It’s been an exciting time!
Here we are at the end of another year in the School of Tourism and Hospitality at Royal Roads! It’s been an extremely intense and eventful fall term, with our incoming class in the BA International Hotel Management in a newly redesigned classroom, Margaret Doyle taking on an expanded role for industry liaison and internship coordination for the whole Faculty of Management, and Geoffrey Bird becoming Dr Geoffrey Bird. Geoff is presently leading a team of our MA students in a Parks Canada project in Quebec- a first for the School. Our diploma program in Jinhua, China, got off to a great start with Dr Nancy Chesworth teaching our first cohort of 85 students, and Adjunct Professor Rod Harris was inducted into the Canadian Tourism Hall of Fame. We’re looking forward to welcoming Rebecca Wilson-Mah who starts with us in January. She will be the program lead for the BA International Hotel Management.
We are presently posting the new BA Global Tourism Management curriculum for provincial review and the on-campus, full-time MA Tourism Management has been forwarded for Academic Council review. The Study Group two-year on campus curriculum has been approved and development work on courses starts in the new year. Already we have several Study Group students who have declared their intensions of enrolling in our undergraduate programs. I’ll be going to China and India in February 2012 to build more international programming , and Ted Wykes will be continuing his excellent work across Canada in college recruitment. A big thank you to all our Associate Faculty, who contribute so much to the success of our School, and to our great staff- Tanya Aindow, our Manager, Melody Andersson, MA Tourism program, and Kate Egan, BA Hotel Management program.
Finally- thanks to an outstanding group of BA and MA students and Alumni! You’re why we’re here, and your success makes all of us in the School really proud!
Very best wishes to all for the for the New Year–please stay in touch with us, we love to hear about your travels!
Brian White, Director, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
