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…]
March 19, 2009
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…]
March 10, 2009
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…]
March 5, 2009
Comedian / activist Mark Steel writes in the Independent yesterday about the resurgence of interest in Karl Marx that appears to be happening as the economic crisis gathers pace…. “Even Karl Marx himself is in vogue. Most papers have had articles about him in their business sections, commending his analysis of booms and slumps, and… [Read more…]
February 9, 2009
Over on the prospect magazine blog you can read a post on an essay from their latest edition titled “The Red Tory Moment” by Phillip Blond. This is an intentionally provocative article, putting forward the thesis that David Cameron can (and may be likely to) steer the Conservative party in the UK towards a more… [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…]
October 10, 2008
Bob Cotton OBE, the Chairman of the Tourism Alliance, has written a letter to British MPs today, calling for specific action to support the UK’s tourism industry during this period of economic crisis: “…What is needed now is a comprehensive strategy for UK tourism to market its way out of the present downturn. In 2002,… [Read more…]
October 8, 2008
In an MA class yesterday we were discussing some definitional frameworks for tourism and the tourism industry. A common misconception (although not one held by these students!) is that tourism is the world’s largest industry. You see this ‘fact’ repeated time and time again, but it does not really bear up to much scrutiny. Click… [Read more…]
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