In an article entitled Can Airbnb Survive Coronavirus?, published in the Bloomberg owned CityLab , Dr. Michael O’Regan, Dept of Sport and Event Management, was quoted on the future of Airbnb. When travel to cities returns, it may not be …
Dr. Michael O’Regan, Senior Academic in the Department of Sport and Event Management, was quoted on Reuters in an article entitled “Purpose over profit: are B-Corps the future of sustainable business?” In a follow up to his article in the …
Michael O’ Regan, FOM, was recently quoted in a skift report entitled “Opening Closed Doors: Can Hotels Do More to Fight Human Trafficking?” One thing Airbnb hasn’t done yet, however, is engage directly with hosts. That’s a problem, said Michael …
Apologies for cross-posting * Abstract Submission Deadline – 31 January, 2020. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference: London, September, 1-4 CFP – Tourism geographies of the future. Session sponsor: Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG) Session conveners: Dr. Michael O’ …
We are currently seeking expression of Interest / chapter proposals for a book on backpacking/backpacker culture. There have been three previous “seminal” books on backpacking. Richards, G., & Wilson, J. (Eds.). (2004). The global nomad: Backpacker travel in theory and …
Michael O’Regan, FOM, is quoted in CNN travel – in an article that asks “Travelers behaving badly: Is the conduct of tourists getting worse? Michael O’Regan, a senior lecturer at Bournemouth University and former assistant professor at the Institute for …
Michael O’Regan, Bournemouth University Weeks after the collapse of his restaurant group and the loss of 1,000 jobs, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver announced that he was creating an “ethical” B Corporation or “B Corp”, a sort of company certification designed to show its holder gives …
Airbnb must face the facts: human trafficking and modern slavery happen in rented accommodation October 30, 2019 2.49pm GMT Researchers estimate that there are 1.1m victims of human trafficking across Europe. According to the UN almost one-third of human trafficking victims globally are children. …
it has been great experience designing a new module called “Event Engagement” (2019-20/ Final Year UG) as it also involved designing new assessments. To engage students, and link theory to practice, I brought in four different event organisers who had …
Dear All, Please see below the details of a panel for the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future Conference, which is taking place 4th-7th June 2020, London. The title of the panel is: Autostop/hitchhiking: socio-spatial …