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The think-do gap in sustainable travel
Greg Richards and Wendy Morrill From the "Good Tourism" Blog Many people see themselves as responsible travellers, but act irresponsibly....
Greg Richards
Mar 112 min read

Barcelona and Amsterdam: Overtourism vs Touristification
At a recent Tourism Society webinar we discussed the increasingly contentious concept of overtourism. One of the issues with overtourism...
Greg Richards
Mar 34 min read


Rural tourism information: A route to the future?
In a recent post we discussed the decision by the City of Paris to shut its last physical tourist office. In a reaction to that post,...
Greg Richards
Feb 245 min read


Museums matter. Once they’ve been robbed….
Visiting the Romanian city of Sibiu at the invitation of our old friend Ilie Rotariu, we stumbled across a publicity campaign for museums...
Greg Richards
Feb 182 min read


Touristification or Trumpification?
Donald Trump’s announcement that he was going to “take over” Gaza, relocate Palestinians, and redevelop the area into the “Riviera of the...
Greg Richards
Feb 51 min read


The eventful or the festival city?
In a thoughtful review of the ‘festival city’ in Event Management Journal, Louise Todd and Bernadette Quinn ponder whether the festival...
Greg Richards
Feb 33 min read

Moving to the countryside: Cultural and Creative Tourism
The Crocus Project has just published an extensive literature review of Cultural and Creative Tourism (CCT) in Rural and Remote Areas...
Greg Richards
Jan 153 min read


Goodbye to bricks and mortar – and real people.
There was considerable media coverage of the fact that Paris closed its last physical tourist information office this week. Le Monde...
Greg Richards
Jan 132 min read
A taxing time for tourists?
Tourists currently seem to be the people everybody else loves to hate (at least when they are not travelling themselves). Protests...
Greg Richards
Nov 25, 20244 min read


A taxing time for tourists?
Tourists currently seem to be the people everybody else loves to hate (at least when they are not travelling themselves). Protests...
Greg Richards
Nov 25, 20244 min read


The new (virtual) Guggenheim?
Not so long ago, it seemed that every city wanted a Guggenheim Museum. The success of the Bilbao franchise of the New York museum chain...
Greg Richards
Nov 20, 20242 min read


Tourism and the Quality of Life: The effect of Amenities
Increased interest in the Quality of Life offered by cities and other places has focussed more attention on the role played by the...
Greg Richards
Oct 9, 20243 min read

Patient Zero of the Overtourism Plague?
A recent exchange reported in the Guardian encapsulated the differing views of ‘tourism’ from the perspective of the tourists and the...
Greg Richards
Sep 30, 20242 min read


Dealing with the flood of AI bullshit
Listening to an interesting presentation from Jennifer Strong at the WYSE Travel Confederation Conference (WYSTC) in Lisbon on AI, we...
Greg Richards
Sep 26, 20243 min read


Verstappen wins again, but Barcelona loses?
A good week to be in Barcelona, at least if you are a Formula 1 fan. While most of the world’s attention might have been focussed on the...
Greg Richards
Jun 24, 20243 min read


Tourist graffiti: vandalism or memorial?
A number of widely publicised cases of tourists defacing ancient monuments in Italy has shed light on the continuing debate around the...
Greg Richards
Jun 5, 20242 min read


Lanzarote – paradise for tourists or inept politicians?
The Canary Islands were shaken this weekend by a wave of protests about mass tourism, which reverberated as far as London and New York....
Greg Richards
Apr 21, 20242 min read

The authentic food wall arrives at Schiphol
Following our post analysing the transformation of the Dutch tradition of eating out of the wall (a wide range of snacks displayed in a...
Greg Richards
Apr 17, 20241 min read

Creative tourism 4.0?
The latest initiative by Thailand to develop creative tourism has seen Bangkok team up with Airbnb to produce the “first-ever Creative...
Greg Richards
Apr 2, 20243 min read


The death of the selfie
The death of the selfie was predicted earlier this year as a growing number of destinations try and stamp out the tourist selfie. Crowds...
Greg Richards
Mar 25, 20242 min read
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