Dr James Kennell
Tourism and Events Research
cultural tourism Category
Cultural tourism and the new silk roads
Posted on November 16, 2020 Leave a Comment
I recently gave a keynote speech at the 2020 World Culture and Tourism Forum in Xi’an, China. I spoke about the role that cultural tourism could play in the new Silk Road developments. In my presentation, I focused on how cultural tourism could form a part of the new ‘Silk Roads’ in the context of […]
Tourist motivations for small european cities
Posted on October 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
Our latest article has just been published in the journal Sustainability. It is open-access, meaning anyone can read it with no paywall. In the article, we propose a new fuzzy-logic model for analysing tourist motivations, which shows how they can change across different age groups. The research was carried out in Novi Sad, in Serbia, […]
Cultural Tourism during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Posted on May 12, 2020 Leave a Comment
I took part in a webinar on cultural tourism organised by MEKST this week, about the ways in which cultural tourism and cultural events are being affected by the Pandemic, and how this might be dealt with in the future. Also taking part were Nemanja Milenković, the Director of the Novi Sad European Capital of […]
Interpreting History Conference
Posted on August 11, 2019 Leave a Comment
On 19th September, I’ll be speaking at the Interpreting History conference at Alexandra Palace in London. This looks set to be an excellent event, with a focus on how to interpret historical sites and stories for visitors and tourists. I’ll be talking about dark tourism, and ways in which destinations can interpret their dark histories to […]
Dark Cities wins ‘Highly Commended’ Emerald Literati Award
Posted on August 8, 2019 Leave a Comment
Our recent paper on dark tourism, ‘Dark cities: a dark tourism index for Europe’s tourism cities, based on the analysis of DMO websites’ has been awarded a ‘highly commended’ award in the 2019 Emerald Literati awards. This means that the paper is free to download for the next six months. You can read the abstract […]
ROOTS Project Launch Event
Posted on March 18, 2019 Leave a Comment
Next month, I’ll be speaking at the launch event in Ireland of the ROOTS project, an EU-funded project that has the aim of supporting small businesses across Europe to take advantage of cultural tourism opportunities. Along with partners in Ireland, Romania, the U.K., Denmark and the Netherlands, we’ve been working together over the last eighteen […]
Cultur WB
Posted on October 29, 2018 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Sun, Sea and Shrines – Cultural Tourism in Phuket, Thailand
Posted on August 29, 2018 1 Comment
Our new paper on the diversification of tourism in the Thai island of Phuket has just been published in the journal Geographica Pannonica. This is an open access journal and so the paper is free to download and read – just click here to open the PDF. In the paper we look at the need for […]
Dark Tourism – Free public event in Greenwich – 4th May 2017
Posted on April 11, 2017 Leave a Comment
Through our Tourism Research Centre at the University of Greenwich, we’re hosting a free, public event on Dark Tourism, on 4th May. This will be from 5-7pm and will end with a guided walking tour of the dark history of our Old Royal Naval College campus in London. “Dark tourism can be defined as tourism […]
Conference: New Spaces in Cultural Tourism
Posted on March 31, 2017 Leave a Comment
Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality – CTTH 2017 is an International conference regarding research in tourism, leisure, hotel management and multidisciplinary studies such as events and meeting industry, entrepreneurship in hospitality, creative industries etc. I am on the Scientific Committee for this year’s event, the 17th in a successful series. Information about the conference from […]
