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CHME 2019 – Transforming Hospitality
CHME 2019 – Transforming Hospitality 21 May – 24 May 2019 University of Greenwich, London Register now at 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 […]
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Dark Events
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 […]
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Sustainable Events and Historic Buildings
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 […]
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Sun, Sea and Shrines – Cultural Tourism in Phuket, Thailand
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 […]
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Call for Papers – Special Issue “Tourism, Governance and Sustainable Development”
With my colleague Professor Franciso Antonio dos Anjos, from Univesidade do Vale do Itajaí in Brazil, we are editing a special issue of the journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), on ‘Tourism, Governance and Sustainable Development’. You can read the full call for papers here, and find out more about the journal here. If you are […]
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Job opportunity: Lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Greenwich.
We have just advertised a new job in our department at the University of Greenwich. We’re hoping to recruit a new lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality to join our department of Marketing, Events and Tourism. Ideally, we’re looking for someone who can bring knowledge of marketing, entrepreneurship, business development and innovation to our team, but […]
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Tourism and Economic Development in Suffolk
This is the presentation that I gave last week, at the Suffolk Inside Out event in Ipswich. This excellent event was organised by Events Management students from University Campus Suffolk, who brought together some great speakers and delegates from Suffolk to discuss the development of tourism and the visitor economy in the region. The main […]
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Suffolk Inside Out
I’m very much looking forward to speaking at the Suffolk Inside Out event in Ipswich this Friday, which has been organised by University Campus Suffolk. The day focuses on the tourism industry in Suffolk and features speakers on topics from marketing strategy and cultural heritage tourism to financial stability. I’ll be speaking about the relationship […]
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My contribution to Serbian TV
I recently spoke at the MEKST 2015 conference in Novi Sad, Serbia. You can read my post about this here. During the event I was interviewed by Dusan Kristic from Radio Televizija Vojvodine for a programme that they made about the conference and you can view the programme below. It is 25 minutes long and also […]
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 8,000 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]
Dr James Kennell 