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Fieldwork in Brežice, Slovenia Our first day of fieldwork was Monday 15th May 2023. We made a planned walk into town along Old Justice Street, Ulica stare pravde , and made a stop at the water tower, Vodovodni stolp Brežice. The weather was brightening all the time after a couple of rainy days. The Posavje I made my first visit to The Posavje Museum in Brežice just before 5 o'clock on Tuesday 16th May 2023. That was my reconnaissance visit aiming to look in almost every room for first impressions and to see if any artefact would stay in my memory for later detailed investigation. I also had in mind the painting from the museum's web list, of the hay-drying racks and buckwheat in flower by Miroslav Kugler because we had discussed that on the dialogue platform before my visit to the university tourism faculty. Alas, I could not find Kugler's painting but I wanted to keep moving rather than make a focussed study at this initial stage. An Ellipse of Plateaus On Wednesday ...

We are delighted to annouce the publication of Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place Writing Methodologies with Routledge, Taylor & Francis  Dr Charlie Mansfield and Dr Jasna Potočnik Topler  Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding provides tourism students with a practice-based approach to producing researched literary travel writing on an urban destination, using the writing process as a research tool in itself. The book is scientifically supported with full academic references for researchers. City councils and destination managers are seeking new ways to commission and sponsor professional authors as part of place-branding projects for tourism development. Given the increasing value of such content within the tourism industry, this book provides a cohesive overview of literary travel writing, presenting it as an inquiry process that can be applied by writer-researchers to spaces that have value to them. Travel writing is presented as a methodo...