Congratulations! Our article on peer-to-peer accommodation platform use in 2017, and has over a short period of two years, become one of the most read articles in the journal Anatolia – becoming one of its top ten “most read” – 2020. Despite the …
Despite COVD-19, the event sector will return. Crowdfunding may offer a potential source of funding and recovery. The purpose of this research is to explore why individuals, alone, or as part of a team, are motivated to create crowd funded campaigns/ projects for …
Abstract The expansion of casino concessions and subsequent growth of employment and gross domestic product (GDP) per Capita in Macau after the 1999 handover from Portugal created an illusion of prosperity in a post-colonial territory of less than 30 sq. …
Delighted to announce that I am joining the Editorial Board of ‘Tourist Studies’ – big fan of the journal and esteemed colleagues on board and associated / founder editors. Link to the Editorial Board.
I wrote a short blog about hitchhiking and COVID-19 on the CAS Blog. Whereas motorscapes have come to be associated with automobility, I examine mobility cultures with their own politics, cultures and identities associated with innovative appropriations of existing materialities, …
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 …