{"id":332,"date":"2011-11-08T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=332"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:41","slug":"bus-world-travel-market-2011-stand-praised-by-the-vice-chairman-of-the-world-travel-tourism-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/11\/08\/bus-world-travel-market-2011-stand-praised-by-the-vice-chairman-of-the-world-travel-tourism-council\/","title":{"rendered":"BU&#8217;s World Travel Market 2011 stand praised by the Vice-Chairman of the World Travel &amp; Tourism Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_335\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/11\/photo21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/11\/photo21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"421\" class=\"size-full wp-image-335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-Claude Baumgarten with members of the BU WTM team<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jean-Claude Baumgarten, Vice-Chairman of the World Travel &amp; Tourism Council, visited Bournemouth University&#8217;s stand at the World Travel Market on 8 November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He commented on the fact that BU is the only UK university to be involved with the WTM: &#8220;Bournemouth University has always had a keen interest in the travel industry. What I like about BU is that it is reaching out of academia and coming to the private sector in one of the biggest human activities in the world. After all travel and tourism is the ultimate service industry that needs talented individuals because people serve people. All parts of the industry that I am involved with need the knowledge from research in order to make the right decisions &#8211; with the kind of investment currently spent in tourism, knowledge is critical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_341\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/11\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/11\/photo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"421\" class=\"size-full wp-image-341\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-Claude Baumgarten with BU&#039;s Professor Dimitrios Buhalis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Claude Baumgarten, Vice-Chairman of the World Travel &amp; Tourism Council, visited Bournemouth University&#8217;s stand at the World Travel Market on 8 November 2011. He commented on the fact that BU is the only UK university to be involved with the WTM: &#8220;Bournemouth University has always had a keen interest in the travel industry. What I&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/11\/08\/bus-world-travel-market-2011-stand-praised-by-the-vice-chairman-of-the-world-travel-tourism-council\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about BU&#8217;s World Travel Market 2011 stand praised by the Vice-Chairman of the World Travel &amp; Tourism Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"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-332","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\/332","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\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}