Three women filmed on a drunken rampage following a night out in the Spanish resort of Marbella caused a lot of outrage. In an article in the Mirror published on May 25th, 2018, , I added my perspective. The title …
Work is under way to restore many of the Spanish colonial-era churches around the Philippines as the government tries to lure Catholics from overseas. I contributed to an article ‘Dear God, please send the Philippines some tourists‘ in the South …
Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, I have been attending (March 26-30, 2018) a Lancaster University and Thammasat University workshop on Micro, small and Medium-sized Enterprises’ Digital Transformation in Thailand. Thanks to Professor Juliana Sutanto and …
On 16 March 2018 the sixth edition of seminar series Cities & Mobilities focused on mobility and design. Anna Nikolaeva, is the organizer, and Anna has a great website dedicated to her research and the seminar series “Cities & Mobilities” …
I have been interested in hitchhiking as a practice since 2008, and have written two book chapters on it. I am writing up some articles at the moment, based on my hitchhiking experiences, including a hitchhiking trip to Ireland in …
I was delighted to visit and be welcomed to the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi (Vietnam) on the first days of 2018. VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities was established in 1995, based on …
Event Date: 11th November 2017 Time: 4-7pm As as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017, organised by Bournemouth University, I ran an event about hitchhiking and micro-adventures. You may wonder, when did the practice of hitchhiking need …
The Future Looks Seamless: Attending to Friction in Travel and Tourism. I spend 4 days in Lancaster at the CeMoRe – T2M – Cosmobilities – Conference between November 2, 2017 – November 5, 2017. It was at the Centre for …
I spent two years in Dalian China. We were able to collect some data, at what then an unusual event – a wine festival. While now, wine festivals have popped up all over China (as well as Hong Kong and …
There has been a noticeable ‘Airbnb effect’ in the tourism industry. This has been especially evident in the accommodation sector as hotels seek to become more ‘Experiential,’ access-oriented, intimate, personalised, and on-demand. For larger hotel groups, this has led both …