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…]
July 6, 2011
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…]
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…]
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…]
December 17, 2008
You can view all the presentations from the 2008 ITSA conference in Shanghai, including mine, by going to this web page. The theme of the conference was ‘Globalisation, mega events and urban tourism’ and there are a wealth of useful case studies, theoretical perspectives and non-western viewpoints on tourism and events available to download as powerpoint… [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…]
August 26, 2008
I was interviewed last week by a correspondent from Business Week - you can read the published article by clicking here.
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