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The Apprentice does seaside regeneration!
BBC1 show ‘The Apprentice’ is taking on the re-branding of Margate in Kent as one of the tasks for it’s contestants in the latest series, which started last night. Contestants will be tasked with designing a brand for the seaside town that can capture the town’s aspirations as a 21st century seaside destination.
South East tourism and the economic crisis – TV update
March 23, 2009
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
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 […]
WTTC Economic Impact 2009 study published
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 […]
Arcades and Promenades
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 […]
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