The UK aims to charm China and London.cn launches London’s Mayor Boris Johnson has unveiled an official Chinese language website which is designed to showcase London as a tourist and study destination to China’s 600 million internet users, in a year when London is set to break records again for Chinese visitors. His visit coincided [...]
More young people are travelling abroad to learn a language, gain work experience and study, allowing them to stay longer at destinations and spend more than the average tourist, according to a global study on the youth travel sector. Young travellers represent 20% of the international tourism market, accounting for £138 billion of the £692 [...]
It’s official – the public have spoken and crowned Bournemouth as the Best UK Coastal Resort. The triumph was announced at the recent British Travel Awards held in London, with Bournemouth beating stiff competition from Looe, Cornwall and Tenby, Pembrokeshire, which received silver and bronze awards. The British Travel Awards are uniquely positioned to offer [...]
The new headquarters of ITTC – specialist teacher training centre in Bournemouth. Managing Director of BEET Language Centre and ITTC recently supplied the IEF with a review of how his institutions had fared in 2013: “The year has been a bit of a rollercoaster for us, as was last year with two ISI [...]
Intercultural Festival, EF Mexico-EF Bournemouth 2014 (I-QUF) EF International Language School Bournemouth is preparing to say “Hola y Bienvenidos” to the largest group ever to have studied at one of its schools. Approximately 900 Mexican Students and 90 Mexican Teachers will be coming to Bournemouth for 2 weeks (13th to the 27th of April) to [...]
The IEF is working with the National Coastal Tourism Academy (NCTA) to put on two events designed for host families in two identical presentations on 31st January and 5th February, 2014. The presentations are each entitled “Being a Host Family – Your questions answered.“ The purpose of each session is to help new host families [...]
White House Guardianships has been very honoured to receive the award for Services to Education in the 2015 Bournemouth Tourism Awards. Thank you to David Jones from ETC International College for accepting the award on our behalf. International education and language studies does so much to support Bournemouth, it has been a pleasure to contribute [...]