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Travel Writing for Tourism Slovene Translation

Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place-Writing Methodologies.  The monograph contributes to the professionalisation of travel writing. Its approach establishes a new connection between tourism and city branding, which will encourage new travel writers and bloggers to produce thoughtful, high-quality content. The book demonstrates that literary travel writing is a research process that an author–researcher can apply in spaces where value is created. This research process extracts, preserves and communicates that value, while also serving the writer as a tool for in-depth exploration of place.  Travel writing as research Travel writing as research is presented as a methodological practice that researchers can learn and apply in their projects, both in academic contexts and in the commercial context of city branding. Examples of literary travel writing from the authors’ research projects are examined, and their effects are further analysed. The monograph contri...

Kindle Unlimited for Identity and Methods

 Kindle Unlimited for Identity and Methods The two books for travel writers are now on Kindle Unlimited for instant download.     Identity is a self-study starter pack for your literary travel writing. It has links to slides and questions. Methods for Travel Writers emerged from the summer school for travel writers and is aimed at university-level creative and non-fiction writers.

PODCASTING

 PODCASTING Travel Writers Online is delighted to announce the publication today of: Jasna Potočnik Topler (2026). COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA IN TOURISM: PODCAST PREPARATION. Totnes: Travel Writers Online. ISBN 978-1-7384914-0-7 along with the Slovenian version  Jasna Potočnik Topler (2026). SPOROČANJE IN MEDIJI V TURIZMU: PRIPRAVA PODKASTA. Totnes: Travel Writers Online. ISBN 978-1-7384914-1-4 For free download of all the resources, please click on the book cover 

Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism available

  Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism is available across many book platforms: Click image to view on Amazon in the US As a Kindle book, ready for immediate download - please click on icon below As an E-Book from the Google Play Bookstore - click on image below to visit store -  And direct from the publishers, Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis group - button below

What will tourism look like in the 2030s?

 Publication Annoucement 10 April 2026  INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE NARRATIVES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN TOURISM 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 experience. This book for tourism, hospitality, and heritage management explores these converging areas in a way that will inform your own studies and research. Local communities and local inhabitants are at the heart of every tourism story as sustainable tourism development is fundamentally dependent on the active participation and endorsement of local communities. The locals are the best protectors of the sociocultural and ecological resources upon which the tourism offer is developed. Their inclusion is not merely an ethical imperative but a valuable necessity. True sustainability can only be achieved when the interests, knowledge and well-being of local pop...

SUMMER SCHOOL OF GOOD STORIES

We are pleased to invite you and your students to participate in the Summer School of Good Stories: Literary, Film and Wine Tourism, organised by the University of Maribor, Faculty of Tourism in cooperation with 'The University of Zadar, Department of Applied Communication Studies, and held in Brežice, Slovenia. Blended Intensive Programme The Summer School is designed as a blended intensive programme (BIP) and focuses on storytelling as a key tool in contemporary tourism, with particular attention to literary, film and wine tourism. It brings together academic perspectives, practical workshops and field-based experiences, while encouraging international cooperation and co-creation. The physical part of the programme will take place at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Tourism in Brežice from 23 August to 29 August 2026. The virtual component will be held on 20th August and on 31 August 2026. Please find attached the timetable and the Learning Agreement, which provide detailed ...

Ecosystems for literature and art tourism experiences

Ecosystems for literature and art tourism experiences - ELATE  Webinar February 24th, 2026, at 10 AM (Portugal time zone), Dr Charles Mansfield (UK) CiTUR Algarve ( Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation , University of Algarve ) are delighted to invite you to attend this free online webinar. Dr Charles Mansfield is an independent academic who has been teaching at universities since 1995. He is a freelance researcher and writer. Charles completed a major, funded research project for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique with the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on digital heritage management. He was also a research academic at the University of Edinburgh from January 2005 to July 2009, where he completed an AHRC-funded research project to digitise medieval literary texts. He is the co-author of Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding : Urban Place Writing Methodologies , published with Routledge, Taylor & Francis. His PhD, published i...

PowerPoints for Textbook

  Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism Please click on image to watch the playlist on YouTube PowerPoints for Textbook Users When you choose the textbook for your teaching then re-usable PowerPoint slides are available for 14 of the 18 chapters; 7 of them have slide scripts, too. The slides are CC-BY which means you can re-format, re-use and share without copyright worries. Please include the original book reference as a final slide in your copies. This is provided for you at the end of each PowerPoint. Here is a checklist to help you plan your module with these slides and the chapters from the book  Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism. Chapter Title, Author(s) and Abstract Notes     Chapter 1:  01-Tourism in the 2030s: Sustainability and Technology. Author: Dr Mehmet Emin Baynazoglu ·         This chapter explores how sust...

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