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Resources for Writers We are pleased to provided these resources for 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. Please click button above to access the resources on Google Drive 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 click on ...

Detective Chief Inspector Maigret  If, like me, you like Rowan Atkinson in the role of the French Detective Chief Inspector or DCI Maigret you will enjoy the TV drama episode, called: Maigret's Dead Man , often repeated in the US and UK.  If you can’t wait for the next showing, then read the new Penguin translation that came out in March 2016 or at least take a free sneek preview on Google Play Books here:  It is a perfect story for movie-induced tourism fans and for literary tourism fans alike because of the precision of the opening scene in Paris looking across the river Seine.  Maigret is aloft in his office at number 36, Quai des Orfèvres. On the telephone, a man is speaking, he says he is not far from the police headquarters of the Police Judiciaire; the mysterious caller explains his location in the telephone booth of a bar:  - Just across from your office. A minute ago I could see your window. Quai des Grands-Augustins. There’s a small bar, you’ll know it...

In our research on how to turn literary travel writing projects into research projects, Jasna and I have developed a process of journaling with dialogue at the centre. This dialogue might start with reading an academic article that proposes a new theory in tourism or it could be an interview with someone in the industry.  Capture the Catalyst As promptly as possible, this catalyst is captured in the online file-card index, and a section of affirmative journaling is written up while the idea is still stimulating and challenging. In our experiments I have made a page template for MS OneNote with named cells in a table of prompts to gather the journaling process, please see the picture of my Zettelkasten template below for MS OneNote: Next, of course, we need to test our processual methodology over and over again in professional projects for DMOs and with destination stakeholders to make it robust for the industry. We are planning to explore a few tourism towns, beginning with Zadar. ...

Microsoft OneNote as a Journaling Tool I have just presented this guest lecture to a group of Masters postgraduates on my development of Microsoft OneNote as a journaling template for travel writing projects. I was inspired by the Zettelkasten concept of keeping your journaling and returning to it to index your pages so that you can find older notes and develop them into travel stories.  You can click below on the  Link to view slides in Google Drive