{"id":601,"date":"2012-08-16T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T08:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=601"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:27","slug":"bournemouth-university-school-of-tourism-and-the-national-costal-tourism-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2012\/08\/16\/bournemouth-university-school-of-tourism-and-the-national-costal-tourism-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth University School of Tourism and the National Costal Tourism Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday 13th<\/sup> August Eric Pickles, MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced the allocation of a Coastal Communities Fund grant to the National Coastal Tourism Academy in Bournemouth. The grant of \u00a32 million will create the world\u2019s only specialist coastal tourism academy, with the aim to turn local expertise into knowledge to share with towns across the country and internationally.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth was chosen due to its unique position in the tourism industry. Eric Pickles said: \u201cWe want Bournemouth to be a catalyst in development. The town already has the infrastructure and resources like Bournemouth University specialising in tourism for this to be a success and to be able to communicate to struggling towns.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Pickles continued \u201cBournemouth is a lively and modern coastal resort, but the introduction of this unique and innovative academy could raise its status to one of global significance. Like all good ideas\u201d, I\u2019m astonished it hadn\u2019t been thought of before<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Alan Fyall, Dr Philip Alford and Dr Philip Long from the School of Tourism worked with Bournemouth Borough Council in\u00a0ensuring a strong and successful bid emerged.<\/p>\n

The School of Tourism will receive a large proportion of the grant and there will be many opportunities for School of Tourism staff to engage with the project, work with the local tourism sector and\u00a0generate data and research\u00a0for peer-review journal publications.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Under the Bournemouth and Poole Joint Tourism Management Board, the Academy will be a combined project involving Bournemouth University, Bournemouth County Council and members of the Poole and Bournemouth Tourism industry. In addition to the economic benefits, Dr Keith Wilkes, Dean of the School of Tourism at Bournemouth University has been celebrating the opportunities the project will bring: \u201cBournemouth will be host to the first specialist Coastal Tourism Academy anywhere in the world \u2013 reflecting Bournemouth\u2019s status as a major coastal tourism destination and the School of Tourism\u2019s national and international reputation as a centre of research excellence and major provider of tourism, hospitality and event management undergraduate and postgraduate education<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The National Coastal Tourism Academy is a ground breaking knowledge transfer institution, designed to accelerate tourism growth. The project shall be split into three growth initiatives: a Coastal Activity Park, a resort wide visitor experience programme and coastal tourism product research and development programme.\u00a0 Within the next few years, the National Coastal Tourism Academy will provide world-class educational and professional training to coastal tourism businesses, as well as producing a central sharing database and communications link for teams and individuals looking to expand their knowledge or businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday 13th August Eric Pickles, MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced the allocation of a Coastal Communities Fund grant to the National Coastal Tourism Academy in Bournemouth. The grant of \u00a32 million will create the world\u2019s only specialist coastal tourism academy, with the aim to turn local expertise into knowledge… Read more » about Bournemouth University School of Tourism and the National Costal Tourism Academy<\/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":[164,7],"tags":[23,24,35,110,135,387],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-coastal-communities-fund-grant","tag-national-costal-tourism-academy","tag-school-of-tourism","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}