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 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...

Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place Writing Methodologies  Travel Writers Book Launch Totnes Totnes author, Dr Charlie Mansfield launched his new book for travel writers at Totnes Public Library, Devon UK at 11am on Friday 3rd March 2023.  The previous Zoom presentation for the European launch, on 10th January 2023, introduced the 3-step process for travel writers and researchers to engage with DMOs, city councils and tourism stakeholders. It gave an overview of dialogue journaling from Chapter 5 of our 2023 book, Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding , Abingdon: Routledge. Please click on the icon below to access the slides in Google Slides (works better if you have a Google Account).  Recording of Book Talk from Zoom Please fast-forward 4 minutes to avoid Zoom Admin Part 2 including question time

Blogging as a Discovery Instrument  Do researchers discover destination knowledge or create it?  This question has been at the heart of our discussions over the last five years and gradually, through conferences and meetings, travel writing has emerged as both a method of inquiry for us in tourism and area studies and as a professional practice for the synthesis of new knowledge, thanks, often, to the use of narrative.  This travel writing blog is our discovery instrument and our research practice that will yield new knowledge on place, destination image, visitor practices and tourism knowledge management. We have been teaching this on Masters programmes for Travel Writers and Content Authors across Europe and the UK.  Routledge, Taylor & Francis In 2023 we published our ideas on literary travel writing with Routledge, Taylor & Francis, as a textbook and research monograph. To help lecturers to integrate this book into their teaching, learning and assessment ...