Prof Greg Richards on academic silos, localism, overtourism, and modernity

Greg Richards thinks more of us should lift our gaze from our narrow academic, business, and local concerns. We should scan the horizons of what we (think we) know, and try harder to understand the primordial instinct we have to travel and the human incentives that drive the tourism industry.

Professor Richards is the subject of the first in a series of Tourism’s Horizon Interviews. For this “Good Tourism” Insight, Jim Butcher summarises highlights of his in-depth interview with Prof Richards. [The full transcripts of the Tourism’s Horizon Interviews are available on Substack.]

Contents

• Who is Professor Greg Richards?
• Tourism in the universities
• Widening research horizons
• Localism = authentic?
• ‘Overtourism’ or ‘overtoeristisering’?
• Mass tourism and modernity
• ‘Chance encounters and serendipitous experiences’
• What do you think?
• About the author
• About the Tourism’s Horizon Interviews
• Featured image (top of post)