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Tourism and Local Economic Development in the UK

February 13, 2012

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 Recently, I’ve been working on this topic as part of my work with the Economic Development Resource Centre.  Below are a presentation I gave at an Inside Government event on the visitor economy and the paper that supports it, which was published in the proceedings of the 13th International Research and Practice Conference of the Russian State University… [Read more…]

The Future of UK Tourism: Developing the Visitor Economy

November 3, 2011

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I’ll be speaking at this Inside Government event on 7th December in London.  My talk will examine the links between economic development and tourism in the UK, in the context of the economic crisis.  Click on the image below to go straight to the event booking page which has a list of all the invited… [Read more…]

Volunteering and Events Management education

July 6, 2011

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This is the presentation that Charles Bladen and I gave at yesterday’s SHIFT 2011 conference at the University of Greenwich. It sets out some of the framework of ideas behind a research project that we are developing, in which we are taking a critical perpsective on the ethics and practicalities of voluneering by event management… [Read more…]

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…]

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!

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…]

Local Enterprise Partnerships and Seaside Towns: new paper

February 1, 2011

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Samantha Chaperon and I have had a paper accepted for a Regional Studies Association event on ‘Innovation Processes and Destination Development in Tourist Resorts’ that will be held in Östersund, Sweden from 30th March-1st April this year.  Our paper is titled ‘Local Enterprise Partnerships and Seaside Towns: an analysis of a framework for the governance… [Read more…]

Some advice for the government on their new tourism policy Pt. 2 – support for the tourism industry

January 18, 2011

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British governments operating under the neoliberal consensus of the last thirty years or so have avoided developing industrial policy, believing that it is not the job of governments to ‘pick winners’ (see the recent Forgemasters furore), but that markets will select those business and sectors most deserving of reward.  This approach has not been universal… [Read more…]

Some advice for the government on their new tourism policy pt.1

January 10, 2011

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There will be a new tourism policy launched by the UK government at some point in the next few months.  This will supersede ‘Winning: a strategy for 2012 and beyond’, an artefact of the previous administration, and will complement the new tourism framework that is being produced by Visit Britain.  You can see the Culture… [Read more…]

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