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Tourism 16/01/25

How to Choose the Best Social Media Platform for Your Business

This informal CPD article, ‘How to Choose the Best Social Media Platform for Your Business’, was provided by Alt Marketing School, a modern marketing school for marketers who want to do marketing differently and advance their career along the way.

Tourism 10/10/24

Best practices for setting up a customer awards program

This informal CPD article ‘Best practices for setting up a customer awards program’ was provided by Product Marketing Alliance, a company founded in 2019 with a mission of uniting product marketers across the globe.

Tourism 24/07/24

Energy Efficiency is the Key to Greater Accommodation - Here's Why

This informal CPD article, ‘Energy Efficiency is the Key to Greater Accommodation - Here’s Why’, was provided by The Squa.re, a tech-enabled global accommodations company providing corporate and luxury serviced apartments in every major gateway city across the world.

Tourism 25/01/23

International Language Tours

This informal CPD article on International Language Tours was provided by Xcursion, a risk management training provider focused on school excursion & activity safety. Immersive school travel experiences in other countries are really the only way to truly develop language skills. School language tours can provide a huge variety of benefits for students as they get to immerse themselves in a different culture and learn through first-hand experiences the culture, hear the language around them and interact with native speakers - all of which can never really be achieved in a classroom. This helps students gain a far deeper understanding and appreciation of the world around them and quickly build their language skills.

Tourism 25/10/22

Boost your career prospects by learning another language

This informal CPD article Boost your career prospects by learning another language was provided by Learn French with Alexa, Online Language education and teaching content of the highest quality, ensuring that our students achieve their desired goals.

Tourism 03/10/22

Why it's never too late to learn a new language

This informal CPD article on Why it's never too late to learn a new language was provided by Learn French with Alexa, Online Language education and teaching content of the highest quality, ensuring that our students achieve their desired goals.

Tourism 01/05/22

CPD tips - Courses that can take you abroad

For a long time, travelling and working abroad have been off the cards for us all, but now, the world is opening back up, and the places we love are back at our fingertips. Working whilst travelling can be a great way to keep busy and earn extra cash so that your adventures can last even longer! Whether you want to throw yourself into work in the place you’re staying, or you’d like to work online (freelance) to fund you further, specific courses can help you land jobs that go hand-in-hand with a bit of wanderlust!

Tourism 29/03/22

Will ISO 22483 Help the Hotel Industry amid Covid-19 Pandemic?

This informal CPD article Will ISO 22483 Help the Hotel Industry amid Covid-19 Pandemic was provided by Punyam Academy, an industry leader in training of international compliance standards.

Tourism 10/08/21

How Teaching A Foreign Language Can Enrich Your Own Life

This informal CPD article How Teaching A Foreign Language Can Enrich Your Own Life was provided by Centre of Excellence, a worldwide online training provider.

Tourism 03/08/21

CPD - Online Photography Courses

In recent times, there has been a notable rise in individuals engaging with hobbies, both exploring new ones and enjoying familiar interests. Photography, in particular, has seen increased popularity due to its versatility across various fields such as culinary, fashion, and interior design, driven by the widespread use of visual social media platforms. The desire to capture and preserve memories remains strong, whether it involves documenting travels or everyday experiences. Photography continues to serve as a timeless medium for preserving and revisiting these cherished moments.

Tourism 16/12/20

3rd Party Travel Company Vetting

This informal CPD article 3rd Party Vetting was provided by David Gregory at Xcursion, a risk management training provider focused on school excursion & activity safety. Today we are going to look at third party providers. Third party providers are s

Overview of the Tourism Industry

Visits to the UK surpassed 34.3 million in 2014, with an average spend of £636 equating to a total spend of £21.8 billion for the UK economy. France, Germany and the US account for to 30% of all UK visitors and 27% of total tourism expenditure (VisitBritain, 2015).

Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors for UK employment, and is set to have total industry value of £257 billion by 2025. The tourism industry provides 3.1 million jobs to the UK economy which equates to 9.6% of total UK employment (Deloitte, 2013).

According to VisitBritain, in the 2014 Anholt GfK Nations Brand Index the UK retained 3rd place as a ‘nation brand’ behind Germany and the USA. Rankings cover 50 nations, including leading and emerging economies, and are produced by collating the views of 20,000 people around the world annually. The overall nation brand is made up of scores for six dimensions – Tourism, Culture, People, Immigration-Investment, Exports and Governance. Looking at the dimensions relevant for tourism the UK ranked 3rd out of 50 nations in terms of a ‘Tourism’ brand and 5th for ‘Culture’.

The Tourism Alliance states that the UK tourism industry has become the UK’s fifth largest export earner, with revenue from inbound tourism increasing by almost 30% since 2008. Domestic tourism has grown significantly with revenue increasing by 11% to £78bn from 2011 to 2014.

CPD in the Tourism Sector

Continuing Professional Development is central to the activities of the Tourism Management Institute (TMI) and that of the Tourism Society. TMI is committed to supporting individuals as tourism destination management professionals and recognises that good quality CPD is essential to ongoing effectiveness as a tourism professional.

The Institute of Hospitality requires members to participate in CPD to ensure they remain competent and knowledgeable professionals. Members are encouraged to keep a CPD record and those members looking to upgrade membership will have CPD activity taken into account when the upgrade is under consideration.

The Institute of Tourist Guiding describes Continuing Professional Development as the way to update and expand knowledge, and to further develop skills. The Institute believes it is essential that members undertake and keep a record of CPD to demonstrate commitment to sustaining assured levels of guiding competence.