Alan Machin: Tourism As Education

PHOTOS FROM THE FINAL YEARS' END OF COURSE CELEBRATION NOW ADDED

Click here for the End of Course photos 12 May 2008

Click here for important news from the International Centre for Responsible Tourism

New record!

Highest number of hits on these pages on one day: 3,613 on 14 April 2008. Previous highest: 3,081 on 1 October 2007. Number of individual visitors on 15 April 2008: 226.

Since being launched on 7 January 2005 there have been over a million hits and around 90,000 individual visitors.

Barcelona is a new - and very popular - destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. As an industrial city it's a long way away from the kind of beach holiday exemplified by the other Costas. One attraction that shows that to perfection is the new Museum of Catalonia - not 'of Spain' but of the province, which has its own identity including its language, and its own history. And it considers itself to be quite separate from the rest of the country in the sense that Scotland is a separate component of the UK.

Coming shortly - a photo-essay page about the city and its 'new tourism'.

Showcases: Towards a Theory of Attractions

New Page - The Environment As Data: Building New Theory For Tourism

Timelines: The Growth of Tourism as Education

We now have 165 Leeds Met University tourism management alumni with entries on the Alumni News page - see panel, left [original names for the misses turned mrs have been used].

Newly added are Claire Smith, Beate Novak, Joe Walker, Claire Pasquel, Hayley Beer, Steph Poerleau, Nick Paul, Emily Green, Rachael King, Lucy Mullins, Julia Whittle, Lucy Lee, Kathryn Turner, Amy Longmore, Sabrina Roberts, Rebecca Warsalee, Natalie Burke, Chris Furness, Mathew Wright, Tilly Johnston, Julie Mackin, Jenny Banyatsi, Nikki Straw, Sarah Bowie, Tomy Wadsworth, Becka Cordingley, Rebecca Lockwood, Jane McDiarmid, Sean Fuller, Cath Kelly, Jennie Harrop, Randolph Hamilton, Zara Goodwin, Kylie Dunn, Kelvin Shewry, Andy Kirkman, Kim Wilson, Anand Dattani, Cathy Buxton, Abbie Taylor, Lyndsey Cassidy, Lisa Davies, Kathleen Hughes, Louise Neville, Chloe Ross, Amy Coombes, Sally Dent, Helen Dover, Joanne Fox, Suzanne Williams, Laura Diver, Steven Hull, Lisa Losardo, Leigh Worthing, Ian Ward, Hannah Parry, Abby Hayes, Alice Jenkins, Peter Brooke, Ringo Cheung, James Devon, Russell Hay, Adonis Kekidakis, Marianna Kornilaki, Dimitra Tsagkaraki, Rachel Thomas, Katie Tucker-Peake, Simon Frank, Lucy Collier, Andreas Walmsley, Sophie Couch, Nicola Dawson, Louise Sams, Kelda Belcham, Ellie Elliott and Shaun Duff (also with a recent update).

Updates added for Steve Hull, Claire Heap, Sam O'Keefe, Carol Cavanagh, Mark Elliott, Giulio Pattanaro, Kelda Belcham, Hannah Harding, Libby Odell, Hannah Schumann, Clarine Kalogeraki, Mike Moss, Karla Hawke, Andreas Walmesley, Natasha Osborne, Sophie Couch, Jude Pigg, Andy Grundy, Vicky Hart, Teresa Downes, Ralli Jivkova, Erin Walsh, Mark Humphries and Andree Beuchner.

Click here for Alumni News

Below: a posting from a recent Idealog. These blog-style pages are packed with ideas, notes and comments around the subject of tourism as education.

At the moment no new Idealog pages are being added.

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This is a personal web site on tourism as education by Alan Machin, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

The Alumni News page (see the left-hand panel) contains photos and news from many Leeds Met Tourism Management alumni - including Simon, Paula, Chloe and Adonis above.

Alumni offering tourist services:

Elena Tooulia-Efstathiou is marketing manager for the Kefalos Beach Tourist Village and Damon Hotel in Paphos, Cyprus. She invites you to view the accommodation on their joint web site - click on the link below:

Elena's company web site for holidays in Cyrpus

Paul McCann runs a ski and snow boarding agency. To contact him - and book a holiday if you care to -

Click here to visit Paul's web site or send him a message

If you are a Leeds met Tourism Management alumnus and want to promote a charity project, a personal research project, or even to publicise your company or organisation's work, send me a message with details of what you want to do, with your phone number and address. The only condition is that you also send an entry about yourselffor the Alumni News page. This offer will be as an experiment and reviewed in due course. The message will appear on this page, the alumni page or any other of your choice. There is no charge but you must be an alumnus of a Leeds Met Tourism Management course.

If you are a LeedsMet graduate and want to advertise your organisation's activities, click here to send me an email to discuss ideas

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This web site was launched in January 2005 and has been heavily used by Leeds Met tourism alumni and others. The ALUMNI NEWS page is adding entries as they arrive.

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Photos by the author unless otherwise stated.

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This is a personal web site to complement my work lecturing at Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, where I have taught since 1992. Past and present students, or other interested persons, may want to access photos, graphics and associated text. If you want to comment on any of the writing, do send me an email - the pages are not just for Leeds Met alumni but anyone with an interest in the subjects. You can find information about who I am on the "About the Author" page at the end of the page list.

Pictures below: see "A Positive Role: Tourism As Education" and "The Educational Origins of Tourism" in the sidebar list to the left

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You might like to visit the Leeds Metropolitan University web site for information on its work, courses (including those for tourism, hospitality and events) and alumni activities. The University is set in an extremely popular city and region and has a vigorous expansion programme. Strong international links enable students at all levels to participate in a wide range of opportunities and staff are engaged in research and consultancy that furthers progress in its subject areas and supports their teaching.

Click here to be transferred to the Leeds Metropolitan University web site

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