The Travel Foundation

Universities & Research Organisations

• The International Centre for Responsible Tourism

  The International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT) team is based at Leeds Metropolitan University and provides teaching, consultancy and research services across a wide range of sectors and disciplines.  Team members have worked on every continent, advising clients including all of the main international donor agencies; national, regional and local governments; multi-national corporations and locally-owned businesses, NGOs and community groups. Our skills and services cover five main areas of responsible tourism: Planning; Business Support; Training and Mentoring; Marketing; Evaluation and Monitoring.  Graduates from our internationally respected MSc programme can be found in key industry positions around the world.  For more information, see www.icrtourism.org.

• The University of Gloucestershire

  The University of Gloucestershire’s commitment to sustainability has led them to be acknowledged formally as a sector leader. They were ranked as No.1 in the Green People and Planet League of Universities (2008) and awarded a Green Gown for Continuous Improvement (2008). The University of Gloucestershire’s Students’ Union has been Awarded a Gold Green Impact Award (2011) by the National Union of Students. It is a really important agenda for them, particularly in terms of embedding sustainability into the curriculum, and they are constantly seeking to improve their contribution. Angela Kalisch is Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management. She is involved in consultancy, research, and knowledge transfer on Sustainable Tourism and Corporate Social Responsibility and has worked closely with the tourism industry on those issues.

• The University of Wales Aberystwyth

  The University of Wales Aberystwyth was founded in 1872 and was the first university institution to be established in Wales. Today, it has over 7,000 registered students, including over 1,100 postgraduates across eighteen academic departments. The institution is committed to developing its reputation as a provider of high quality teaching and excellence in research. It aims to fulfill its special responsibility for the educational needs of Wales and to maintain and develop partnerships with industry and other institutions both within Wales and beyond.