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Published today📷 SHTM's Dr @christyhehir research has been included as evidence within the @CommonsEAC new 'The UK and the Antarctic environment' report publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmse…

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 A huge congratulations to Harneet Singh Sachdev, proud Surrey Hospitality and Tourism Management alum, for being selected in the TTG 30 Under 30 (Class of 2025–26)! 👏🌍✈️ ttgmedia.com/30under30

✈️ Celebrating Excellence in Aviation 🌟 Huge congratulations to Dr Nadine Itani, Programme Lead for Air Transport Management, for being honoured as one of the most recognised women in aviation at the prestigious Airport Show in Dubai.

Join us for Digmy Exchange: Ideas in Motion — a vibrant morning of inspiration, collaboration, and fresh perspectives, where we celebrate the power of interdisciplinary thinking. 🗓 Date: 14th May 2025 🕙 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 📍 Location: online

Well done to all our first year students, Emma Harris and Amaya Seymour, who earned their ABTA sustainability certification in the final week of their sustainability modules with Christy Hehir. #iamABTA

Massive congratulations to our MSc International Events Management student Annie Hart who won this year’s UK Event Industry FastForward 15 Event Student Excellence award.

Practicing our VR handshakes. Our final year Event Innovations students visited the University’s 5G/6G Innovation Centre to discuss how coming soon technology could be immersed into the events sector. Christy Hehir Grace Poynter

A huge thank you to Debbie Marshall, the Managing Director of Silver Marketing Association, who is also an alumna of Surrey Hospitality and Tourism Management, for her informative and insightful guest lecture last Friday.

We had the great honour of welcoming Gregor Staunton, a distinguished SHTM alumnus, currently Group Learning & Development Manager at Signet Collection, to the Strategic Management (MANM042) module!

Sustainability in practice. Our 1st year event students teamed up with the University's central events team to devise new ways to make the University's events more sustainable. This was part of the Sustainability in Hospitality and Events Module, led by Dr Christy Hehir.

We’re incredibly proud of our ITM student at Surrey Hospitality and Tourism Management, Emma Harris, who’s been featured in this week’s Travel Weekly! travelweekly.co.uk/news/abta-hail…

Our students at Surrey Hospitality and Tourism Management had a brilliant opportunity to visit Ascot Racecourse! 🐎✨ It was a fantastic learning experience, with excellent teamwork and valuable insights into event operations, venue management, and behind-the-scenes planning.

🎓 Want to make a real difference at Surrey Hospitality and Tourism Management? Become a Course Rep and be the voice your classmates need! 🗣️ From shaping your course to making big changes happen — it all starts with you. 💬 Speak up. Be heard. Lead change.

We had the pleasure of welcoming Richard Freedman, Baggage Operations Safety Manager at Heathrow Airport, to speak to our Airport Operations students. A big thank you to Richard for an engaging and eye-opening session, and to Prof David Warnock-Smith for leading this module!

🎓✨ ALUMNI TALK ALERT! ✨🎓 Join us for an inspiring evening at our next Alumni Talk event! 📅 Date: Wednesday, 2nd April 🕕 Time: 18:00 📍 Location: The Lakeside Restaurant Network, reconnect, and gain valuable insights from our distinguished alumni.

🚀 Join us for an guest lecture! 🎤✨ Surrey Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Surrey is excited to welcome James Game, CEO & Chairman of Digital Media Technologies, for an insightful session.

🌍✨ Calling all future tourism, hospitality, transport & event leaders! ✨🌍 Join us at the ITT Future You Roadshow 2025 for an inspiring morning of career talks and networking with top industry professionals! 🎤🤝

Events in the Metaverse. Our final year students thinking outside the box and outside of this universe, designing future events during their Event Innovations module taught by James Kennell and Christy Hehir. #MetaverseEvents #FutureOfEvents #EventInnovation #NextGenCreators

🚀 Save the Date! 🚀 Join us for the ITT Future You Roadshow 2025, an exclusive annual event for SHTM students! 🌍✨ 📅 Date: 27th March 2025 (Thursday) ⏰ Time: 9 AM – 12 PM (LTG) 🎤 Industry speakers to be announced soon!

On 13th March, we had the honour of welcoming Ms Hui Xu, Area General Manager of Kew Green Hotel Group, to speak to our MSc students in Strategic Management of International Hotel Companies module.