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Aims of the Centre
The Scottish Centre of Tourism (SCoT) is an applied centre of excellence which undertakes consultancy, research, tourism development education and human resource development. Our aims are to provide new knowledge or find new applications of theory for the tourism/hospitality industry with the objective that SCoT activities support Aberdeen Business School in terms of the postgraduate and undergraduate programmes.
The centre provides impartial expertise and comment on tourism issues of regional and national importance. The MSc International Tourism Management (validated in 2002) takes a management perspective and is the first masters to "share" management and specialist modules.
Research
The specialisms of SCoT are:
- Peripheral Areas
- Public Policy
- North East Scotland
- Qualitative research techniques
- Heritage Tourism
- Skills Shortage
- The Whisky Trail
- Event Management
Each of these have links into our three European Social Fund projects - Managing Tourism is the current live project. This follow-on project focuses on identifying skills gaps in tourism owner or manager profiles, and then producing innovative products to bridge these gaps.
Against this background we were delighted to participate as a partner in the Vocational Management Training for European Tourism (VocMat) project, as this important project has a strong link to our mission and activity. European wide collaboration, producing Masters level material for Tourism industry. Funded through Leonardo Da Vinci, European Commission (Education and Culture). Read more about VocMat
Contact
The Scottish Centre of Tourism (SCoT)
Aberdeen Business School
The Robert Gordon University
Garthdee Road
Aberdeen
AB10 7QE
Email: a.martin@rgu.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1224 263036
Fax: +44 (0)1224 263838
