College students from three Better Victoria post-secondary faculties are set to assemble this week at a summit to debate how the tourism trade can higher deal with the results of local weather change and to alternate concepts on eco-friendly practices.

“The aim of this occasion is to encourage college students to see what’s taking place and the way they’ll contribute to the change relatively than simply speaking about it,” mentioned David Pritchard, chair of Camosun School’s Hospitality and Tourism Administration packages, in a Tuesday (Jan. 23) information launch.

The 2-day occasion, from Jan. 25 to Jan. 26, will convey collectively college students from Camosun, Vancouver Island College and Royal Roads College. It is going to be the second annual hospitality and tourism sustainability summit held for Victoria-area college students.

Final yr’s occasion drew about 75 college students, all from hospitality and tourism packages on the three faculties. Pritchard expects about 85 college students this yr.

The coed-centred occasion is designed to tag onto the IMPACT Sustainability Journey & Tourism convention happening in Victoria from Jan. 21 to 24.

This enables for college kids to attach with trade professionals on the town for the convention. IMPACT visitor Bob Sandford of the United Nations College Institute for Water Surroundings & Well being would be the keynote speaker on the pupil occasion.

Day One will likely be at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus, with Day Two on the Parkside Resort & Spa in downtown Victoria.

Parkside was chosen as a result of it being the primary Management in Power and Environmental Design-certified resort in Canada, in addition to having a Inexperienced Key eco-rating, which particularly acknowledges lodging amenities for environmental friendliness. and being carbon-neutral since 2020.

Parkside can also be managed by Camosun alumni Trina White.

“It’s so vital to bridge the educational within the classroom with sensible software, and it is a nice probability to assist help the educational,” White mentioned.

White will likely be on one in every of a number of panels on the occasion, which embrace a panel centered on the way forward for meals, one on accommodations, and one other on sustainability improvements.

Every panel will convey collectively the scholars with native Victoria enterprise leaders, including to the networking alternatives for college kids.

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