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Carnival was cancelled…..long live Carnival?
Carnival was very different this year. Instead of the world’s biggest party spilling out onto the streets of Rio and New Orleans,...

Greg Richards
Feb 21, 20212 min read


Platforms, networks, communities - what difference do events make?
Events are multidimensional tools. They can be used to celebrate, negotiate, highlight, frame and promote a wide range of content, from...

Greg Richards
Feb 10, 20213 min read


A potential antidote to social incontinence?
It is more than a little ironic using social media to complain about the continual outpourings of Twitter, Facebook and You Tube....

Greg Richards
Jan 29, 20212 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...

Greg Richards
Jan 22, 20211 min read


Travel recovery? First reassure the consumer
UNWTO 3R strategy needs an extra R for Reassurance With Covid-19 raging more fiercely than ever and lockdowns extending across the...

Greg Richards
Jan 12, 20212 min read


Why Corona ravers bite policemen
Thanks to colleague Wendy Morrill for pointing out an article in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant about illegal rave parties being held...

Greg Richards
Jan 2, 20212 min read


Leisure and busyness: the rise of the scarce individual
Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan did some interesting work on the use of busyness as a status symbol before the pandemic....

Greg Richards
Dec 13, 20202 min read


Competing for the digital nomad
On December 3rd Forbes reported the latest country to get on the growing digital nomad bandwagon: On Wednesday (2 December) Greece's...

Greg Richards
Dec 6, 20202 min read


The pop-up pandemic
Covid-19 is fast moving and unpredictable, which means that investing fixed locations with heavy overheads is an increasingly risky...

Greg Richards
Nov 18, 20202 min read

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