Sustainability News - March 2009

Dear all,
Welcome to the new issue of our newsletter. This issue covers a variety of areas from a report on MU students’ preferences about potential Master degrees in tourism and hospitality, to 9 predictions in the area of sustainable travel. Any comments or suggestions can be e-mailed to Xavier Matteucci (newsletter.contact@modul.ac.at). Your contribution is valuable. Thanks !

I. Does sustainability matter?

Halting climate change and conserving our natural world depends on us all making sure we live a more environmentally sensitive life and significantly changing the way we do business. Education plays a big role in our response to these issues. 91 Students from MODUL University Vienna
participated in a survey about prospective consecutive Master courses in tourism and hospitality at MUV. Despite the urgent issues that the tourism industry is confronted with, the results show that overall traditional management degrees are preferred to those with a sustainable development focus.

To the question “which of the following degree titles would you find most attractive?”, respondents by far favored Hospitality Management (81%) and Tourism Management (80%), followed by Tourism and Sustainable Development (61%), (see chart below).

II. Event

On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour - http://www.earthhour.org/

III. Tips about what you can do to save the environment

Everybody needs to buy home products and yes, it is possible to buy a wide range of products that will not damage our natural world! BUYING IS VOTING !

for more info see :

Austrian site : http://panda.at/
UK site : http://shop.wwf.org.uk/

IV. Sustainable Travel - Vision's 9 Predictions

Will the economic crisis dramatically change tourism architecture for the better ? READ 9 predictions for the ninth year of the millennium here : www.travelmole.com