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 …
I was invited to attend the British Council Workshop on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The workshop, held at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) focused on SDG #12 “Responsible consumption and production” (especially in the UK), and SDG#9 …
Call for Papers Journal of China Tourism Research Special issue on “China, Tourism and (Soft) Power.” Guest Editors Michael O’Regan, PhD. Bournemouth University, United Kingdom Professor Joseph Cheer Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan Journal of China Tourism Research …
Very pleased that our paper, ‘Exploring conspicuous consumption at a wine festival in China’ has been published! It is published in “Hospitality & Society” “Conspicuous consumption and hospitality at a wine festival in China” (2019) Our study found that conspicuous …
Glad to see our article ‘Managing a non-profit hospitality platform conversion: The case of Couchsurfing.com‘ published in Tourism Management Perspectives (TMP). Such a smooth process, with submission, reviews and revise. I recommend TMP to publish. It was a pleasure. O’Regan, …
Panel title Hitchhiking: affect, spaces and stories Convenors Patrick LAVIOLETTE – UCL / Tallinn Univ. Jacqueline HOLLER – UNBCMichael O’REGAN – Bournemouth Univ. Short panel abstractFor generations, despite being a global form of transport solidarity, hitchhiking has not been directly explored in anthropology. Even …
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 …