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Travel, Tourism & Retail
The Services Sector (Travel, Tourism, Retail and Hospitality) represents one of the largest groups of industries within both the UK and Sussex. In 2005 there were 182,343 hospitality establishments in the UK. (‘Skills Needs Assessment for the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism sector’, final report January 2006, People 1st)
In recent years, the issues and challenges facing operators within these areas have increased in number and complexity, whilst simultaneously offering enormous potential for expansion. They include:
- increased regulation and accountability
- labour turnover in hospitality sector averages 30% at a cost of £886M environmental imperatives
- retail: supply chain management and social responsibility
- market domination and ‘corporate greed', death of the corner shop and increased specialisation
- equality of opportunity/management of diversity.
You can see more details of our work in the Practitioner Network Travel, Tourism & Retail update.
Peter Odgers - SLN Project Co-ordinator for Tourism, Hospitality & Retail
Peter is a curriculum lead for the Travel, Tourism & Retail curriculum area based at the University of Brighton.
He has particular expertise in the development of advanced-level programmes, and some of his work will focus on TTR sectoral needs at Masters level. In addition to a professional background in hospitality management, he has extensive experience of working in service management education within the further, private, and university sectors.
Peter has produced a number of publications relating to financial management and business strategy. Much of his current work within the University of Brighton relates to the development and management of overseas collaborative programmes with partner universities.
Email: p.odgers@brighton.ac.uk
Conor Sheehan - Curriculum Lead
Conor is a curriculum lead for the Travel, Tourism & Retail curriculum area based at the University of Brighton.
He has extensive experience of collaborative curriculum development on foundation and other undergraduate degrees for the service sectors. Much of his work will therefore focus on meeting regional needs at this level.
Conor also has wide experience of both further and higher education. His roles have included curriculum management responsibilities for FE level 3, foundation degrees and the final year of undergraduate programmes. He has been particularly active in the development of new foundation degree provision. He has also undertaken several HEFCE funded national research projects into foundation degree delivery which have now been published.
Before entering education, Conor’s industry background included senior management responsibilities within ‘blue-chip’ retail and hospitality organisations.
Email: c.sheehan@brighton.ac.uk
Julie Evans – Administrator
Julie is the administrator for the Travel, Tourism and Retail team based at the University of Brighton. She provides administrative support for the team, organises and facilitates at meetings and assists with organising events.
Before joining the SLN, Julie worked in a variety of sectors including HE, retail, legal, publishing, mail order and banking.
Julie can be contacted Monday to Wednesday
Email:je61@brighton.ac.uk
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