News

Street Sounds like entertainment
Entertainment Management students had an exclusive insight into the music industry from the owner of Street Sounds record label, Morgan Khan.
Professor predicts future of travel package
Professor David Grant has delivered his inaugural lecture as our Vantage Visiting Professor of Travel Law.
Bill Maxwell made Leeds Met honorary doctorate
Bill Maxwell from the Institute of Travel & Tourism has been made an honorary doctorate of Leeds Metropolitan University.
Leeds Met announced first Centre of Excellence for Tourism
Leeds Metropolitan was recently announced as a Centre of Excellence for Tourism - the first University in the UK to be awarded this status.
Tourism question time
A question time session recently took place at Headingley campus which looked at how the tourism industry might develop in the next five years.
Leeds Met students visit The Gambia
In a recent field trip to The Gambia, students were introduced to the challenges and opportunities for the use of tourism in local economic development in one of the poorest countries in the world.
New Visiting Professor for Tourism
Tourism at Leeds Met has a new Visiting Professor, David Grant, who will bring his specialist expertise in the field of travel law to the University's tourism courses.
Entertainment Entrepreneur Coaching Programme
The Entertainment Entrepreneur Coaching Programme is a new and innovative practical education programme that will work in partnership with external entertainment related organisations.
Responsible Holiday Challenge 2009
Tourism at Leeds Met presented the two lucky winners from Prince Henry's Grammar School with this year's Responsible Holiday Challenge prize of a once-in-a-lifetime trip to The Gambia.
Graduates into Tourism
A recent conference at Leeds Met's Gandhi Hall provided the crucial stepping-stone for tourism students to make their first leap into the tourist industry.
New publication - The Entertainment Industry
Stuart Moss Lecturer in Entertainment Management has recently had his book ,The Entertainment Industry: An Introduction, published by CABI...
Entertainment Management students release their first EP
Entertainment Management students Russ Foster and Steffen Hagavei are to release an EP with their band 'We Don't Dance to Love Songs'.
Advances in Travel Philanthropy
A report commissioned by World Travel Market with the International Centre of Responsible Tourism (ICRT), will be a topic of discussion at this year's annual World Travel Market event...
Tourism Chairman awarded honorary degree
Chairman of Institute of Travel & Tourism, Steven Freudmann, was recently awarded an honorary degree by Leeds Met at the Leslie Silver International Faculty Graduation ceremony...
Progress & Pitfalls of Responsible Tourism
The International Centre for Responsible Tourism recently delivered a one-day conference which discussed the issues around the demand for responsible and sustainable tourism.
Disco Donkeys
Six Entertainment Management students are organising a club night to raise money for a donkey sanctuary in Devon...
Students Host an Evening with the First Lady of Jazz
Five level 2 Entertainment Management students celebrated an evening with the first lady of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald...

College Students Gain Life-Changing Experience in Africa
Four students from Hartlepool Further Education College got their first experience of University when they joined Leeds Met tourism and entertainment students on a field trip to The Gambia...
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Harold Goodwin
'Taking Responsibility for Tourism' was the topic of Professor Harold Goodwin's inaugural lecture recently delivered at Gandhi Hall, Headingley Campus.
Successful Start for ICRT's 2009 Conference Programme
More than 50 people including students, staff and colleagues from the industry attended a very successful one-day conference looking at the role of tourism in rural and urban regeneration.
New Tourism Courses Respond to Niche in Market
New level 3 top-up tourism degrees starting in September 2009 respond to the fast-growing demand for responsible tourism courses...
Sponsorship for Responsible Holiday Challenge
For the first time Thomas Cook Group and the Institute for Travel & Tourism will be sponsoring the 2009 Responsible Holiday Challenge...