A new article published in The Conversation  analyses the demand for creative tourism in South Africa. Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, Anneli Douglas and Greg Richards report that Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) are increasingly taking part in creative skill building experiences such as cooking classes in traditional African cuisine in townships like Soweto and Langa, or painting workshops in small towns like Villiersdorp in the Western Cape. Street creativity in Johannesburg The results of a...

December 11 th  marks 40 years since the launch of the campaign ‘Barcelona, posa’t guapa’ (Barcelona, make yourself beautiful). This urban renovation programme coincided with the preparations for the 1992 Olympic Games, the event that propelled the city onto the world stage. At that point, the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán recalled that the city was like “a sunken Titanic”.  (in Ferrer Viana, 2001: 16)17. The Barcelona, posa’t guapa  campaign had two main elements: renovating homes offices...

Wendy Morrill and I recently wrote a piece for the Good Tourism Blog, charting the possible effects of the 'intention economy' - the idea that AI will soon know what you want before you do. This is significant because of the growing range of experiences we have to choose from. Algorithmic curation is already being applied in many fields: for example, 70% of the videos watched on YouTube are now selected for us by algorithms. Some of the implications of the growing curation trend are outlined...