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…]
August 10, 2011
UPDATE: The flyer for the event is below: click on the image to get the full version and for a link to booking: I’ll be giving a talk at the University of Greenwich on 8th December 2011, on the tourism legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. The talk… [Read more…]
February 15, 2011
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…]
January 10, 2011
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…]
January 14, 2010
My review of Poynter & MacRury’s edited collection ‘Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London’ has just been published in this month’s edition of New Start Magazine, a publication for the regeneration sector. “Like all pre-games publications, this text suffers from the problem of grappling with an event that is yet to happen, in… [Read more…]
November 12, 2009
Along with two colleagues, Elizabeth Booth and Charles Bladen, I have edited a collection of papers from our Olympic Legacy conference held last year at the University of Greenwich. The collection contains seven substantial, refereed papers on Olympic legacy issues, including information about London 2012, Beijing 2008, Torino 2006, the Cultural Olympiad, volunteering and an… [Read more…]
March 2, 2009
An article that I have written with a colleague has just been published in the journal Cultural Trends. You can view the article’s abstract by clicking here. You will need the appropriate permissions to read the full text. The article is based on a review of more than 50 documents from the grey literature relating… [Read more…]
January 18, 2009
You can view this report by clicking here. Key findings include the view that tourism has become so much a part of our way of life that holidaying as a practice will be little affected – only those most paranoid and / or impacted upon by the crisis are planning to change their holiday plans… [Read more…]
November 16, 2008
You can download the full paper that we gave at the ITSA conference in Shanghai by clicking here. You can also view our presentation below:
October 21, 2008
I will be giving a paper at the 2nd ITSA bi-annual conference on “Globalisation, mega-events and tourism”, 6-9th November in Shanghai. The paper is the latest output from the research I have been carrying out with a colleague, Nikki MacLeod, into the Cultural Olympiad of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In this paper, we… [Read more…]
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