Dr James Kennell
Tourism and Events Research
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Tourism Policy Research after COVID-19
Posted on January 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
My new article has just been published in the Skyline Business Journal, called ‘Tourism Policy Research after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reconsidering the Role of the State in Tourism’. The article is open-access, meaning anyone can read it. I argue that the decisions that governments around the world have taken to intervene in their tourism industries […]
Tourism Policy Implementation in Bangladesh
Posted on January 13, 2020 Leave a Comment
Our new paper, on the implementation of tourism policy in Bangladesh has just been published online in the journal Tourism Recreation Research. If you don’t have access, and you would like to read it, please just get in touch! “National tourism policy in Bangladesh is a relatively new development and this research is the first […]
Tourism, Governance and Sustainable Development
Posted on August 16, 2019 Leave a Comment
With my colleague, Professor Francisco Antonio dos Anjos, we have just edited a special issue of the journal Sustainability. This is an open-access journal, so it is free to everyone to read and download. There are fifteen papers in the special issue which deal with issues related to sustainable tourism in countries as diverse as Iraq, […]
Call for Papers – Special Issue “Tourism, Governance and Sustainable Development”
Posted on July 26, 2018 Leave a Comment
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 […]
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 […]
UK Tourism Policy – A Punctuated Equilibrium view
Posted on July 22, 2016 Leave a Comment
Based on our ongoing research into tourism policy in the UK, Dr Samantha Chaperon and I recently gave this presentation at the International Conference on Tourism in Naples, Italy. In our presentation, we present research where we tested the utility of the concept of punctuated equilibrium, for understanding recent changes in UK tourism policy. Punctuated […]
Policy Change and Tourism Policy in the United Kingdom
Posted on May 16, 2016 Leave a Comment
Along with Dr Samantha Chaperon, I have recently had a paper accepted for the 6th International Conference on Tourism, which is being held in Naples, Italy from 29th June to 2nd July this year. The paper builds on our earlier joint work on UK tourism policy, and my own work in this area. In our […]
Backing the Tourism Sector? The UK Government’s new tourism policy
Posted on September 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
The UK Government recently published their new ‘five point plan’ for the tourism industry. You can download it from here. In this post, I’m going to have a critical look at this new policy, which actually contains very little policy at all… As Kurt Janson, the policy director of Tourism Alliance, has pointed out, it […]
UK Tourism Policy and the 2015 General Election
Posted on January 7, 2015 4 Comments
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 […]
China’s new tourism policy 2013-2020
Posted on April 2, 2013 1 Comment
The Chinese Government has launched a new tourism policy, with the aim of significantly enhancing tourism development in the country and establishing China’s tourism industry as a significant economic force in China’s domestic and international tourism markets. You can download the policy document, in English, by clicking here. In this post, I give an outline […]
