Students play tourism game

Island business degree students have been playing games - practicing running sustainable tourism companies.

University College Isle of Man students pitched ideas for a fictional business in Africa, with 70 battling it out to win money from fictional investors.

70 students took part, with a panel of judges including Treasury Minister Alf Cannan, Chair of Douglas Chamber Employment and Skills committee Caren Pegg and local entrepreneur Rob Storey.

Programme Leader Pippa Edmonds says the event was an invaluable opportunity for students to build experience of doing real business.