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

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

There was considerable media coverage of the fact that Paris closed its last physical tourist information office this week. Le Monde...

Tourists currently seem to be the people everybody else loves to hate (at least when they are not travelling themselves). Protests...

Tourists currently seem to be the people everybody else loves to hate (at least when they are not travelling themselves). Protests...

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...

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

A recent exchange reported in the Guardian encapsulated the differing views of ‘tourism’ from the perspective of the tourists and the...

Listening to an interesting presentation from Jennifer Strong  at the WYSE Travel Confederation  Conference (WYSTC) in Lisbon on AI, we...

A good week to be in Barcelona, at least if you are a Formula 1 fan. While most of the world’s attention might have been focussed on the...

A number of widely publicised cases of tourists defacing ancient monuments in Italy has shed light on the continuing debate around the...

The Canary Islands were shaken this weekend by a wave of protests about mass tourism, which reverberated as far as London and New York....

Following our post analysing the transformation of the Dutch tradition of eating out of the wall (a wide range of snacks displayed in a...

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

The death of the selfie was predicted earlier this year as a growing number of destinations try and stamp out the tourist selfie. Crowds...

I have always enjoyed reading Jim Butcher’s analyses of the relationship between tourism and culture. So of course I was eager to read...

In 2023 Amsterdam made waves as the first city to embrace the Doughnut economy model developed by British economist Kate Raworth. Time...

Thanks to support from Tilburg and Breda Universities, a number of our publications are now available free to download. Feel free to...

Smaller places are often in the shadow of global cities such as London, Paris and New York. Big cities have big marketing budgets,...

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...