Covid-19

Volunteer Tourism and Coronavirus

As workplaces close around the world, we are beginning to question the repercussions for those who are losing their income as a result. But in few places could the impact be so detrimental as within the volunteer tourism sector. We…
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We are thinking small, and that’s not a bad thing

I write this on a glorious Saturday afternoon, within earshot of Tynecastle Park and Murrayfield. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has replaced the usual atmosphere of excitement and anticipation (or despondency if you are an Aberdeen fan) with an eerie, anxious…
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League Reconstruction – Short-term Fix or Long-term Solution?

Arrigo Sacchi famously suggested that football was the most important of the least important things in life. We see this played out in the midst of a global pandemic, as football continues to hold a disproportionate position in the national…
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Working from home is a positive – some thoughts for business

Enforced isolation and the associated loneliness being experienced by many home workers mean that proportionally more workers are likely to find themselves affected by the behavioural response known as learned helplessness.