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…]
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…]
June 3, 2011
Wesley Rykalski and I have had the abstract below accepted for the ATLAS 2011 conference in Valmeira, Latvia. The theme of the conference is ’Landscape and Tourism: a dualistic relationship”. Our plan for this paper is to take the methodology that we’ve been developing through the ‘Reading the Arcades / Reading the Promenades’ project over the last… [Read more…]
February 1, 2011
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…]
July 16, 2010
This is the presentation that I gave today at the Global Events Congress IV, in Leeds. It is a case study of the event experience and sustainability, based on the application of micro-ethnographic methods. The primary research was carried out by my colleague, Rebekah Sitz. The full paper from this study is published in the conference… [Read more…]
July 5, 2008
This is a slideshare version of the presentation I gave last Thursday at the ATLAS 2008 conference in Brighton, UK.
June 17, 2008
The Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University held a conference in April entitled “Creative Construct: building for culture and creativity”. The conference materials are now all available online here, where you can download presentations and papers from the event. This is a fantastic resource if you are interested in the… [Read more…]
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November 3, 2011
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