I made a few comments on the article “The village that took over the world” – Gentleman’s Journal https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com on how and why Bicester shopping village attracts so many Chinese tourists. Background Approximately, 130 Chinese people made overseas trips …
We have a paper recently accepted, entitled “Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling Tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage”. We previously presented on the topic in 2014 at the 6th Expert ATLAS Conference on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 19-23 June 2014, …
New article in the Journal of Tourism Futures – O’Regan, M., 2018. Backpacking’s Future and its Drifter Past. Journal of Tourism Futures. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the backpacker label, by reconstructing it …
I visited Peru under a researcher links grant, exploring tourism’s role in protecting and restoring natural capital. This work was supported by a Researcher Links grant, ID [360558625], under the Newton Fund partnership. The grant is funded by the UK Department for …
AAG 2019 CFP: China, Tourism and (Soft) Power. AAG Washington DC: 3-7 April 2019 Specialty Group Sponsors: Recreation, Tourism, & Sport, Organizers: Michael O’Regan, PhD, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom. Jaeyeon Choe, PhD, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom. While there has …
I attended the “Workshop on Sustainable Island Development” in July with the “British Council Researcher Links” fund for early career researchers ..so that researchers from the UK and internationally interact, learn from each other and explore opportunities for building long-lasting …
I attended the ESRC Research Methods Festival 2018 in Bath last week. My first time, and I was generally impressed. The provisional programme included 58 methodological sessions consisting of over 200 individual presentations. There were some lively discussions. However, some of …
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 …
In the academic year 2015-2016, as new unit leader, I decided to change the format of the delivery of the “Event Management” (Level 5, BAEM, FOM) unit’s main outcome – holding a live event. While many Events Management courses have …