{"id":2627,"date":"2015-05-01T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T09:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T09:10:27","slug":"alistair-turner-pr-director-for-britain-for-events-visits-event-management-students-at-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2015\/05\/01\/alistair-turner-pr-director-for-britain-for-events-visits-event-management-students-at-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Alistair Turner, PR Director for Britain for Events visits Event Management Students at BU."},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2015\/05\/Alistair-Turner-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2628\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2015\/05\/Alistair-Turner-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alistair Turner 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2015\/05\/Alistair-Turner-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2015\/05\/Alistair-Turner-2-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2015\/05\/Alistair-Turner-2.jpg 1533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Last Friday a guest speaker Alistair Turner, PR Director for Britain for Events Campaign, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessvisitsandeventspartnership.com\/\">BVEP<\/a> \u2013 Britain Visits and Events Partnership came to give a talk to our Event Management students.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mary Beth Gouthro, a Senior Lecturer In Events Management said:\u00a0 \u201cwe are very pleased to have Alistair Turner join us for a guest lecture on the heels of the recent release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessvisitsandeventspartnership.com\/news\/bvep-press-releases\/337-dcms-publishes-business-visits-and-events-strategy\">DCMS Business Visits and Events Strategy<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 This strategy is the first of its kind in that there hasn\u2019t been an overarching strategic approach to business events before, so as to develop domestic and\u00a0 international market opportunities.\u00a0 In addition, the strategy also acknowledges future governance, infrastructure and funding, visas and \u2018welcome from Britain\u2019 to international visitors, marketing and strategic partnerships.\u00a0 The strategy is also meant to play a key role in 2020 Export Drive, ie in optimising unique world events to boost UK exports.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key features of the strategy (and a first) is the creation of a Business Visits &amp; Events Board, made up of events industry representatives, government departments and agencies, under the auspices of the GREAT programme. The new board is tasked with identifying business opportunities and to win more events for Britain, and represents new resources for the events industry.<\/p>\n<p>Alistair plays a key role in its promoting its execution go forward and reflects progressive steps eg policy implications and further legitimisation of the events sector in UK.<\/p>\n<p>Alistair shared a great example for Britain bidding to host the Olympics 2012. If you haven&#8217;t seen the video yet you can view it here:<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/37241441\"> https:\/\/vimeo.com\/37241441<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday a guest speaker Alistair Turner, PR Director for Britain for Events Campaign, for BVEP \u2013 Britain Visits and Events Partnership came to give a talk to our Event Management students. Dr Mary Beth Gouthro, a Senior Lecturer In Events Management said:\u00a0 \u201cwe are very pleased to have Alistair Turner join us for a&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2015\/05\/01\/alistair-turner-pr-director-for-britain-for-events-visits-event-management-students-at-bu\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Alistair Turner, PR Director for Britain for Events visits Event Management Students at BU.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}