Bournemouth University Bournemouth University used to be called Bournemouth College of Technology It was the first college in the UK to offer the HND in Tourism and it soon acquired a reputation as being the best college non university to study tourism 17 51 21 Mar 2005 UTC Tourists Bournemouth beach also hit the headlines in 1975 when the Daily Mirror ran an article about deck chair attendants sex and tourists According to the Mirror the way someone sat in a deck chair determined whetehr they were available for sex Tourists at the time were called grockles and innits nice here innit 17 51 21 Mar 2005 UTC