Guest Post – The Development of ‘Red Tourism’

Through this article, I hope to provide an idea of how ‘red tourism’ is developing in the country and what it means for those of the middle class and those in the poorer regions of the country, where the phenomenon of ‘red tourism’ is taking off. For readers unfamiliar with this expression, ‘red tourism’ are those…

Future Directions of Sports Tourism – Fostering Scenario Planning Practices

The ascent of sports tourism is rooted within seeking to perpetuate and seize upon speculative events and their unprecedented tourism outputs. Sports tourism can be attractive means for bolstering place reputations and forging a demand for repeat domestic and international visitors. The future trends and directions of sport tourism have yet to be contemplated and…

Predicting Olympic Tourism Flows – Utilisation of Scenario Planning

I will examine whether we can really predict Olympic tourism numbers to a host city/nation. In short I will debate whether the “Major Sporting Event Tourism Flow Model” developed by Preuss (2005) and scenario planning approaches should be integrated together, in order to standardise methods of measuring economical impact of major sporting events on the host city.…

UK Tourism and Sport Management Research Centres

I have devised a list for academics, practitioners, researchers and students who want to find out more about many of the top sport, leisure, hospitality and tourism research centres in the UK (shown in university alphabetical order). This includes links to their website and social networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn. Birkbeck, University of…

Capitalising on and Enriching Nostalgia Sport Tourism

Nostalgia sport tourism is considered congruously with travel to visit place, and nostalgia sport tourism is highly representative of the ways in which sport has become commodified over the years. In terms of sporting sites it can include visits to halls of fame and museums. Nostalgia sport tourism is an illuminating area of sport tourism, and…

The Cycle of Olympic Branding

This blog entry will encompass a variety of themes from branding for the London 2012 Olympics, official sponsorship deals for London 2012, through to how London aims to build and distinguish its unique national and international tourism profile. Moreover tourism approaches adopted by the UK government for London 2012 will be assessed. Olympic branding for…

The Nature and Force of Dark Tourism

The first question that needs to be posed is what exactly constitutes dark tourism? Dark tourism (also known as thanatourism) is merely where travellers visit sites of death and brutality. However this definition can be extended further to cover the act of travel to sites associated with death, suffering and the seemingly macabre such as Auschwitz,…

Contemporary Overview of Gay Tourism and its Formidable Role in Regeneration

Tourism Student’s Virtual Conference 2012 Conference Title: “The many faces of the global tourism experience in the 21st century”. Strand 3: Love, peace and paradise: Tourism as a positive force in the world. Full Conference Paper: Did you know that? In 2011, Tel Aviv (Israel) was named the best gay city travel destination in the world…

Recommended Readings for Tourism and Sports Management Courses and Modules

Here is my comprehensive list of core and supplementary tourism and sports management textbooks, including latest editions and forthcoming releases. This may be particularly useful for tourism and sports business management courses and modules. These texts have been grouped together into various themed areas, for example, tourism management, mega-events, dark tourism and leisure studies to name a…

Social Networking Sites – Tools for Future Academic Development

After uploading my undergraduate dissertation thesis to academia.edu, I felt it necessary to discuss the role of social networking sites as tools or resources for future academic development. Increasingly over the course of my university studies I have found myself encapsulated by the delights of published academic papers. Academics are slowly gaining new-found respect from their peers for disseminating insightful industry related news…