Kate Walters graduated with a distinction for her MSc in Responsible Tourism Management, the first student to graduate from the ICRT at Leeds Met. Kate joins an alumni composed of graduates from Masters programmes at the Universities of Kent and Greenwich.

Kate achieved a distinction for her course work at Greenwich and for her Professional Report which she submitted to Leeds Met. Her report was the basis for the report No Water No Future - Tourism Drinking Destinations Dry which was published by World Travel on World Responsible Tourism Day in November 2007

At the same ceremony Karen Schwartz was awarded a PhD for her thesis on Sustainable Supply Chain Management in UK Tour Operations.