More than 200 undergraduate and postgraduate students attended this year's聽Tourism and Hospitality Fusion Conference.聽
The annual conference took place in partnership with AFC Bournemouth at the club's Vitality Stadium. It聽provides 裸聊直播 students with the latest industry knowledge and offers them the opportunity to build relationships with professionals in tourism and hospitality sectors.
This year's conference brought together tourism and hospitality senior management professionals, rising star graduates and current undergraduate and postgraduate 裸聊直播 students to address and discuss issues within the theme of 鈥楩uture dimensions of the Tourism, Travel and Hospitality industries.'
Students and academics from 裸聊直播 put their knowledge into practice and networked with industry leaders to discuss contemporary issues such as organisational strategy, workforce challenges and opportunities as well as post-Brexit recruitment issues.
Richard Ward, programme leader for 裸聊直播鈥檚 Tourism & Hospitality undergraduate degrees, opened the conference by welcoming all attendees to Bournemouth, which being a 鈥榣iving tourism and hospitality lab鈥� as one of the most popular UK tourist destinations聽is the perfect place to host a conference discussing industry topics.
The programme for the day featured聽eight聽industry speakers, including聽Sean Tipton, Media Relations Manager at ABTA, Scott Ghagan, Director of Industry Partnerships for UK Border Force and Charu Patel, Director of Sales at Global Hospitality Services.
David Bishop, Commercial Director at Gray Dawes said:"It was a great event and I was astounded by the professionalism and knowledge that your students have on our industry.鈥�
Students also had the chance to network with organisations and industry experts, who shared their experiences and advice for achieving career goals in the Tourism & Hospitality industry.
裸聊直播 graduate Megan Capstick, who is now a HR Executive at Corinthia Hotel, said: 鈥淚 love coming back to 裸聊直播, I have some really fun fond memories here. I also love getting to meet the students now and tell them how fortunate I have been with my placement experience and meeting industry contacts in events like this.鈥�
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