Travel & Tourism Diploma news

The launch is part of a free ‘ practitioner development’ day from sector skills councils, People 1st and GoSkills and includes specially developed guided tours, each one linked to the Diploma curriculum, and developed by the Guild of Registered Tourist guides. Participants can choose from: High and Mighty – the Buildings of Britain, England’s Green and Pleasant Land, Bricks and Slaughter – if Walls Could Talk, and Fish and Trips – Coastal Tour.

Participants will also receive a detailed industry information pack, covering industries across the scope of the Diploma. For further information contact John.Humphries@people1st.co.uk.

More employers champion the Diploma in Travel and Tourism.

Travel and tourism has been very fortunate to have enlisted the help of some well known industry figures as Diploma champions with more coming on board over the next few weeks!

So far the following have pledged their support:

• Tom Nutley, Reed Exhibitions
• Bill Gibbons, the Passenger Shipping Association
• David Curtis Brignell, Millenium Copthorne Hotels and chairman of The Tourism Society
• Clare Normanton, Eurostar
• Bill Maxwell, Resorthoppa and board director of the Institute of Travel and Tourism
• Chris Wales, Coach Tourism Council
• Tricia Handley, the Association of Women in Travel Executives
• Ande Soteri, The Institute of Travel and Tourism
• Philippa Owen, the Guild of Registered Tour Guides
• Julia Feuell, New Frontiers