Dr James Kennell
Tourism and Events Research
politics Category
Tourism Policy Research after COVID-19
Posted on January 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
My new article has just been published in the Skyline Business Journal, called ‘Tourism Policy Research after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reconsidering the Role of the State in Tourism’. The article is open-access, meaning anyone can read it. I argue that the decisions that governments around the world have taken to intervene in their tourism industries […]
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. […]
UK Tourism Policy – A Punctuated Equilibrium view
Posted on July 22, 2016 Leave a Comment
Based on our ongoing research into tourism policy in the UK, Dr Samantha Chaperon and I recently gave this presentation at the International Conference on Tourism in Naples, Italy. In our presentation, we present research where we tested the utility of the concept of punctuated equilibrium, for understanding recent changes in UK tourism policy. Punctuated […]
Policy Change and Tourism Policy in the United Kingdom
Posted on May 16, 2016 Leave a Comment
Along with Dr Samantha Chaperon, I have recently had a paper accepted for the 6th International Conference on Tourism, which is being held in Naples, Italy from 29th June to 2nd July this year. The paper builds on our earlier joint work on UK tourism policy, and my own work in this area. In our […]
Heritage, Tourism and Economic Development in Seaside Towns
Posted on March 18, 2015 3 Comments
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, […]
Tourism Policy in the UK – do we really need one?
Posted on February 9, 2015 Leave a Comment
Despite writing and teaching about tourism policy, I do sometimes wonder about whether we need tourism policy at all, at least in the UK. The classical arguments for why we need tourism policy are fairly convincing: The industry is incredibly complex and fragmented and benefits from structure and leadership; The environmental impacts of tourism require management; […]
UK Tourism Policy and the 2015 General Election
Posted on January 7, 2015 4 Comments
As the 2015 general election in the UK draws nearer, the tourism industry will look with interest to the manifestos of the major parties to see whether tourism gets a mention. Despite none of the parties mentioning tourism in their manifestos for the election in 2010, tourism was the subject of one of the first […]
Reducing Tourism VAT and the Route to Happiness – free talk at the University of Greenwich
Posted on November 25, 2013 Leave a Comment
On 11th December 2013, we’ve invited Graham Wason, the chairman of the campaign to cut Tourism VAT, to give a talk at the University of Greenwich. Graham Wason is Chairman of the Campaign for Reduced Tourism VAT, which urges UK Government to reduce VAT on visitor accommodation and attractions to 5%, arguing that this will make the UK more competitive with […]
An analysis of the UK Government’s tourism policy
Posted on July 11, 2013 Leave a Comment
We’ve just had this analysis published in the journal ‘Cultural Trends’. You can download the article from here. If you don’t have access, please contact me. The abstract is below, as well as a presentation of the article that we gave at the Tourism Trends and Advances in the 21st Century conference in Rhodes, earlier […]
UK Tourism Policy
Posted on May 31, 2013 Leave a Comment
Today, we gave a presentation of our analysis of the UK Government’s tourism policy at the University of the Aegean’s fith annual conference on tourism in Rhodes, Greece. You can view the presentation below. This presentation was based on this article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09548963.2013.819662#.UeGLScu9KK0
