{"id":2901,"date":"2016-03-18T12:18:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2016-04-23T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:52:36","slug":"visitbritains-chairman-christopher-rodrigues-cbe-guest-lecture-on-great-britain-tourism-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/03\/18\/visitbritains-chairman-christopher-rodrigues-cbe-guest-lecture-on-great-britain-tourism-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"VisitBritain\u2019s Chairman, Christopher Rodrigues CBE guest lecture on Great Britain Tourism Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0It was a great privilege to welcome Christopher Rodriques Chairman of Visit Britain to the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University to talk about the Great Britain Tourism Strategy.<\/h2>\n<h2>Christopher delivered a fascinating lecture covering all aspects of tourism planning and development and had a very interesting discussion with our students as well as local tourism industry and the CoastalBID about tourism developments and future opportunities.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_Swwl9P9Bc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9816.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2922\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2922\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9816-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9816\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9816-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9816-768x512.jpg 768w, 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100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9900.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2931\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9900-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9900\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9900-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9900-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9900-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9900.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9994.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2932\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2932\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9994-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9994\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9994-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9994-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9994-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_9994.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Christopher\u00a0became Chairman of VisitBritain in January 2007. He has recently been appointed Chairman of the Port of London Authority (effective 1 January 2016) and\u00a0is also Chairman of Openwork LLP and The Almeida Theatre.\u00a0He is a Trustee of the National Trust and is a Vice Chairman of the World Travel and Tourism Council. In August 2013 he became the Chairman of the British Bobsleigh &amp; Skeleton Association.\u00a0His past experience includes time as President and Chief Executive of Visa International between 2004\u00a0&#8211; 2007\u00a0and Chief Executive of Thomas Cook between 1988\u00a0&#8211; 1996.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitbritain.org\/christopher-rodrigues-cbe\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.visitbritain.org\/christopher-rodrigues-cbe<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-V0a2ncMDpyw\/VsituJhEUuI\/AAAAAAAAKXU\/XpxQGd1e78o\/s1600\/Cristopher%2BRodriguesNew%2Bcopy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-V0a2ncMDpyw\/VsituJhEUuI\/AAAAAAAAKXU\/XpxQGd1e78o\/s640\/Cristopher%2BRodriguesNew%2Bcopy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0It was a great privilege to welcome Christopher Rodriques Chairman of Visit Britain to the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University to talk about the Great Britain Tourism Strategy. Christopher delivered a fascinating lecture covering all aspects of tourism planning and development and had a very interesting discussion with our students as well as&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/03\/18\/visitbritains-chairman-christopher-rodrigues-cbe-guest-lecture-on-great-britain-tourism-strategy\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about VisitBritain\u2019s Chairman, Christopher Rodrigues CBE guest lecture on Great Britain Tourism Strategy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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-2901","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\/2901","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}