In fairness the #HE sector is in fine shape and this will have very few negative impacts... NOT!! search.app/rCKaw

Ex-world boxing champ Jane Couch's plea to restore #Fleetwood #Pier, #Lancs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵

Pleased to have a chapter in this book. If interested, the code THTM35 gets you 35 percent off via the Goodfellows website. #Tourism

23rd November 2025 10.52

'Woman's bid to give grandparents last dance at Blackpool ballroom' 🥲 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Morning all. Whitby, 1960s No image credit, from Si Jubbs Found Series. www.instagram.com/sijubbphotog...

Current weather mood. A chilly start in Miller Park this morning. Pic: Lynn Fielding

Do fun and politics mix? Can we or should we ‘leave our cares behind’ on holiday? It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight Bites question. " #GoodTourism " #tourism #travel #fun #politics www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/11/fun-...

Stopped twice on motorway & had a look from this tower.

Long shadows in Lancashire. #Barton #Preston.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Lancashire stiling. #Parlick

Good to meet up with old friends in the Black Horse in #Preston today. The city was busy. @PubMaverik @BIDPreston

BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

Reform in Lancashire threatens closing five day centres and five care homes, with “reprovision” forcing disabled or older adults (including a 106-year-old) into alternative support.  🧵1/3

This chimes with the experiences of young people I know.

Pink-footed Geese arriving at dawn, North Norfolk - framed ready for my exhibition this weekend. Painted in sub-zero conditions and ice crystals have left their own marks in the watercolour washes

theconversation.com/how-authorit... The alternative reality of #authoritarian states.

Coastal stilin'

Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance

New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process.

The moors above Preston this morning, you can see the city on the horizon in the last photo. @blogpreston.co.uk

UK's sense of division reaches new high as culture war tensions grow, study finds | King's College London share.google/iXcfejXUeZih...

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

Sad... search.app/z6m7n

A very interesting read on #wealth in the #UK. theconversation.com/the-uks-weal... '...half of UK families have no net wealth at all, with debts outweighing assets for 40% of households.'

Two men sunbathing, August bank holiday, Blackpool, 1971, by Don McPhee.

Grief pilgrimage and social prescribing: geography of healing blog.geographydirections.com/2025/10/29/g...

Cardamom Tented Camp among the world’s most responsible tourism projects according to the International Centre for Responsible Tourism. " #GoodTourism " #Cambodia #responsibletourism #sustainabletourism #sustainability www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/11/card...

4th November 2025 07.12

A walk on the hills today. #Parlick #Chipping #Lancashire

Nooooooo!! :(

In 'Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions', mass #tourism is a "dynamic cultural & social phenomenon that touches everyone", tourists have "humanity", and hosts have "agency". In an era of 'critical tourism studies', that's refreshing. #GoodTourism www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/10/tour...

Pleased to have a chapter in this book. If interested, the code THTM35 gets you 35 percent off via the Goodfellows website. #Tourism

'Wolves' just down the road from where I live apparently.

What is good tourism? “#GoodTourism” & “GT” #Travel Sep-Oct 2025 Welcome to a wrap of “Good Tourism” & “GT” Travel #news, #insights, and #experiences shared by friends and Partners of ‘The “Good Tourism” Blog’. www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/10/what...

Thundery Sky, Embleton Acrylic on canvas www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...

📢 Together with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), we’ve urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rethink the idea of the proposed international student levy. Read more: loom.ly/VCyzGDg [1/3]

I enjoyed attending and presenting at the annual TMI convention, hosted by the University of Lancashire Business School, today. My talk was on #publicvalue as a way to consider and talk about tourism, based on recent research into coastal Cumberland.

A walk in Barton, Preston, Lancashire...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... An interesting podcast if you have an hour. #Labour #UK

How do imagination and history merge in tourism? Our new Annals of Tourism Research paper explores how #historicalfiction offers the lure and blur of the real. Freely available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The case we consider is the Cragg Vale Coiners and #TheGallowsPole. #Tourism

How #Hull went from UK's 'worst town' to world gem. #Placemaking #placeism. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Late summer evening light over the Mawddach Estuary from Aran Fawddwy #442Mountains

We will, we will Broch you #IronAge #archaeology 👇👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

REF team delays research culture pilot results ahead of ‘reset’. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Glasgow Necropolis this evening.

Pootleing along…

loom.ly/T-7pw68 Report on the economic impact of #HE. 'For every £1 of public money invested in the higher education sector across the UK, £14 is put back into the economy.' The total economic impact of the sector on the UK economy is more than £265 billion.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p... 'Jo Grady [UCU] said the white paper proposals suggested the Labour Party had “doubled down on the disastrous tuition-fees funding model, which created the crisis the sector is currently facing"'. She also questions the international student levy.