Plymouth University Tourism, Hospitality and Events

Staff meeting in lockdown

A lovely day at Saltram House studying heritage, film and literary tourism @ Saltram House

Yesterday our Events first years visited in London to see the huge variety of props available and to learn all about the events that they produce.
We even got to try out a bit of painting for prop design, and got to see one of our alumni .chubb :)

Safety and contingency planning with our MSc Tourism and Hospitality Management students at Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall. Thank you for a great training day

Safety and contingency planning training with the MSc Tourism and Hospitality students at Mount Edgcumbe and Survival Wisdom

Today Katrin Moore, one of our graduates, came back to for the spring careers fair. Katrin works as the Graduate Manager for Amaris Hospitality () and was looking for future graduates wanting to work in the hospitality industry.

Rong, our associate head of international & Tourism Lecturer managed to pop down to say hi too;)

Today we had the event at with some fantastic speakers and panel members from the Tourism industry telling us about their career journeys and giving advice to our students

Thanks to all who were part of the event and the ITT for running this great event for us.

Our speakers were

- Claire Steiner, ITT
- Stuart Heath, Visit Britain
- Fernando Ramos and Michael Long, Hotels.com
- Danny Waine, HHD and ITT

Our panel members:
- Regan Bailey,
- Mary Grose,
- Mark Lawther, Kernow Travel
- Natalie Semely, Trenance Cottages

Tonight we hosted the first TMI regional event with the topic of plastic use in the

Thank you to Amanda Lumney from and the for organising this brilliant event.

Thanks also to our speakers
- Professor Richard Thornton OBE, University of Plymouth
- Professor Sheela Agarwal (), University of Plymouth
- Roger Maslin, National Marine Aquarium ( )
- Victoria Ward, Researcher and University of Plymouth Alumni
- Jacque Young, Environment Plymouth

Today our foundation year students braved the weather and went on a guided tour of . They were learning about script writing for podcasts and vodcasts in preparation for their upcoming assignment