Dr James Kennell
Tourism and Events Research
events 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 […]
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 […]
Island Tourism Symposium
Posted on January 30, 2020 Leave a Comment
The Tourism Research Centre at the University of Greenwich, in partnership with the Observatory on Tourism for Island Economies (OTIE), is holding an afternoon symposium on island tourism, which will be held at our World Heritage Site campus in London on Friday 28th February 2020, 2pm-6pm. This event will be of interest to island tourism researchers, including postgraduate […]
Event Management in the Chinese Century: CFP
Posted on October 15, 2019 Leave a Comment
There are now revised timelines for submission – see end of this post With my colleague, Dr Mingguang Liu, from Zheijang International Studies University, we have just published a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Event Management on ‘Event Management in the Chinese Century’. You can read the full CFP here. […]
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 […]
CHME 2019 – Transforming Hospitality
Posted on January 23, 2019 Leave a Comment
CHME 2019 – Transforming Hospitality 21 May – 24 May 2019 University of Greenwich, London Register now at http://www.gre.ac.uk/CHME19 The University of Greenwich are delighted to be hosting the 28th annual conference of the Council for Hospitality Management and Education – ‘Transforming Hospitality’ which has a focus on how hospitality enables us to understand […]
Dark Events
Posted on January 4, 2019 Leave a Comment
My latest article, written together with two colleagues from Turistica in Slovenia, has just been published in the journal ‘Event Management’. The article brings together a lot of the ideas and concepts from dark tourism and puts them into a critical events studies context, to propose a classification for ‘dark events’ – events linked to […]
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 […]
Sustainable Events and Historic Buildings
Posted on October 25, 2018 Leave a Comment
Our new paper, ‘The Role of Sustainable Events in the Management of Historic Buildings’, has been published today in the journal Sustainability. This is an open-access journal, meaning that anyone can read and download the paper from here. As the use of historic building as venues for commercial activity grows, events management professionals working in historic […]
Moon Festival
Posted on July 13, 2018 Leave a Comment
I’ve recently become involved with a fantastic new festival, as part of their advisory board. Moon Festival is a unique multi-event festival, taking place now and culminating in events to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the moon landings in July 2019. Their really exciting programme, which celebrates the moon in ways involving different cultures, […]
