tourism pic November 3, 2011
EM Intro cover September 29, 2011
Flyer for the event August 10, 2011
banksy cash machine July 6, 2011

Economic Insurgency – paper for the Future Cities 2011 conference

June 7, 2011

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Graham Symon and I have had an abstract accepted for a paper we will present at the Future Cities 2011 conference, being held in London on 15th & 16th December this year.  The paper builds on an idea that came from some work  on localism we were doing earlier in the year for the Economic… [Read more…]

Packaging liminality: the management and commodification of liminal landscapes in tourism

June 3, 2011

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Wesley Rykalski and I have had the abstract below accepted for the ATLAS 2011 conference in Valmeira, Latvia.  The theme of the conference is ’Landscape and Tourism: a dualistic relationship”.  Our plan for this paper is to take the methodology that we’ve been developing through the ‘Reading the Arcades / Reading the Promenades’ project over the last… [Read more…]

Seaside towns and Local Enterprise Partnerships: paper

May 23, 2011

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Our paper on seaside towns and local enterprise partnerships has just been published in the proceedings of the 2010 ATHE conference.  Click here to go to the ATHE website where you order a copy of the proceedings.  The abstract is below: Despite their huge popularity as holiday destinations, seaside towns have generally been under-researched. Existing… [Read more…]

Beyond angels, elephants, good intentions and red-nose rebellion

May 9, 2011

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Ixia , the public art think tank, have produced some great stuff on public art, and this event has the best name I’ve come across for an event in a long time. On top of all that, it’s free!

Rediscovering cultural tourism: cultural regeneration in seaside towns

February 24, 2011

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I’ve just had this article published in the Journal of Town and City Management. The abstract is below.  If you’d like to know more about this paper and don’t have access to read it online, please get in touch. “British seaside towns have been subject to numerous attempts at regeneration and rebranding since the collapse… [Read more…]

Some advice for the government on their new tourism policy Pt. 3 – it’s time to get over the Olympics and kick-start innovation

February 15, 2011

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When I started at the University of Greenwich in late 2005, I was asked a question in my interview about the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: “How do you think we should engage with 2012?”  Now, just 18 months before the opening ceremony, I’m asked the same question at meetings and events by university management,… [Read more…]

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