Tanya Bellingham oversees the quality, delivery and management of the events management degree curriculum at the National School of Business Management, Sri Lanka. From 2013 until recently she was a lecturer and programme manager for the events management degree at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Business School.
Her early career was spent abroad working as a bilingual secretary in Paris. Upon returning to the UK, she worked in the hospitality sector before moving into further education, becoming the Curriculum Lead for Tourism at Cornwall College both for Further and Higher Education. Part of her role included working with the Eden Project for over a decade, training employees in sustainable practice. Her work in tourism, customer service and sustainable tourism gained national recognition and her department was recognised as a Centre of Vocational Excellence (COVE), for its outstanding engagement with employers in the tourism and hospitality industries.
She has also worked closely with the South West Tourism Board and with Visit Devon as a Director at a time when organisations were beginning to engage with the sustainability agenda. She designed a number of training programmes raising awareness of environmental issues, advising on writing environmental policies and strategies and worked with more than 250 businesses, including hotels and restaurants, as part of a European Social Fund project. As a result of the training she developed for sustainable tourism in the United Kingdom she was invited to work the British Council running a project in South East Europe, developing similar training packages with the government in Montenegro.
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