{"id":932,"date":"2012-11-23T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T09:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=932"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:12","slug":"tourism-management-graduate-stacey-smith-named-as-one-of-tomorrows-travel-leaders-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2012\/11\/23\/tourism-management-graduate-stacey-smith-named-as-one-of-tomorrows-travel-leaders-under-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Management graduate Stacey Smith named as one of Tomorrow\u2019s Travel Leaders under 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

Back in August, Tourism Management graduate Stacey Smith was nominated by Travel Trade Gazette as one of Tomorrow\u2019s Travel Leaders 30 Under 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although Stacey was only named in 30 Under 30 in a few months ago, she says it has already helped her network with key figures and other aspiring travel leaders. \u201cGetting your name out there internally and externally is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stacey Smith\u2019s rise from Bournemouth University Tourism Management undergraduate to top Complete Cruise Solution sales manager has been meteoric since joining as a reservations consultant in 2005. In that time she\u2019s won accolades including TTG trade marketing campaign of the year (2008) and CCS manager of the year (2011), and developed a reputation as one of cruise selling\u2019s sharpest young minds – all by the age of 29.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy role is to look at strategies to grow the cruise business with our travel agents on both a national and regional level. I drum down how we target people across the country in different ways,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n

Though she took the educational route to enter the tourism industry, she says talent develops in many ways. \u201cUniversity was the right choice for me, but I don\u2019t necessarily think it helped me get my foot in the door in cruise,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

Instead, Stacey suggests the only way to establish yourself is to \u201cput in as much as you want to take out,\u201d advice she learned from former manager Paul Ludlow, now the UK director of Princess Cruises. \u201cHe really taught me that no one is going to build your future for you, and you have to do that yourself,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Stacey\u2019s quotes are taken from her interview with TTG on the current climate of the cruise industry and can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in August, Tourism Management graduate Stacey Smith was nominated by Travel Trade Gazette as one of Tomorrow\u2019s Travel Leaders 30 Under 30. Although Stacey was only named in 30 Under 30 in a few months ago, she says it has already helped her network with key figures and other aspiring travel leaders. \u201cGetting your… Read more » about Tourism Management graduate Stacey Smith named as one of Tomorrow\u2019s Travel Leaders under 30<\/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":[24,135],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-school-of-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}