PLAN-IT ECO SPEAKER DELIVERS TUTORIAL TO TRAVEL AND TOURISM LEARNERS

Phil Williams, from Plan-It Eco, visited New College this week, to deliver a university-style tutorial to Travel and Tourism learners. He covered a range of topics, including the environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts of tourism to worldwide destinations.

Plan-It Eco runs a number of annual trips to the Amazon rainforest for teachers, people working in education and members of the business and media community. Plan-It Eco also assists schools in sending students out to the Amazon rainforest on educational trips. These trips bring many aspects of the national curriculum to life often with life changing results for those taking part.

Since the launch of Plan-It Eco in 1997, Phil has designed and presented over 7,500 programmes to over 650,000 people including workshops/seminars for businesses and local authorities, training days for teachers and interactive programmes to students/pupils and members of the public as well as being invited to be a guest speaker at conferences.

Travel and Tourism Lecturer, Nichola Williams, said: “Our learners gained a further understanding of the positive and negative impacts of tourism and how to manage these affectively - this will be particularly useful for their assessment in one of their units. Students also gained an awareness of the potential future within the travel and tourism industry.”