{"id":3520,"date":"2016-06-21T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T09:59:23","slug":"msc-tourism-management-student-mathews-lambulira-wins-the-2016-pitch-challenge-by-santander-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/06\/21\/msc-tourism-management-student-mathews-lambulira-wins-the-2016-pitch-challenge-by-santander-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"MSc Tourism Management Student Mathews Lambulira wins the 2016 Pitch Challenge by Santander Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/06\/Santander-Pitch-Competition-Award-Presesentation-2-1-of-1-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3521 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/06\/Santander-Pitch-Competition-Award-Presesentation-2-1-of-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Santander Pitch Competition Award Presesentation 2 (1 of 1) copy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/06\/Santander-Pitch-Competition-Award-Presesentation-2-1-of-1-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/06\/Santander-Pitch-Competition-Award-Presesentation-2-1-of-1-copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>MSc Tourism Management Student Mathews Lambulira wins the 2016 Pitch Challenge by Santander Bank<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>The Pitch challenge is a competition for business ideas organised by Santander Bank. This year Santander invited Bournemouth University students from all programmes, both undergraduate and postgraduate to present their pitch to a panel of experts. Mathews has applied for the competition together with 29 other students. Along with 9 other students, they were then shortlisted to present their ideas to bank representatives and local business people at the AFC Bournemouth Vitality Stadium. Out of the 10 shortlisted students, Mathews and 4 other students were awarded the prize of \u00a31000 each for their innovative business ideas.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>Explaining his idea, Mathews says, \u201dMy business idea is to develop a Central Online Reservation System for all small and medium accommodation units in Malawi for Malawian customers. The system will enable domestic travellers to locate accommodation units, compare quality and prices, and book and confirm reservations using a mobile application\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSc Tourism Management Student Mathews Lambulira wins the 2016 Pitch Challenge by Santander Bank \u00a0 The Pitch challenge is a competition for business ideas organised by Santander Bank. This year Santander invited Bournemouth University students from all programmes, both undergraduate and postgraduate to present their pitch to a panel of experts. Mathews has applied for&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/06\/21\/msc-tourism-management-student-mathews-lambulira-wins-the-2016-pitch-challenge-by-santander-bank\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about MSc Tourism Management Student Mathews Lambulira wins the 2016 Pitch Challenge by Santander Bank<\/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":[255,164,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-student-experience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","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=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}