Tourism

Tourism Research Centre delivers Festival Academy for British Council in Western Balkans 

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The Tourism Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier has excellent working relationship with the British Council, the United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. In February 2025, Professor Jane Ali-Knight travelled to Belgrade, to lead a week-long Festival…
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Professor Kerr gives Keynote Lecture on ‘Business of Science Festivals’ in Mexico

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Professor Gary Kerr, an academic within the Tourism Research Centre, has given the Keynote Lecture at the Association of Mexican Museums and Centres for Science & Technology (AMMCCYT) Annual Colloquium 2024, hosted by Centro de Ciencias Explora in León de…
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Revolutionising Travel: ChatGPT and Generative AI Usher in New Era of Automation

Person taking a picture on their mobile phone of the city as the sun sets.

There’s a new poster child for generative AI – ChatGPT – that is taking travel and the world by storm. With travel highly digitalised, where 66% of all bookings are conducted online in 2023, disruption from generative AI is already…
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Edinburgh Napier hosts the annual British Council’s Creative Leadership Programme in partnership with Counterculture LLP

Group picture outside the V&A Dundee showing the cultural leaders with Professors Jane Ali Knight and Gary Kerr

In a society that is constantly evolving, and becoming more technologically savvy, there is a constant need to nurture skills such as creativity and leadership among individuals and industry professionals. Creativity is an important skill to nurture as it inspires…
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Tourism is Taking Off After Two Years of Restrictions

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Global and local travel restrictions during lockdown saw the tourism industry left in a vulnerable position. Now starting to recover, a symposium taking place on Friday 29 April 2022 at Edinburgh Napier Business School ‘Tourism 2030 and Beyond: New Normal…
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Unlock & Revive: Involving People Living with Dementia in Online Cultural and Heritage Events

A new report created by ENU researchers illustrates optimal ways to create accessible online cultural and heritage events to benefit people living with dementia and their carers. The report, entitled Unlock & Revive, is a multi-disciplinary action-research project set up…
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Placements can offer any business a real benefit in tough times

Despite the uncertainty of recent months, 100 undergraduates from Business Management, Marketing Management and Hospitality, Tourism and Events programmes have had the opportunity to apply the knowledge they had acquired at university into a work placement. The results have been…
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