

The Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Network aims to encourage and broker the sharing of good learning and teaching practice across our subject areas of UK higher education.

As well as offering events and resources to help you with your teaching, HLST gives you opportunities to network with colleagues in other universities and to enhance your understanding of the national landscape of our subjects. HLST works with the relevant subject associations, professional bodies, Sector Skills Councils, the Higher Education Academy, the QAA and other bodies. By engaging with the work that HLST does, not only can you be informed about policy issues in our subject areas, you will also have an opportunity to influence policy.
Subject Associations
The Council for Hospitality Management Education - CHME
The Association for Tourism in Higher Education - ATHE
Leisure Studies Association - LSA
Association of Spa, Hairdressing and Beauty Thearpy
Association for Events Management Education - AEME
Institute of Consumer Sciences - (Website currently not working)
Consortium of Retail Universities - CRU
Professional Bodies
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences - BASES
The Institute for Sport, Parks and Leisure - ISPAL
Institute of Hospitality - IOH
Sector Skills Councils
There are 25 Sector Skills Councils nationally, HLST works with three of them:
SkillsActive - The Sector Skills Council for the Active Leisure and Learning Industry.
People 1st - The Sector Skills Council for the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism industries.
Skillsmart - The Sector Skills Council for Retail.