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Greg Richards
Mar 25, 20213 min read
Have you had a good pandemic?
A recent article in the Financial Times by Simon Kuper argues that “many of us have had a good pandemic” – or at least those of us not...
Greg Richards
Mar 17, 20212 min read
Estonia: developing the new digital nation
Estonia – not so much a country, more a state of mind? This small Baltic state is bust developing itself into a ‘new digital nation’ with...
Greg Richards
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Getting our leisure life moving again
The question everybody is asking now is – when will we get our normal lives back? The vaccines have held out the prospect of that...
Greg Richards
Feb 21, 20212 min read
Carnival was cancelled…..long live Carnival?
Carnival was very different this year. Instead of the world’s biggest party spilling out onto the streets of Rio and New Orleans,...
Greg Richards
Feb 10, 20213 min read
Platforms, networks, communities - what difference do events make?
Events are multidimensional tools. They can be used to celebrate, negotiate, highlight, frame and promote a wide range of content, from...
Greg Richards
Jan 29, 20212 min read
A potential antidote to social incontinence?
It is more than a little ironic using social media to complain about the continual outpourings of Twitter, Facebook and You Tube....
Greg Richards
Jan 22, 20211 min read
Heritage is everywhere – you can smell it
Recent decades have seen a steady extension of the meaning and content of heritage. Heritage no longer needs to be old, or tangible or of...
Greg Richards
Jan 12, 20212 min read
Travel recovery? First reassure the consumer
UNWTO 3R strategy needs an extra R for Reassurance With Covid-19 raging more fiercely than ever and lockdowns extending across the...
Greg Richards
Jan 2, 20212 min read
Why Corona ravers bite policemen
Thanks to colleague Wendy Morrill for pointing out an article in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant about illegal rave parties being held...
Greg Richards
Dec 13, 20202 min read
Leisure and busyness: the rise of the scarce individual
Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan did some interesting work on the use of busyness as a status symbol before the pandemic....
Greg Richards
Dec 6, 20202 min read
Competing for the digital nomad
On December 3rd Forbes reported the latest country to get on the growing digital nomad bandwagon: On Wednesday (2 December) Greece's...
Greg Richards
Nov 18, 20202 min read
The pop-up pandemic
Covid-19 is fast moving and unpredictable, which means that investing fixed locations with heavy overheads is an increasingly risky...
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