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 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...

  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. Follow this webpage for updates, please https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/call-for-chapters.html Please scroll right down for updates... Book production timeline continued at the end of this page... 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 qu...

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 no longer available.    Place Graslin, Nantes. Photo: C. Mansfield 14:38 Thurs 6 April 2017 _______________________________________________________________ <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.world/@charlesmansfield">Mastodon</a>

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.