International Centre for Responsible Tourism Doubles Capacity Seeks Four Senior Staff
The International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT) – the only research centre of its kind in Europe – is doubling its consultancy and teaching capacity by advertising four new senior research fellow and senior lecturer posts.
This research and consultancy body is led by Professor Harold Goodwin, Dr Xavier Font and Dr Janet Cochrane and will further strengthen the University’s position as a leading provider of tourism education and its work in responsible tourism, conservation and sustainable development.
As part of this centre, the university undertakes regional, national and international research and consultancy contracts including working with travel agents and tour operators to help them develop more sustainable ways of managing their businesses, and providing strategic recommendations to public sector agencies on how to develop sustainable tourism within specific destinations.
With five United Nations agencies in its client list, and working regularly for tour operators and destination governments, the ICRT positions itself as the strongest player in combining teaching, research and consultancy for responsible tourism worldwide. One of its latest contracts is with Visit Britain, who have entrusted ICRT with the process of accreditation of sustainable tourism certification programmes operating in England.
The ICRT offers two programmes, the MSc Responsible Tourism Management and from September 2008, the MSc Responsible Hospitality Management. Xavier Font Director of Studies at the ICRT says “our courses make a difference in the work place. For the cost of a short consultancy you can actually get a member of staff trained and support to implement your responsible tourism practices. The course is highly respected by industry forerunners, just last week two of our current students were appointed Sustainability Manager for TUI UK and Responsible tourism manager for The Adventure Companyâ€.
Tourism at Leeds Met has more than 400 students enrolled on undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. Part of the Leslie Silver International Faculty, the ICRT will establish a community of PhD students specialising in responsible tourism. At present 10 PhD students are researching aspects of responsible tourism as varied as corporate social responsibility, poverty alleviation, protected area management, ethical trading, sustainable supply chain management, responsible marketing and entrepreneurship.
David Hind, Tourism Subject Group Leader at Leeds Met reveals, “Leeds Met is now a global leader in responsible tourism. We want to use our expertise in this field to help tourist destinations throughout the world to benefit economically and socially from tourism whilst helping to reduce the environmental impacts of tourism.â€
The two new lecturers and two research fellows will be expected to have experience in climate change and tourism, entrepreneurship and tourism, environmental engineering, management for the accommodation sector and tourism planning and development.
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