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Greg Richards
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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...


Greg Richards
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...

Greg Richards
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...


Greg Richards
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...

Greg Richards
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...


Greg Richards
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...


Greg Richards
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...


Greg Richards
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....


Greg Richards
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...

Greg Richards
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...


Greg Richards
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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