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Creative tourism 4.0?

The latest initiative by Thailand to develop creative tourism has seen Bangkok team up with Airbnb to produce the “first-ever Creative...

Aug 28, 20233 min read

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...

Jun 20, 20235 min read

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...

Jun 6, 20234 min read

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...

Feb 9, 20234 min read

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...

Feb 1, 20232 min read

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...

May 3, 20223 min read

The ‘inside-out museum’ comes of age

Some museums will literally ‘turn themselves inside out’ in an attempt to attract visitors and media attention. The most spectacular...

Dec 2, 20213 min read

Blockbuster art exhibitions: From ‘first time ever’ to ‘last of its kind’ in a few short years

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has just announced a ‘first and last’ exhibition of all the paintings by the Dutch master Vermeer for 2023....

Oct 15, 20213 min read

Even the Pandemic can’t stem the tide of new museums

Museums have always formed the backbone of cultural tourism, and the last 30 years have seen a flood of new museums and expansions in...

Jun 23, 20214 min read

Rethinking Cultural Tourism

Originally published on the Edward Elgar Blog By Greg Richards[i] Culture is an almost compulsory element of the tourist experience in...

Jan 22, 20211 min read

Heritage is everywhere – you can smell it

Recent decades have seen a steady extension of the meaning and content of heritage. Heritage no longer needs to be old, or tangible or of...

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