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…]
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…]
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…]
Our paper on seaside towns and local enterprise partnerships has just been published in the proceedings of the 2010 ATHE conference. Click here to go to the ATHE website where you order a copy of the proceedings. The abstract is below: Despite their huge popularity as holiday destinations, seaside towns have generally been under-researched. Existing… [Read more…]
I’ve just had this article published in the Journal of Town and City Management. The abstract is below. If you’d like to know more about this paper and don’t have access to read it online, please get in touch. “British seaside towns have been subject to numerous attempts at regeneration and rebranding since the collapse… [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
British governments operating under the neoliberal consensus of the last thirty years or so have avoided developing industrial policy, believing that it is not the job of governments to ‘pick winners’ (see the recent Forgemasters furore), but that markets will select those business and sectors most deserving of reward. This approach has not been universal… [Read more…]
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…]
Below you will find a call for papers for the Travel, Tourism and Art Session at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) to be held in London 31st August- 2nd September 2011 which some of you might find of interest. Travel, Tourism and Art Convenors: Tijana Rakić ( Edinburgh… [Read more…]
November 3, 2011
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