Tag: Local Enterprise Partnerships
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UK Tourism Policy and the 2015 General Election
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 […]
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Implementing the Witty Review: Universities and Economic Development
I”ve been invited to chair this Inside Government event on 21st January 2014. ‘Implementing the Witty Review: One Year On’, looks like a very interesting event and, as always with Inside Government events, there is a great range of speakers lined up. I’ve been to a couple of Inside Government events and I spoke at […]
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Crossovers seed-funding competition 2013
Over the last few months in EDReC, we’ve been working with Arts Council England South-East on a project called Crossovers. The project aimed to explore new relationships between culture, tourism and economic development. In the Spring, we’ll be publishing a report on the ‘cultural visitor economy’ (CVE). We held a conference in September 2012 and one of […]
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Tourism and Local Economic Development: ITSA presentation
This is the presentation that I gave at the 4th Biennial International Tourism Studies Association conference in Indonesia last month. It was broadly based on this paper about Tourism and Local Economic Development in England. I’m planning to carry out some interviews with LEP representatives, local authorities and tourism businesses this year and to write-up the […]
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Tourism and Local Economic Development in the UK
Recently, I’ve been working on this topic as part of my work with the Economic Development Resource Centre. Below are a presentation I gave at an Inside Government event on the visitor economy and the paper that supports it, which was published in the proceedings of the 13th International Research and Practice Conference of the Russian State University […]
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The Future of UK Tourism: Developing the Visitor Economy
I’ll be speaking at this Inside Government event on 7th December in London. My talk will examine the links between economic development and tourism in the UK, in the context of the economic crisis. Click on the image below to go straight to the event booking page which has a list of all the invited […]
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Economic Insurgency – paper for the Future Cities 2011 conference
Graham Symon and I have had an abstract accepted for a paper we will present at the Future Cities 2011 conference, being held in London on 15th & 16th December this year. The paper builds on an idea that came from some work on localism we were doing earlier in the year for the Economic […]
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Seaside towns and Local Enterprise Partnerships: paper
Our paper on seaside towns and local enterprise partnerships has just been published in the proceedings of the 2010 ATHE conference. Click here to go to the ATHE website where you order a copy of the proceedings. The abstract is below: Despite their huge popularity as holiday destinations, seaside towns have generally been under-researched. Existing […]
Dr James Kennell 