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Thanks for being a part of the 2009 Professional Development Symposium! The event was a big hit, and we welcomed not only current RIT students, but students from community colleges all over the state.
Below are some of the presentations, videos and links used by the presenters during the Symposium - feel free to share these with your students and classmates.
Bill Myers, "The Greening of the Service Industry"
Professor Myers discussed how green initiatives are changing the hospitality industry, from lodging to restaurants to air travel and beyond. With looks at how companies are currently practicing environmentally sound initiatives and what new technology is coming to shape the hospitality landscape, this presentation showcases the present and future of the service industry.
Greening of the Service Industry - PDF - click here
Ally Mead, "Professional Event Planning"
Ally Mead, who has been an event planner in almost any venue you can imagine - independent, entertainment, academic, social, corporate, medical and more. She shared her experience in getting into the meeting and event planning field, stressing approaching the field with an open mind and creativity. Her presentation is loaded with links, keywords and tips for landing a job in the event/meeting planning field.
Professional Event Planning - PDF - click here
Therese Hannigan, "New Media in the Hospitality Industry
Therese Hannigan is the founder and owner of Dumbwaiter Design, a local design studio for all forms of media. She and her company have worked with Garth Fagan Dance, Wegmans, the Golisano Foundation and RIT. As a professor of New Media at RIT, Prof. Hannigan discusses the impact of design on various industries on a daily basis.
With her work with the New York Wine and Culinary Center website, Prof. Hannigan demonstrated at the symposium the impact of design and social media on the hospitality industry, including using viral marketing and using the web not just as a marketing tool, but as a way to interface with guests.
Her work, and more about her design studio, can be seen at Dumbwaiter Design.
Jeff Christiano, "The Fifty-Mile Meal"
Jeff Christiano is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and currently the Culinary Arts Director at East High School. He also is a featured chef at the New York Wine and Culinary Center.
Mr. Christiano is what he calls a "locavore": someone who eats, cooks with, and loves local ingredients of all kinds. Why is he a locavore? As a chef, he chooses local ingredients to guarantee the freshest, best tasting ingredients possible. But choosing local ingredients has other benefits: it's green. Shipping ingredients from across the world (for example delivering Washington apples to New York) has environmental impact from the emissions from the shipping process, from the preservatives used to keep those foods fresh, and impact the local economy by taking business from local farmers. Find out more of how you can be a locavore in your personal life and how you can take those same skills and translate to a career in hospitality.
Aubrey Hale & Don Hudspeth, "Hospitality Worldview"
Don Hudspeth is the dean of the American College of Management and Technology in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Aubrey Hale is a graduate assistant in the RIT Study Abroad office and, as a student, studied in Croatia during her senior year at RIT. Together they shared their experiences, working with students and as a student, and how those experience shape careers in the hospitality and tourism fields.
But a large portion of studying abroad is not just in the classroom, as evident by the adventures of the RIT students in the video below:
For more information on Study Abroad, visit the RIT Study Abroad website.
