Citizenship in Hospitality, Tourism, Events, Sport and Leisure Management

11th Apr 2011 09:30 – 17:00

Conference brief

As Hospitality, Tourism, Events Sport, and Leisure (HTESL) management industries are led by staff service and encounter; profits are enabled by the employee’s soft skills for cultural awareness, social cohesion and entrepreneurial initiative. These soft skills also link to the citizenship behaviours noted in Organ’s (1988) Organisation Citizenship behaviour, thus enabling effective employment in not only HTESL areas, but a range of industries upon graduation. In mind of these employability skills within citizenship education this conference aims to give academics information and practical advice on what citizenship education is, how it can be used for employability skills for industry and how it links to current units taught.

This joint conference is aimed at lecturers and educators in the vocational areas of HTESL management. As a one day conference it will give attendees information on the following;
 Key notes from Dr Thomas Baum (Strathclyde) and Dr Doug Bourn (IoE),
 Interactive workshops on how Citizenship is used in HTESL,
 Staff and student research posters on citizenship for HTESL,
 Networking with other practitioners in Citizenship and Higher Education for HTESL,
 The JoHLST (https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/johlste/home) and AFHT (https://www.afht.org/) journals are supporting the conference, allowing attendees and academics to submit papers for the event.

Papers, posters and workshop submissions…
Posters will be promoted during the conference and papers will be submitted to the two supporting journals. Researchers are asked to submit paper, poster and workshop abstracts by 10th December 2010.

Guiding themes from across the HTESL management disciplines are required on Citizenship and ...
... Globalisation
... Sustainability
... Volunteers
... Employee Training
... Employee Engagement
... Employability.
Case studies of teaching Citizenship in HTESL management are also welcome from Secondary, College and Higher Education practitioners.

Times: 0930-1700hrs
Registration opening soon…There will also be an additional Dinner arranged for the evening.

To book your place or to submit an abstract please visit the conference website at www.hollings.mmu.ac.uk/citizenship If you have any queries please email [email protected] View this event on the EAUC website →