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  Call for chapters   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 in the stories of co-created visitor experience. Are you working in these converging areas?     Following the success of our research monograph with Routledge and its teaching companion, we are looking for contributors for a new collection.   Click to view   Download free eBook   Chapters of up to 8000 words, including references. Each chapter to explore a tourism or hospitality development as a case study with details of underpinning theory. Provide example questions and answers for students, and PowerPoint® slides for lecturers to use your chapter in their modules.     Download and Submit in WORD Document Timeline for Chapter...

A Case Study on Nantes This paper proposes new practices in place-making for writers of narrative non-fiction and for destination organisations that commission content authors.  Full-text now available on Toureme Substack at  https://open.substack.com/pub/toureme/p/literary-geographies-for-regenerative-073?r=21sgn4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true   Place Graslin, Nantes. Photo: C. Mansfield 14:38 Thurs 6 April 2017 Making a Literary Geography Rather than undertake literary criticism on the works that present the branded destination, in this case study Nantes, a process of seeking out the potential catalysts for toureme moments (Mansfield 2015) offers the researcher a more economical and focussed approach to finding locations that have narrative value for the travel writer and blogger. [...]  _______________________________________________________________ <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.world/@charlesmansfield">Mastodon...

I am just finishing reading Rossi’s Régine ; the story did drift into an autobiography with no real plot. From a literary tourism point of view the streets in the district to the east of the city centre of Nantes might hold a fascination for followers of Rossi’s writing or for the diaspora of those who grew up during the twentieth century in the city.  I plan to start his later book before the fieldtrip to Nantes.