Dr James Kennell
Tourism and Events Research
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Dark Tourism and World Heritage Sites
Posted on July 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
Our new paper, on Dark Tourism and UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS), has just been published in the Journal of Heritage Tourism. In the paper, we report on research that we carried out in Greenwich, London, with stakeholders of the Maritime Greenwich WHS. We found that stakeholders were broadly supportive of tourism development in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dark tourism: Cemetery tourism
Posted on November 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
I was interviewed briefly early in the year for the industry publication, funeral service times. You can read the final article here, or by clicking the image below. Along with a colleague, Raymond Powell, I’ve had a book chapter published before on dark tourism and we have a journal article in the International Journal of […]
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 […]
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 […]
