{"id":1548,"date":"2019-11-08T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2019-11-08T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:40:44","slug":"visit-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2019\/11\/08\/visit-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Visit Kent is a Destination Management Organisation whose mission is to promote Kent as a destination for day visits and short breaks.<\/p>\n<h2>About<\/h2>\n<p>Visit Kent is the Destination Management Organisation for the county whose mission is to promote Kent as an attractive destination for day visits and short breaks whilst enhancing the tourism industry, its businesses, people, infrastructure and product base. Tourism contributes \u00a33.6 billion to the Kent economy and supports more than 72,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Kent&#8217;s strategy focuses on marketing the Garden of England for 21st century, improving and developing the tourism product, supporting tourism business and improving the visitor welcome.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a day out in Kent, visit Visit Kent&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitkent.co.uk\/\">website<\/a>\u00a0for a range of ideas and destinations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1549 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/10\/botany-bay-landscape_low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/10\/botany-bay-landscape_low.jpg 850w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/10\/botany-bay-landscape_low-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/10\/botany-bay-landscape_low-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Rewards 2019-20<\/h2>\n<p>Visit Kent will be providing an internship covering digital marketing and content writing.<\/p>\n<h2>Case Study<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1406 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/09\/42638778_167781177443563_4463628406856089600_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/09\/42638778_167781177443563_4463628406856089600_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/09\/42638778_167781177443563_4463628406856089600_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/09\/42638778_167781177443563_4463628406856089600_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/09\/42638778_167781177443563_4463628406856089600_n-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/files\/2018\/09\/42638778_167781177443563_4463628406856089600_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2017-18, Caitlin Minter (School of Anthropology and Conservation) undertook an events management and marketing internship with Visit Kent, which led to her securing further employment with the company!<\/p>\n<p>You can read her story here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2018\/09\/25\/visit-kent-internship\/\">https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2018\/09\/25\/visit-kent-internship\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Kent is a Destination Management Organisation whose mission is to promote Kent as a destination for day visits and short breaks. About Visit Kent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2019\/11\/08\/visit-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44118,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}