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The corporate future of music festivals?
Music festivals are in trouble. All over the place. We were first alerted to this by an article in the Dutch media, highlighting the...

Greg Richards
Jun 92 min read


The inside-out strategy turns the museum on its head
The Guardian called the newly-opened V&A East Storehouse in the Olympic Park in London ‘The national museum of absolutely everything’ . ...

Greg Richards
Jun 25 min read


Expanding knowledge on creative tourism in Europe
A recent report from the European Commission highlights the role of cultural and creative tourism in conserving Europe's rich heritage...

Greg Richards
May 202 min read


Rural street art: graffiti beyond the city
The concept of street art tends to evoke images of inner city streets decorated with murals. But increasingly the practice of street art...

Greg Richards
May 123 min read


Curating the rural: organising new forms of cultural and creative tourism
As the experience economy has developed, the range and variety of experiences on offer has become overwhelming. This is good news if you...

Greg Richards
Apr 225 min read


Warm beer: eccentric taste or heritage of humanity?
The news that the UK is attempting to gain UNESCO intangible heritage of humanity status for cask beer (yes, the warm stuff from the...

Greg Richards
Apr 142 min read


Stopping the flow of visitors - harder than you think.
In their efforts to stem the tide of tourists, cities often forget that they have usually been at the forefront of tourism development...

Greg Richards
Apr 73 min read


US Travel plans in the bin?
Encountering a discarded map of the USA in the street was a clear sign of the change. Instead of being used as a holiday planning tool,...

Greg Richards
Apr 13 min read


The think-do gap in sustainable travel
Greg Richards and Wendy Morrill From the "Good Tourism" Blog Many people see themselves as responsible travellers, but act irresponsibly....

Greg Richards
Mar 112 min read


Barcelona and Amsterdam: Overtourism vs Touristification
At a recent Tourism Society webinar we discussed the increasingly contentious concept of overtourism. One of the issues with overtourism...

Greg Richards
Mar 34 min read


Rural tourism information: A route to the future?
In a recent post we discussed the decision by the City of Paris to shut its last physical tourist office. In a reaction to that post,...

Greg Richards
Feb 245 min read


Museums matter. Once they’ve been robbed….
Visiting the Romanian city of Sibiu at the invitation of our old friend Ilie Rotariu, we stumbled across a publicity campaign for museums...

Greg Richards
Feb 182 min read


Touristification or Trumpification?
Donald Trump’s announcement that he was going to “take over” Gaza, relocate Palestinians, and redevelop the area into the “Riviera of the...

Greg Richards
Feb 51 min read


The eventful or the festival city?
In a thoughtful review of the ‘festival city’ in Event Management Journal, Louise Todd and Bernadette Quinn ponder whether the festival...

Greg Richards
Feb 33 min read


Moving to the countryside: Cultural and Creative Tourism
The Crocus Project has just published an extensive literature review of Cultural and Creative Tourism (CCT) in Rural and Remote Areas...

Greg Richards
Jan 153 min read


Goodbye to bricks and mortar – and real people.
There was considerable media coverage of the fact that Paris closed its last physical tourist information office this week. Le Monde...

Greg Richards
Jan 132 min read
A taxing time for tourists?
Tourists currently seem to be the people everybody else loves to hate (at least when they are not travelling themselves). Protests...

Greg Richards
Nov 25, 20244 min read


A taxing time for tourists?
Tourists currently seem to be the people everybody else loves to hate (at least when they are not travelling themselves). Protests...

Greg Richards
Nov 25, 20244 min read


The new (virtual) Guggenheim?
Not so long ago, it seemed that every city wanted a Guggenheim Museum. The success of the Bilbao franchise of the New York museum chain...

Greg Richards
Nov 20, 20242 min read


Tourism and the Quality of Life: The effect of Amenities
Increased interest in the Quality of Life offered by cities and other places has focussed more attention on the role played by the...

Greg Richards
Oct 9, 20243 min read
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