I bless the rains down in Africa.

🔥 SAVE THE DATE 🌏 Atlas Critical Tourism Studies-Asia Pacific is pleased to announce that its In-Between Regional Conference will be hosted by Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto on 9-10 March, 2026.

🚩 A Call for Papers 🌏 Special Issue in Tourism Geographies 🧭 Geographies of Personalisation and Immersion in Tourism Experiencescapes 🔗 See full details: www.tgjournal.com/personalisat...

✅ Cheer, J. M., & Mostafanezhad, M. (2025). On the Verge: the State-of-the-Art in tourism geographies. doi.org/10.1080/1461...

🆓 FREE to download. 🔗 Lerfald, M. (2025). Beyond the dichotomy: revisiting endogenous-exogenous dynamics and place-based leadership in second-home development. Tourism Geographies, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Rural tourism is a viable pathway towards developing livelihoods + economic diversification, and central to rural revitalisation. The relevance of countryside capital has renewed importance as communities look to identify areas for comparative advantage. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Szili, G., Butler, G., & Adie, B. A. (2024). From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 85–101. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS

Ironside, R., & Smith, F. (2024). Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 68–84. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS

Zhang, Q., & Zhong, S. (2024). The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 49–67. doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Hillier, J., & Fu, S. (2024). Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 31–48. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS

Dan Knox (2024). The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 17–30. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS

Martini, A., Sharma, N., & Timothy, D. J. (2025). Dark tourism and spectral geographies: ghosts, memories, and the rupturing of absence and presence. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 1–16. doi.org/10.1080/1461... FREE ACCESS to June 30, 2025

Skinner, J. (2025). Haunted by Horace? Twilight tours, guides and the revival of the Gothic. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 120–144. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS

Varnajot, A., & Salim, E. (2024). The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 102–119. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS

Tourism Geographies Vol. 27, Issue 1, 2025 is out now. A Special Issue, "Dark Tourism and Spectral Geographies" Guest editors: 🔸 Anna Martini, Università di Bologna 🔸 Nitasha Sharma, The University of Alabama 🔸 Dallen Timothy, Arizona State University

🌏 INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION (IGU) Regional Conference 17-21 August 2026, Istanbul University www.irc2026.org/en/ 🚩 IGU COMMISSION ON TOURISM, LEISURE & GLOBAL CHANGE invites session proposals ⏰ Deadline 31 July 2025 📩 Submit a proposal - scan QR code or www.irc2026.org/SessionForm/

🏝️ The third edition of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Academic Symposium will take place during the GSTC2025 Global Sustainable Tourism Conference in Fiji (August 5–8, 2025)

🚩Time has proved Musk to be a human sink - efficiently draining away value from any particular thing he sits atop 🚩There is remarkably little curiosity about what version of govt elicited widespread acclaim for making America great again Via @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/the-good-soc...

Gaza as a tourist zone? “Gaza is on the sea, it has the best climate, a phenomenal location. Everything is great. I looked at pictures; the place looked like a giant ghost town. But you can do incredible things with it.” US President Donald Trump sarajevotimes.com/gaza-as-a-to...

Two new episodes are now available in The Tourism Geographies Podcast. shows.acast.com/tourism-geog...

“Write better papers, write fewer papers.” A mantra for 2025.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Commentary: The destruction of monuments, artworks and irreplaceable archives in times of war is an erosion of civilization itself, the attacks born of the same motives that also drive genocide.

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"Landmark laws across the country have come into existence to preserve things we deem culturally significant. But they don't always protect what we actually want to save," Michael Kimmelman, our architecture critic, writes.

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G’day from Sydney.

Desperately seeking chips on Sydney Harbour.

West is best 🌞. The bluest of skies 🩵 @Western Sydney University.

Writing retreat in the Blue Mountains nearly over with colleagues from Western Sydney University!

I’m really loving the troll-free bliss of Bluesky 🩵!

Bluesky dreaming 💭

Yes. Oui. はい. 是的. Si. نعم. 예. Ja. да.

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