Eat Well Travel Better Podcast
Eat Well Travel Better is a podcast from World Food Travel Association presented by Erik Wolf and Aashi Vel. The presenters meet leaders in the industry and discusses issues in gastronomy, tourism and hospitality. ...
Author: Leanne
New UNWTO book – Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals – Good Practices in the Americas
Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals – Good Practices in the Americas The following is a quite from the abstract: “This joint publication between UNWTO and the Organization of American States highlights case studies...
Music Tourism: Wish You Were Here 2017 (UK Music report)
Wish You Were Here: The Contribution of Live Music to the UK Economy This is an interesting report which will be of interest to students on tourism and event management modules. In it you...
Resources for events, heritage and the creative industries
If you’re looking at heritage, events and the creative industries or cultural tourism you’ll find lots of resources to contribute to your assignments. We’ve highlighted a few below but check the Key Resources for...
Spotlight on Hospitality 2018 (Market Research Report) from the Institute of Hospitality
Spotlight on Hospitality 2018 is the latest market report from the Institute of Hospitality. It includes information about hotels, tourism, food service and human resources. You can download this report as long as...
UNWTO/WTM Ministers’ summit on ‘overtourism’ Nov 2017
Watch the video below. It is 2 hours long. UNWTO / WTM (World Travel Market) Ministers’ Summit – Overtourism: growth is not the enemy, it is how we manage it
Event Management: journal issue about the Eventful City
Event Management [Journal]: the Eventful City Volume 21 issue 5 [2017] of the journal Event Management is focused on Events in Cities - this may be a great issue to check out if you're...
Open Access Resources – Event Manager Blog
The Event Manager Blog is a website launched and maintained by event professionals. As well as blog posts written by events professionals, there are several free resources available on The Event Manager Blog including:...
Documentary: Barcelona and the Trials of 21st Century Overtourism
SKIFT is a company that launched in 2012 that provides global travel industry news and in August 2017 they posted a ten minute documentary on their site about overtourism with a focus on Barcelona....
Logging into Cite Them Right online
Some students have reported issues logging into Cite Them Right via Institution login and we are investigating what the problem may be. Students can continue to log in to Cite Them Right through the...
Travel 2018 New Insights – market research from Euromonitor
Euromonitor Passport (one of our international market research databases) has released a new briefing report 2018 Travel Insights. This report summarises key trends in the travel and tourism industry with topics such as over-tourism,...
Welcome to the library (tourism, hospitality & events)
Welcome to all new students, and of course to all returning students – welcome back. New first years – I will meet you as part of your module TLH121 where I will co-teach with...
Tourism in the news….
There’s been a fair amount of news about the effects of tourism on local residents and on the environment and last night the focus of the BBC Radio 4 programme Moral Maze, was ‘The Morality...
World Tourism Organization Annual Report 2016
UNWTO make many of their publications available for free and they are great source of statistical data for tourism. The Annual Report for 2016 was recently published; is available open access, and gives some...
Market research – analysis on arts & festivals
Euromonitor Passport have recently published some market research analysis for people interested in events, arts, culture and heritage: Arts and Festivals: Balancing the Trade-off between Importing a Global Cultural Brand and Authenticity Using case studies such...