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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…]

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…]

Seaside towns and Local Enterprise Partnerships

December 8, 2010

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This is a copy of a presentation that myself and a colleague, Samantha Chaperon, were due to give at the ATHE 2010 conference last week. Sadly the weather conspired against us, but the organisers have been kind enough to let us submit the full paper for the proceedings, which I will post a link to… [Read more…]

Chris Harman 1942-2009

November 10, 2009

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This is a recording of Chris Harman, the influential British Marxist and SWP activist who died suddenly this weekend in Egypt, speaking at Marxism 2009  in the summer.  Chris will be greatly missed by the left for his activism and inspiration.   You can read a tribute to Chris written by Alex Callinicos by clicking… [Read more…]

Hey big spender!

July 30, 2009

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Will Hutton is interviewed about the economic crisis in this week’s Big Issue magazine. Despite Hutton’s position in the mainstream media as a bit of a maverick, he normally makes quite conservative predictions about economic and social matters, trumpeting the rise of China or promoting economic / managerial approaches to social and cultural change. As… [Read more…]

David Harvey ‘The Crisis Today’ @ Marxism 2009

July 7, 2009

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By far the best thing I saw at the conference and an insightful, challenging analysis of the next steps in the crisis in which David Harvey presents a new model of restructuring around seven ‘moments’ that offers an opportunity to the left for a reconceptualisation of it’s approach.

South East tourism and the economic crisis – TV update

March 23, 2009

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You can view the report on the BBC Politics Show South East about tourism and the economic crisis by clicking here.  The link will open up theshow in the  BBC iPlayer.  The whole article starts 30 minutes in and I am interviewed along with two other contributors from 38 minutes.

TV appearance – Sunday 22nd March, BBC Politics Show

March 20, 2009

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I’ll be appearing on the BBC’s Politics Show, in the south-east section this Sunday.  I’ll be talking about the impact of the economic crisis on tourism in the south-east region of the UK.  For those of you not able to watch it between 12.30 and 12.50 on Sunday, you can view it on the BBC… [Read more…]

WTTC Economic Impact 2009 study published

March 19, 2009

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The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has just published its annual economic analysis, looking forward to 2009.    After four years or strong growth, the WTTC are predicting that the global tourism economy will contract by 3.9% in 2009 and that will only expand by 0.3% in 2010.   Long term, the WTTC still forecasts strong… [Read more…]

Arcades and Promenades

March 10, 2009

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Along with Wesley Rykalski, I have just embarked on an online project that seeks to examine the role of the seaside promenade in the imagination and practices of late modernity, through a critical encounter with Walter Benjamin‘s ‘The Arcades Project’.   In his final project, Benjamin was attempting to critique the ‘bourgeois experience of nineteenth century… [Read more…]

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