{"id":3750,"date":"2016-09-18T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T10:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:33:19","slug":"food-and-drink-and-tourism-at-bournemouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/09\/18\/food-and-drink-and-tourism-at-bournemouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Drink and Tourism at Bournemouth University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academics at Bournemouth University and its predecessors have always had an interest in Food and Drink. Today the main focus for this work is the University\u2019s Department of Tourism and Hospitality, with a team of 35 academic staff and over 1,000 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students, making it one of the biggest and most prolific departments of its type in the world.\u00a0Aspects of food and drink are studied in a wide range of contexts.\"ITT4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Currently Professor Heather Hartwell is leading a pan European project that aims to promote vegetable consumption among adolescents and the elderly. VeggiEAT is an industry-academic partnership led by the University, with European academic and industrial partners. The project is aimed at producing answers, amongst others, to that old question of how we get the kids to eat their greens.\u00a0Dr Sean Beer is leading research on the authenticity of food. Authenticity is an important idea in that there is often a price premium for products that are labelled authentic; but what does the word authentic mean. Sean\u2019s research with people living in Dorset has produced some surprising answers in a world where so few people actually cook, and eat with their friends and families.\u00a0Both the Heather and Sean\u2019s work featured in this year\u2019s very successful FoodBIZ conference, which brought together industry and academics to share findings from research and take ideas forward within the areas of food, health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

\"sean\"<\/a>Much of the University\u2019s food and drink teaching and research takes place within the broader context of the tourism and hospitality industries. Here Bournemouth academics work closely with key academic and industry professional bodies, for example hosting the Annual Hospitality Student Conference in London supported by speakers from companies such as Marriott International, Red Carnation Hotels, the Shangri-La Hotel, the Institute of Hospitality Management, Accor International, InterContinental Hotels and Whitbread Premier Inn.\u00a0Bournemouth graduates develop the capacity to be involved in the more analytical, developmental and strategic perspectives of the food industries and develop insights into the issues affecting these industries through access to things such as visiting speakers from Hilton International, Fairmont Hotels, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons and many more.<\/p>\n

They are proud of industry collaborations that enable them to cocreate best professional practice through constant interaction and engagement. As Head of Department Professor Dimitrios Buhalis indicated, \u201cWe are privileged to work in Bournemouth and Poole, a living tourism and hospitality lab as well as to work with local food companies. This enables our research and teaching to have great relevance and impact in the global marketplace as well as in Dorset and the South West England.\u201d<\/p>\n

The University would welcome your involvement, engagement and interaction. Please contact Professor Buhalis (www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academics at Bournemouth University and its predecessors have always had an interest in Food and Drink. Today the main focus for this work is the University\u2019s Department of Tourism and Hospitality, with a team of 35 academic staff and over 1,000 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students, making it one of the biggest and most prolific… Read more » about Food and Drink and Tourism at Bournemouth University<\/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":[255,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}