Category: cultural regeneration
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Funded PhD Scholarship
With two of my colleagues at the University of Greenwich, we are offering a funded PhD scholarship to come and work with us, evaluating a major regeneration project over three years, in south-east London. You can view the full description, and find out about the application process here. If you’d like to contact me about […]
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Cultur WB
Last week, I was very pleased to be invited to speak at the launch of the Cultur WB network, in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Cultur WB is a new network to support the development of Cultural Tourism across the Western Balkans region that has been set up with ERASMUS+ funding in a project with partners […]
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Heritage, Tourism and Economic Development in Seaside Towns
Yesterday, I gave this presentation at a fascinating event at Turner Contemporary in Margate on local lists and the heritage sector. I was invited to speak by the Margate Neighbourhood Plan Forum and Margate Civic Society, about the relationship between heritage, tourism and economic development. This was great opportunity for me to return to Margate, […]
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A visit to Belgrade
Last week, Dr Samantha Chaperon and I, from the University of Greenwich, presented at the Belgrade Tourism Conference 2015, which was being held alongside the Belgrade Tourism Fair. We were invited to speak by Serbia4Youth, an amazing organisation who are working to present Serbia as a destination for young people from across Europe and beyond. Serbia4Youth brought […]
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Tourism, culture and economic development: The Tourism Symposium 2014
I’ll be speaking at the Tourism Society symposium in Liverpool on 3rd June 2014. This event is looking at the relationship between tourism, culture and economic development and has some fantastic contributors. The symposium runs over two days and is being held in the Merseyside Maritime Museum – you have to book and you can […]
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Cultural Tourism and Cultural Regeneration in Europe
Today, I gave a presentation at the IACSS 2013 conference in Istanbul. You can view the presentation below. It is based on a chapter I wrote recently for the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism. If you’re interested in reading the chapter and you don’t have access to it, please get in touch.
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Back the bid: East Kent City of Culture 2017
East Kent, the area that I grew up in and where I’ve spent most of my life, is bidding to become the UK City of Culture in 2017. This is an innovative, exciting attempt to bring together the areas of Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Thanet as a single ‘city’ for the bid. Over the […]
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Dreamland, tourism and the regeneration of Margate
This week, a battle has been taking place in the High Court over the future of the Dreamland theme park site in Margate, Kent. The Local Authority for Margate, Thanet District Council, has been granted a Compulsory Purchase Order for the site, because it wants to develop it in what it sees as the best […]
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Crossovers seed-funding competition 2013
Over the last few months in EDReC, we’ve been working with Arts Council England South-East on a project called Crossovers. The project aimed to explore new relationships between culture, tourism and economic development. In the Spring, we’ll be publishing a report on the ‘cultural visitor economy’ (CVE). We held a conference in September 2012 and one of […]
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Book review: Eventful Cities
I’ve just had a review of the book ‘Eventful Cities’ published in the journal Cultural Trends. This new book looks at the role that events play in the economies and cultural lives of cities. Provocatively, the authors suggest that we may be witnessing the disappearance of cultural policy and its replacement with cultural programming. You […]
Dr James Kennell 