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Exeter Word Hoard Launch 1am 1.1.26  On 1 st January 2026 a new place-making research project is launched, this time in Exeter. The project is called,  Exeter Word Hoard . We plan to continue using the method of Dialogue Journaling (*please see references below) to uncover specific places documented in the personal papers available in Exeter University Library’s Special Collections, through work with the Torquay and RAMM museums and through citizen-science. The ongoing work is communicated using dialogue journaling via this established magazine blog, Travel Writers Online (ISSN 2753-7803). We have a WhatsApp Community group; this is a citizen science method that was pioneered for a place-writing research project in the port of Ouistreham in France; this is fully documented in the Routledge book by  Chowdhury, Mansfield, & Potočnik Topler, 2026 (full reference below).  WELL Templates You can find the templates for the WELL documents online here on the public...

 Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism  Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism holding page. This post will be updated in 2026 when full details of the new textbook are announced by Routledge. The ISBNs and the main DOI are now available for you to cite the new book in references and bibliographies: Chowdhury, D., Mansfield, C. & Potočnik Topler, J. (Eds.) (2026). Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism. Abingdon: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003747185. Hardback ISBN: 978104125536 Paperback ISBN: 9781041255376 E-book ISBN: 9781003747185  And we are delighted to share the book cover design below: Please login with your Gmail account and follow this page. Then please share with colleagues and post a Comment below. What will tourism look like in the 2030s?  Tourism destination development will take sustainability as a given. Social media and emerging technologies will be integrated into the stories of co-created visitor exper...

Writing on the Move: Form, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel Writing Edited by Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan 272 pages, bibliography and index.  ISBN  9781836953555  $135.00/£104.00  Hb (February 2026) eISBN 9781836953562 eBook Februray 2026  The practice of writing typically requires stasis and travel writing emerges from movement. From the concurrent physical and emotional journeys of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach to the instantaneous digital discourses of contemporary urban travellers, and from the challenges of writing in the extreme conditions of the Antarctic to those of updating guidebooks via Google Streetview, this book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts.  Writing on the Move  asks questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ and what counts as travel writing in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility. Introduction:  Travel Writing and M...

 Journal of Tourism & Arts The magazine blog of Travel Writers Online is delighted to announce the launch of a new academic journal for tourism and the arts. Please click on logo above to read submissions advice for JTA . The  Journal of Tourism & Arts  is an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and transnational journal which aims to critically analyse the relationships, tensions, representations and possibilities between tourism and all forms of the arts. The journal is a platform for the dissemination of original research on the interface between tourism and art, from the high arts to the popular arts in their multiple expressions (e.g. visual and performing arts, digital art, photography, crafts, music, literature, cinema, street art, culinary arts). The aim is to provide a forum for researchers, PhD students, public and private organisations for contributions on the following themes (or other, related topics): The relationships among and between art, identit...

This week I made a wonderful discovery, an application called Recite . It is a tool that lets you check that all your citations are in your list of References, and vice versa, that everything in your list of References has been cited in the body of your article. It also checks that you have conformed exactly to Styles, for example APA 7th Style.    Test, Fix and Repeat Recite is accessed through your Google Account in the Chrome web browser. Readers of the Travel Writers Online magazine blog probably already have a free Google Account. The makers of Recite let you run a free test on a short essay, but you can signup for just a month for the price of a couple of cups of coffee. This monthly sub lets you upload whatever you’re writing as many times as you like. This process of test, fix and repeat is very useful as you resolve each of the issues with your in-text referencing. I wish I’d discovered Recite in the spring when we were working as a team of three on a researc...