FEBRUARY • ISSUE 1
OTHER NEWS...
GROWTH PROGRAMME
Only two places remain for ITT’s senior manager leadership development course. All places are subsidised by £800 and qualifying companies could get a further £800 grant, reducing the total cost of this £2000 course, to just £400! Click here for further details.
UNIVERSITY
CHALLENGE
Although valuable research has been undertaken in other sectors, little has been documented about practice – especially good practice – in travel and tourism. The ITT Academic Chair, Professor Rhodri Thomas, will rectify this via this year’s ITT research project, by identifying cases where employers have adopted employment practices that offer flexibility to their employees while meeting
the needs of their business, whether they are large or small. If you feel that what your company does may be of interest to others, please email Rhodri at: r.thomas@leedsmet.ac.uk Remember, what you consider to be normal may be seen as radical by others! So, do please get it touch.
Research Nuggets
Summaries of new research nuggets have been added to the ITT website:
• Cabin crew training to control disruptive airline passenger behaviour:
A cause for tourism concern?
• Testing take-up of academic concepts in an influential commercial tourism publication.
• Human resources in tourism: Still waiting for change.
• Perceived quality and image: When all is not ‘rosy’.
Click here for more details.
THIS MONTH AT ITT...
Places are being snapped up fast for the ITT Conference, with nearly 300 registrations already confirmed! John Prescott will be our Off The Record speaker; he should be very entertaining given the promised revelations in his forthcoming autobiography! I was delighted when ITT members, including larger bodies such as the Co-op, took part in the consultation process for the new 14-19 Travel & Tourism Diplomas.
By so doing, we are ensuring the qualification takes the form we need
to ensure it offers value to the industry. Thank you to People 1st for including us in the consultations. Last month I attended the TW Group Globe Awards which was a very impressive event! But am I right in thinking that, in general, there are a few too many award ceremonies these days? Having said that, ‘The ITT Awards’ does have a nice to
ring to it…
Steven Freudmann F.Inst.T.T.
Chairman
ITT CONFERENCE
We have a number of confirmed industry speakers at the ITT Conference in Cyprus. There’ll be the chance to hear from new industry faces Keith Stanley, CEO of Stella Travel Services, Nick Hughes, CEO of Kuoni and Peter Owen, CEO of XL. Industry stalwarts such as Ian McCaig, David Dingle, Carol Marlow and Simon Johnson will also be speaking. Other speakers will be announced in future edITTions. For further information, click here.
Tourism Academics and Employers ConferenceS
ABTA, ITT and The Tourism Society are co-hosting two one-day conferences for Tourism Academics and Employers. The aim is to discuss how to ensure travel and tourism graduates qualify with suitable skills for the industry. The London conference will take place on March 17th (during British Tourism Week) at the De Vere West One. The Midlands conference will take place on June 30th at the Copthorne Birmingham. Click here for more details.
Co-hosted by: ABTA and The Tourism Society
Women in Travel Management
Gain a recognised qualification that develops your skills and knowledge in a new FREE course run by Training For Travel and ITT! Do six training workshops over six months and gain
a nationally recognised level 3 Management qualification.
We’re running two courses which start in March or May 2008.
Click here for more details.
In connection with Training for Travel
Odyssey Supper
Bookings are now open for the Odyssey Supper to be held on Thursday 3 April. The speaker will be Andrew Laurie, Managing Director of Stella Travel Services UK.
Click here for more details.
Sponsor: Tourism Ireland
AA SURVEY
AA Graduates is a brand new service which will place travel and tourism graduates into their first jobs free of charge! To complement the launch of this new service, AA would like you to complete its survey about graduate recruitment. Click here for more details.
