Dr James Kennell
Tourism and Events Research
urban tourism Category
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, […]
Overtourism vs. Undertourism
Posted on July 3, 2018 Leave a Comment
I gave the presentation below as a keynote at the 12th International Iguassu Tourism Forum, which was part of the Festival des Cataratas in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. In my presentation, I explained the origins of the term overtourism and showed how important it had become in the media for explaining the impacts of tourism. […]
A new Events Strategy for Visit Greenwich
Posted on May 9, 2018 Leave a Comment
Along with my colleague, Pamela Zigomo, we have just launched the new Events Strategy for the Royal Borough of Greenwich, following research that was commissioned by Visit Greenwich and the Royal Borough of Greenwich Council. The launch event was held at the University of Greenwich, and you can view all the presentations and the strategy […]
Dark Cities: A ranking of Europe’s top tourism cities in terms of dark tourism
Posted on March 15, 2018 Leave a Comment
With my colleagues Raymond Powell and Christopher Barton, we’ve just had a new paper published in the International Journal of Tourism Cities. In the paper, we analyse the content of the websites for the Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) of each of Europe’s top ten most visited cities. We carried out content analysis using key words […]
Urban Tourist Motivations: Why Visit Ljubljana?
Posted on January 16, 2018 Leave a Comment
Together with my colleagues Sanja Bozic, Miroslav Vujicic and Tamara Jovanovic from the University of Novi Sad, we have recently published an article in the International Journal of Tourism Cities that investigates urban tourists’ motivations for visiting Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. You can read the article here. If you would like to read it […]
Big Events in Small Destinations
Posted on November 6, 2017 Leave a Comment
I recently spoke at the 2nd annual International Conference for Students in Tourism and Gastronomy, in Skopje, Macedonia. My presentation was about how small tourism destinations, especially in emerging economies, can use major events as part of their tourism branding. You can view my presentation below: To get an idea of what my presentation was […]
Travel Constraints for City Break Travel: Novi Sad, Serbia
Posted on September 14, 2017 Leave a Comment
I was recently very pleased to be invited onto the Scientific Committee for the 17th Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality conference in Novi Sad, Serbia. With colleagues from the University of Novi Sad, we presented a paper on the constraints affecting city break tourists, based on research by my colleague Dr Miroslav Vujičić into visitors […]
Dark Cities?
Posted on May 29, 2015 4 Comments
This is a presentation based on research that my colleague Raymond Powell and I have been carrying out into Dark Tourism in Europe. Raymond gave the presentation at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism in Athens, Greece. Dark tourism can be defined as tourism associated with the visitation of […]
