Interview: Hospitality Investor reports on how “overtourism” is creating tension in Spain’s tourist hotspots.

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Hospitality Investor reports on how “overtourism” is creating tension in Spain’s tourist hotspots.https://loom.ly/XPgoDV4 💡With insight from:Peter DeBrine, Expert in Sustainable Tourism, UNESCOMajorca Daily Bulletin, S.L.Emma Brennan, Head of Media & Communications, UK’s ABTAMichael J. O’ Regan, PhD, Lecturer in Tourism …

Is there a Tourism Backlash? (interview)

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Delighted to be a guest on The Newsmakers – a TRT World’s flagship debate show about overtourism. A very balanced debate, focused on Barcelona.  TRT World is Turkey’s first international English-language news network, broadcasting worldwide and offering in-depth reporting focusing on …

Special Issue of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 32(2): Off the Grid and on the Road in Europe: Living in an Age of Uncertainty and Polycrisis.

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Great to see this out – Special Issue: Off the Grid and on the Road in Europe: Living in an Age of Uncertainty and Polycrisis. Guest Editor: Michael O’Regan The introduction is available open access online here:https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2023.320202. The entirety of …

Tourism Geographies Podcast

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I discuss my work on #backpacker #culture and #mobilities in this weeks’ #podcast of the #tourism geographies journal (Season 2, Ep. 8) The talk is based on my book: Backpacking Culture and Mobilities: Independent and Nomadic Travel This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types …