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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Tourism and Hospitality Entrepreneurship in Islands
Posted on January 5, 2020 Leave a Comment
Our new paper, on entrepreneurship in the tourism and hospitality industries in island contexts, has just been published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. In the paper, we conduct a systematic literature review on the topic, which has received little attention up to this point. The abstract is below. If you would like to […]
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 […]
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, […]
Sun, Sea and Shrines – Cultural Tourism in Phuket, Thailand
Posted on August 29, 2018 1 Comment
Our new paper on the diversification of tourism in the Thai island of Phuket has just been published in the journal Geographica Pannonica. This is an open access journal and so the paper is free to download and read – just click here to open the PDF. In the paper we look at the need for […]
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 […]
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. […]
Any Stupid Questions About…Tourism: Podcast
Posted on May 29, 2018 Leave a Comment
This week, I’m interviewed on the ‘Any Stupid Questions’ podcast, on a show that is all about tourism. Three very funny comedians ask me questions about tourism, and I do my best to answer. You can listen by going to Acast or iTunes, or by clicking on the image below. “This week, host Danielle Ward is joined […]
