Dr James Kennell
Tourism and Events Research
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Acting the part: emotional intelligence and travel agencies
Posted on December 11, 2020 Leave a Comment
Our new paper ‘Acting the part: Emotional intelligence and job satisfaction as predictors of emotional labor in travel agencies’ has been published open-access in the journal Tourism and Hospitality Research. Because the paper is open-access, anyone can read it for free, and I have copied the abstract below. “Employees of retail travel agencies in sales […]
Tourism Entrepreneurship and Industrial Restructuring
Posted on April 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
Our latest paper, on industrial restructuring and tourism entrepreneurship in Serbia, has just been published. This is an open access paper that you can download and read, for free, from here. The abstract is below: National culture can influence entrepreneurship by creating a specific cultural framework that defines the possibilities for the recognition of opportunities […]
Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA
Posted on September 14, 2019 Leave a Comment
I have recently been invited to join the Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić”, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as an Associate Editor for the Human Geography section. The journal is published by a national academy which is the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841. I am delighted to become […]
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 […]
Conference: New Spaces in Cultural Tourism
Posted on March 31, 2017 Leave a Comment
Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality – CTTH 2017 is an International conference regarding research in tourism, leisure, hotel management and multidisciplinary studies such as events and meeting industry, entrepreneurship in hospitality, creative industries etc. I am on the Scientific Committee for this year’s event, the 17th in a successful series. Information about the conference from […]
My contribution to Serbian TV
Posted on January 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
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 […]
MEKST 2015
Posted on January 4, 2016 Leave a Comment
Recently, I was a keynote speaker at the MEKST 2015 conference in Novi Sad, in Serbia. This is an annual conference held in Serbia for students and faculty from around the Balkans, with a focus on the countries of the former Yugoslavia. This was the third event I have spoken at in the region over […]
A visit to Belgrade
Posted on March 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
Last week, Dr Samantha Chaperon and I, from the University of Greenwich, presented at the Belgrade Tourism Conference 2015, which was being held alongside the Belgrade Tourism Fair. We were invited to speak by Serbia4Youth, an amazing organisation who are working to present Serbia as a destination for young people from across Europe and beyond. Serbia4Youth brought […]
