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This article is an update on the chronicle of our tourism research project in Brežice, Slovenia.  Two previous articles, here on our magazine blog are called: Deep-mapping in Slovenia , dateline March 11, 2023 In the Middle of Things , dateline   April 06, 2023   Hand-pump on Wild Chestnut Avenue  In the Field From Sunday evening, May 14, 2023 until the morning of Thursday May 18th we completed the second step of our 3-step project. This was the fieldwork step. We were following the process shown in Table 5.7, page 96 of our book for travel writers in tourism and city branding. The places to explore in the town focussed on the writing plateaus that had been identified by the team during Step 1, the library step and included Wild Chestnut Avenue, The Jazz Bar Café, Huda Pizza and The Posavje Museum Brežice. You can visit the museum's English-language website. Huda Pizza Wild Chestnut Avenue is labelled on Maps as Kostanjev drevored.   It is a flat ...

 A couple of updates to existing pages here on the Travel Writers Online magazine blog  Writers who are activists for the environment, please take a look and add your own books or blogs https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2023/04/environmental-activism-and-travel.html My own wilding mission running alongside the mission to Jupiter's ice moons Day 45 in the the wildflower mission and #JUICE . Do you know the name of these taller ones, please?  https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2023/04/juice-lift-off.html

Travel Writers Online magazine blog is delighted to announce the publication of WORKING DEFINITIONS IN LITERATURE AND TOURISM edited by Sílvia Quinteiro and Maria José Marques WORKING DEFINITIONS IN LITERATURE AND TOURISM   W ORKING DEFINITIONS IN LITERATURE AND TOURISM has brought together many authors and academics who work in the area of literary tourism knowledge to provide researchers with a dictionary of terms and definitions to engage with this field of study.  The publication is now free to download.  "As part of the project, 40 experts were asked to produce a set of over 60 inputs, each defining the concept in their own way. Considering that future readers will have a wide range of backgrounds, the authors were asked to write their entries as a starting point for further research on the topic or topics to which they refer, and so suggestions for further reading are also included. This book is therefore a meeting place for researchers from around the world, wh...

In May 2023 I'll be running a workshop for supervisors of PhD researchers aimed in particular at the Director of Studies. First some headline statistics on PhDs in the UK and England in particular In England, a 3-year full-Time PhD research degree costs 4300 GBP approx. for each year, so that is 4900 EURO = 15000 EUROS in course fees alone. The UK produces 25000 doctoral completions every year. A large university in England might have 500 completions per year Grossing it about 2.4 million EUROS a year Source: Statista, 'The Countries with the most Doctoral Graduates' by Niall McCarthy, Dec 19, 2016.   Level 8 QAA Benchmark A key focus of my PhD Pack is the discipline of writing at doctoral level. I explore this through (i) criticality in writing, (ii) judging this criticality and (iii) raising the quality of the postgraduate's writing to Level 8. Level 8 is doctoral level work from The QAA Benchmark Guidelines (2016) Section 3.2 pp.8-9. Supervisors can u...