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A visit to Belgrade
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 together a group of academics for an event that was opened by Gordana Plamanec, the Managing Director of the National Tourism Organisation of Serbia. As well as Samantha and I, delegates heard from Rob Davidson (MICE Knowledge) and Dr Melanie Smith (Budapest Business School), Miha Lesjak (University of Primorska, Slovenia) and Milan Stojkovic (Tourism Management Consultant).
The conference was one of the most interesting tourism events that I’ve been involved in for a long time – a chance to hear from academics in a region that is often under-represented in academic circles and to listen to the views of young people from the region about how they see the future of tourism and their own careers. I learnt about the extent and significance of spa and health tourism in south-eastern Europe and the innovative marketing of the European Basketball Championships in Solvenia in 2013, as well as the factors affecting tourism entrepreneurship in the region. You can view our presentations below:
Dr Samantha Chaperon: Tourist Destination Image – Young People’s Perceptions of Serbia
James Kennell: Cultural Tourism and Urban Regeneration in Europe – Lessons for Serbia
As well as a great conference, our hosts showed us some of the traditional culture of Serbia and took us to some of their other events for young people in the city. Belgrade has so much to offer young people as a destination, not least its nightlife! We tried to keep up, but eventually gave in and saved our energy for sightseeing…
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 one back in 2012, when I gave this presentation on tourism and local economic development. They tend to keep their events quite small, for around 50 delegates, and this means that there is lots of scope for meeting people and getting involved in discussions. In my work with the Economic Development Resource Centre at the University of Greenwich, I’ve been involved for a few years in linking academics to public and private sector organisations seeking to promote economic development and I’m very much looking forward to learning from the other participants in this event in January.
Tourism: A modern synthesis – case studies
The new edition of Page and Connell’s ‘Tourism: A Modern Synthesis’ has just been published. This is a textbook that we make great use of on our BA Tourism Management degree at the University of Greenwich, so I was very pleased to be asked to contribute five digital case studies to the 4th edition.
My case studies are:
Marketing Tourism: fastjet – Launching Africa’s first low-budget airline using digital marketing
Sustainability: Sardinia: Implementing approaches to sustainability at the destination level
Economic Impacts: Gromit Unleashed: The economic impact of a film and TV tourism product
Social and Cultural Impacts: The Arctic – socio-cultural impacts of tourism in an emerging destination
Coastal and Resort Tourism: Margate: Cultural tourism and the British seaside towns
If you’d like to know more about these case studies, just get in touch.
Tourism Management at the University of Greenwich
This is a new promotional film that has just been released for our BA Tourism Management degree at University of Greenwich. I’m the programme leader for the degree and I’m in the video, along with three of our current students.
