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Business Travel and Tourism
Elderhostel has used university venues over a number of years, including: 䊉 䊉 䊉 䊉 䊉 䊉 䊉 䊉
Edinburgh University, Pollock Hall London School of Economics, Roseberg Hall University of Wales, Bangor, Friddoedd site Durham University York University Strathclyde University Stirling University Dundee University.
The organization use the universities to develop their schedules because they offer the benefits of everything being under one roof. The BUAC central referrals system and annual show allows Elderhostel staff to source new locations and sort out booking and organizational arrangements. Universities also offer Elderhostel a much more viable proposition compared to the cost at hotels. The use of different universities means that each programme that is developed is unique. Two examples of schedules that were based on universities are shown below:
Britain’s Art and Culture 䊉 䊉
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Action-packed days in Edinburgh, Bangor in North Wales and at the London School of Economics. Lectures about Edinburgh’s architecture, Scottish paining, the new Scottish Parliament, Celtic bards and harpers, life in Tudor-times Wales, and all about London’s Museums. Trips to Stirling Castle, St Andrews’ golf courses, Abbotsford House, Beaumaris and Bangor, Caernarfon Castle, Snowdonia, the British Museum in London – plus evenings packed with traditional entertainment.
Discovering Gardens 䊉
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Insights into how gardens and rural landscapes were created in medieval times, for the Italian Renaissance, and through the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Visits to Hampton Court, Sissinghurst Castle, Chipping Campden and the Cotswolds, Painswick Village and Gloucester Docks, Bath and Blenheim Palace Gardens. And lots more.
Source: News@buac