The Rise of the Craft Fair?
A recent article in the UK Guardian newspaper carried the headline ‘People want something that’s not on Amazon’: the rise of the UK craft...
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Greg Richards
- Nov 24
- 3 min
Food from the wall – a healthy option?
Vending machines apparently have a long history: the first was allegedly constructed by Heron of Alexandria in about 100 BC. Heron was an...
Greg Richards
- Nov 13
- 6 min
Academic silos, localism, overtourism, and modernity
Greg Richards on academic silos, localism, overtourism, and modernity Jim Butcher November 13, 2023 https://www.goodtourismblog.com/2023...
Greg Richards
- Sep 4
- 3 min
Festival Management: From ravers to refugees
Festivals are in the news at the moment, and not just because of the music. Following on from scenes of abandoned tents and other...
Greg Richards
- Aug 28
- 3 min
Domestic tourism takes a post-covid hit: growing inequality to blame?
After Covid many places hoped that a new form of tourism would emerge, with more domestic visitors, more sustainable travel and less...
Greg Richards
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Tax can be fun, especially for events
Research carried out by a group of researchers from BUAS analysed the economic and social impacts of the Zandvoort Grand Prix in 2022,...
Greg Richards
- Jul 3
- 2 min
Major events and house prices
Major events and festivals can have a marked influence on house prices. The question is whether your house will be worth more or less. I...
Greg Richards
- Jun 20
- 5 min
Potential demand for creative tourism among South Africa Millennials
A popularised version of the paper by Annelli Douglas, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn and Greg Richards on Millennial creative tourism experiences...
Greg Richards
- Jun 7
- 1 min
What's cooking in Italian gastronomy?
In case you haven't come across it yet, there is a great annual report on the Italian food and wine tourism market produced by my friend...
Greg Richards
- Jun 6
- 4 min
Vermeer: How to create a blockbuster exhibition
The BBC4 documentary Close to Vermeer follows the development of the most successful blockbuster exhibition ever staged at the...
Greg Richards
- May 2
- 2 min
Festival rebound after the pandemic: visible and invisible growth
The festival and event industry was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020 there were only 155 festivals held – only 14% of the...
Greg Richards
- Apr 11
- 3 min
The TikTok queue – a new global attraction
Residents and visitors in Amsterdam are used to seeing long queues for leading attractions in the city, such as the Anne Frank House or...
Greg Richards
- Mar 21
- 4 min
The rise of the creative underclass
In his book Culture Crash, Scott Timberg attacked Richard Florida’s notion of the ‘Creative Class’ acting as a driver of the economy,...
Greg Richards
- Mar 6
- 2 min
Event inflation: Shrinking anniversaries and pseudo-events
Celebrations are an important part of social life. So important in fact, that it seems we are less and less inclined to wait for...
Greg Richards
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Does Venice need digital nomads?
Venice is such a popular tourist destination that it has become the classic example used to illustrate problems of ‘overtourism’. The...
Greg Richards
- Feb 9
- 4 min
Killing the tourist gaze at the Tate Modern?
The Tate Modern art museum in London is one of the world’s most popular cultural tourism attractions, with 5.5 million visits a year. The...
Greg Richards
- Feb 1
- 2 min
Small Cities Dreaming of Street Art
Street art seems to be everywhere these days. Not just in the grimy back streets of major cities the world over, but increasingly in...
Greg Richards
- Jan 31
- 3 min
What does it take to build a human pyramid? A creative tourism experience in Girona
Through the Cultsense programme we have been introduced to a range of engaging cultural and creative tourism experiences across Europe....
Greg Richards
- Jan 22
- 1 min
Painting ‘tourists go home’ is not enough
As reported previously in this blog, since the pandemic gave way to a new flood of tourism arrivals in Barcelona, the city has been...
Greg Richards
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
Tourists go home? They don't seem to be listening
Before the pandemic, Barcelona distinguished itself as the anti-tourism capital of Europe, with burning tourist busses and locals...
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