SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

🔔 CALL FOR CHAPTERS We invite contributions to an edited volume, "Dark Tourism Rituals and Micro-Rituals: Performance, Negotiation and Meaning-Making" (Channel View Publications). Please send your abstracts to me at [email protected] or Dr. Daniel Olsen at [email protected]. #darktourism

On Halloween Eve (30 Oct, 6pm GMT), join us for a magical journey into tourism’s enchanted side! From festivals & fantasy worlds to heritage, folklore & greener futures, this webinar uncovers how magical tourism is reshaping visitor experiences. ⭐️🪄🏰 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

Glad to be featured in this very comprehensive article by Sneha Mahale published by The New Indian Express on dark tourism, and sharing space with some brilliant friends and experts who work on this topic. www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/ma... #darktourism

Honored to have been one of the speakers today at a session on #Darktourism at the 19th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine at NOLA. I spoke about dark tourism, trauma and mental health and potential areas of intervention. #CISTM19

This is a good example of tourism and marketplace feminism and the timing couldn't have been more bad! As rightly said by the author .."Space tourism is not feminism. It is consumer capitalism, at its most inaccessible". #Spacetourism #ethics www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

The kind of good and encouraging news in life that keeps you going in the midst of academic turmoil and depressing socio-political climate! #AAG2025 #AmericanAssociationofGeographers #AAGRTS #darktourism #tourismgeographies @tourismgeographies.bsky.social

🌏 On "Narco tourism - fascination with true crime, drugs and cartels is popular - tourists should take a moment to consider how they might feel if someone who had murdered their loved ones became a souvenir fridge magnet to remember their country by." theconversation.com/colombia-wan...

Fellow geographers, why are we not talking about this?? 😱😳👇🏼 Google Maps just made the switch from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

Grief has different dimensions and "ecological grief" is the grief felt in relation to experiences or anticipated ecological losses, including the loss of species, ecosystems and meaningful landscapes due to acute or chronic environmental change.

"Global tourism fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2024 with 1.4 billion international tourist arrivals recorded worldwide due to "robust" demand from key markets. A majority of destinations welcomed more international tourists in 2024 than they did before the pandemic..."