholarship Winners.

HOSPA (‘Hospitality Professionals Association’ for Finance, Revenue Management and IT) is a non-profit educational organisation which has evolved from BAHA (British Association of Hospitality Accountants) which was formed in 1969.  The aim of HOSPA is to bring together those hospitality industry professionals involved in Financial Management, Revenue Management and IT.

Cara joins students from Oxford Brookes University, University College Birmingham and the University of West London who were also announced as winners.

All the 2012 HOSPA scholarship winners won the opportunity to learn from, be noticed and publicly recognised at yesterday’s prestigious annual HOSPACE 2012 Conference and Exhibition. In addition, they attended the HOSPACE 2012 Gala Dinner and will be profiled in HOSPA’s monthly magazine ‘The Overview’.

Commenting on the scholarships, HOSPA Chief Executive Carl Weldon said: “Many congratulations to our award winners. The HOSPA Career Investment Scholarships confirm HOSPA’s commitment to the future of the Industry, and those about to enter the profession. We are greatly indebted to Extegral Solutions Ltd. for sponsoring these awards.”

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.