Samantha Chaperon

Analysis of the UK Government's 2011 tourism policy

This review considers the UK Governments 2011 tourism policy document. The policy was produced during a period of public sector restructuring in the UK and also during the global economic crisis, which began in 2008. The policy sets out a number of reforms to the governance of tourism at the national and local levels, which aim to increase the level of private sector involvement in leading and developing the tourism sector and to reduce the sectors dependence on public funding. During a period of economic slowdown in the UK, the tourism industry can make a significant contribution to growth, but it is not yet clear whether these proposed reforms will support or impede the future development of the tourism industry in the UK.

Tourism in contemporary cities: 6th ITSA Biennial Conference

This special section of the International Journal of Tourism Cities (IJTC) has been compiled following the 6th Biennial Conference of the International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA), held at the University of Greenwich, London, England from17 to 19 August 2016. This was the first time that the conference had been held in Europe and it provided an opportunity to meet, hear from and network with tourism scholars and professionals from across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and North and South America. ITSA has a mission to encourage interaction and cooperation between scholars from developing and developed countries and the conference was successful in attracting around 200 delegates from 29 countries. The theme of the conference was “Tourism in contemporary cities”. Within this broad theme, four sub-themes were included: “Tourism cities and urban tourism”, “The Chinese market for European tourism”, “River, cruise and maritime tourism” and “Heritage tourism in cities”. The sub-themes were chosen to reflect the unique location of the conference on the UNESCO Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, and London which is Europe’s most visited tourist destination (Euromonitor, 2017). During the conference, two special sessions on “dark tourism and cities” and “tourism and communist heritage” were also presented, which have led to additional special issues of the IJTC.

Dependency theory, tourism

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