In this revised edition I am going to share with you the social media pages (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) that correspond directly to the vast collection of sports, leisure, heritage and tourism organisations, associations, networks, publishers, books, journals etc. In its rawest form this valuable flagship directory could be used as a starter package for those new to the glamour of social media (who to follow), or for those who simply want to tap into the plethora of relevant resources available at their disposal. Primarily it is for academics, practitioners, researchers and students in the fields of sports, leisure, heritage and tourism. This is my contribution.
Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group – Anthropology of Tourism is a network of tourism scholars seeking to formally establish itself as an interest group of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Ashgate Geography – Ashgate’s Human Geography, Environment, Planning and Transportation lists comprise an international and interdisciplinary range of research monographs and edited collections, including practical handbooks and reference volumes. Featuring well established series in a range of areas, including Economic and Cultural Geography, Environment, Planning, Tourism Heritage and Transport.
Ashgate Information and Cultural Management – Academic monographs, textbooks, reference and practical books written by and for researchers, cultural management professionals and students of information science, museum studies, and heritage management.
Association for Tourism and Leisure Education – The Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) was established in 1991 to develop transnational educational initiatives in tourism and leisure.
Association of Critical Heritage Studies – The Association of Critical Heritage Studies is a network of scholars and researchers working in the broad and interdisciplinary field of heritage and museum studies. Its primary aim is to promote heritage as an area of critical enquiry.
BBC Fast Track – The series with the latest news about the travel industry and advice on the latest deals and destinations, flights and holidays, for business travellers and tourists.
British Society of Sports History - The British Society of Sports History purpose is to promote the study of the history of sport, activities include encouraging research within and beyond academic settings, collaborating with the museum and heritage sector and promoting the study of the history of sport in higher and further education.
Cambridge Heritage Research Group - The Cambridge Heritage Research Group meets once a week in term-time for discussions on the theme of heritage. The program includes talks by invited speakers as well as members of the group (students and researchers from the fields of Archaeology, Social Anthropology etc.).
Channel View Publications - Publishes textbooks and research monographs in the field of tourism studies.
Critical Tourism – Thinking critically and thoughtfully about tourism and travel.
Crossovers - A website for conversations about creativity, tourism and economic development.
Culture @ the Olympics - Culture @ the Olympics is a non-profit magazine, a space where academics and practitioners involved with the Olympic Movement can publish brief commentaries, position pieces, original papers, presentations, working papers, and previously published papers, which may no longer have a visibility in their original form.
Economic and Social Research Council - The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s main organisation for funding research and training in economic and social sciences.
Economic Development Resource Centre - The University of Greenwich’s Economic Development Resource Centre (EDReC) creates the ‘thinking space’ needed to build on innovative research within the university and to test new ideas and approaches to local economic development.
Elsevier Business - Latest news from Elsevier’s Business, Management, Marketing and Accounting journals, including: calls for papers, special issues, conferences etc.
Emerald Tourism and Hospitality - Latest Tourism & Hospitality research from an international publisher of books and journals.
English Heritage - English Heritage exists to protect and promote England’s spectacular historic environment and ensure that its past is researched and understood.
European Tourism Futures Institute - The European Tourism Futures Institute (ETFI) is painting pictures about the future of tourism by compiling future scenarios in close collaboration with key representatives from the industry, governmental organisations and researchers and experts from various fields.
Events Management: An Introduction - Events Management: An Introduction was published by Routledge in February 2012. This major new introductory textbook is the first to fully explore the multi-disciplinary nature of events management and to provide all the practical skills and professional knowledge students need to succeed in the events industry.
Geographical Association - The Geographical Association is a UK-based subject association for geography teachers and educators.
Heritage and Social Media - Heritage and Social Media: Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture was published by Routledge in June 2012. Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage.
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network - The Higher Education Academy (HEA) supports a large network of learning and teaching practitioners involved in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism throughout the UK.
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Olympics Special Interest Group - The Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Olympics Special Interest Group provides a forum for sharing ideas, information, resources and good practice, enabling us to capitalise on the opportunities the 2012 Olympiad brings and to ensure that we gain a rich legacy from it.
Institute for Dark Tourism Research - The Institute for Dark Tourism Research (iDTR), based at the University of Central Lancashire, is a world-leading academic centre for dark tourism scholarship, research and teaching.
Institute of Transport and Tourism - The Institute of Transport and Tourism (ITT) are a small institute based at the University of Central Lancashire, with big ambitions to make leisure travel more sustainable.
International Centre for Responsible Tourism - The International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT) brings together all those who support the Principles of the Cape Town Declaration, there are sister organisations in a number of countries and others pursuing the idea of using tourism to make better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit.
International Centre for the Study of Planned Events - The International Centre for the Study of Planned Events based at the Queen Margaret University is dedicated to providing government, event professionals and sponsors with scientific evidence of the linkages between planned events and education, health, wealth, environmental sustainability and social cohesion.
Leisure Studies Association - The Leisure Studies Association provides a unique multi-disciplinary meeting and communication forum open to researchers, practitioners and students in all areas of leisure studies around the world.
Marketing for Tourism & Hospitality - The aim of this site is to allow TL2008 students at University of Central Lancashire to connect and share resources with regard to national and international issues that affect and influence the marketing of hospitality organisations and the tourism sector.
#media2012 - #media2012 is a community of reporters that aims to create a social media legacy for the London 2012 Games.
Network of European Regions for a Sustainable and Competitive Tourism - NECSTouR is the Network of European Region for a Sustainable and Competitive Tourism gathering 28 Tourism Regional Authorities associated to 30 representatives of the academic and business sectors.
Palgrave Macmillan Sociology - Publisher of award-winning Sociology textbooks and research monographs.
Podium - Podium is the Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games, promoting Olympic and Paralympic related opportunities for, and engagement by, the sectors.
Politics in Sport - Discussing the off the field sporting issues.
Regional Studies Association - The Regional Studies Association supports and connects research and policy making engaged in the analysis of regions and sub national issues.
Regional Studies Association – Mega-Events, Regional Development and Regeneration Research Network - The aim of the research network is to situate mega-event led regeneration within regional studies and both to theorise the concept and transfer accumulating knowledge and develop methods of planning, impact evaluation and measurement of their effects over time.
Routledge Geography, Planning and Urban Studies - Routledge Geography, Planning & Urban Studies is a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the humanities and social sciences.
Routledge Media and Cultural Studies - Keeping you up-to-date with news and offers from Routledge Media and Cultural Studies books and journals.
Routledge Museum and Heritage Studies - Bringing you all the latest news and offers from Routledge Museum and Heritage Studies books and journals.
Routledge Sociology - News and updates from the Sociology list of the worldwide academic books & journals publisher.
Routledge Strategic Studies - Routledge is the leading publisher in Military, Defence, Security, and Strategic Studies.
Rural and Regional Research Group (RRRG) - The Rural and Regional Research Group (RRRG) based at the University of Lincoln is a group of researchers interested in the characteristics of places and how their connectivity influences economic development policy, business performance, and sustainable value creation.
Sage Research Methods - Latest information on SAGE Research Methods books and journals.
Sage Sociology - Latest information on SAGE Sociology books and journals.
Sage Theory, Culture and Society - Theory, Culture & Society is a major international journal with high impact in the areas of sociology, cultural theory and social theory.
Slum Tourism Network – slumtourism.net is a website aimed at bringing together and creating an international network of academics and practitioners working on tourism in deprived urban and rural areas.
Soccernomics - Soccernomics Ltd is the book (second edition published by HarperSport in May 2012), the blog and the consultancy.
Sport and Society – British Library - Sport and Society pages at the British Library. Examining the Olympics and Paralympics through the lens of social science.
Sport Heritage - Discussion and dissemination of sport heritage topics, issues, and research.
Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand - The Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) was founded in November 1995. The principal aim of SMAANZ is to encourage scholarly inquiry into sport management related research and to provide the opportunity to present results from this research.
Taylor & Francis Sport, Leisure and Tourism Studies - Latest news from Taylor & Francis Sport, Leisure and Tourism Studies books and journals.
The #culturalvalue Initiative - The #culturalvalue Initiative is a collaborative research endeavour into cultural value & cultural policy.
The International Centre for Sports History and Culture - The International Centre for Sports History and Culture was established at De Montfort University in 1996 and is today widely acknowledged as the leading centre for the study of sport history in the world.
The Olympics: The Basics - A website resource to accompany the book The Olympics: The Basics published by Routledge in January 2012.
The Tourism Society - The Tourism Society is the professional membership body for people working in all sectors of the visitor economy.
2050: Tomorrow’s Tourism - 2050: Tomorrow’s Tourism was published by Channel View Publications in June 2012. This textbook paints a picture of 2050 as scenarios helps leaders understand possible change, how change will occur and the consequences, threats and opportunities of the future of tourism.
Tourism & Events: Society, Culture and the Visitor Experience - The aim of this site is to allow TL3140 students at University of Central Lancashire to connect and share resources with regard to the social scientific study of tourism, events, and leisure experiences with the cultural condition of society.
Tourism Education Futures Initiative - Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) seeks to be the leading, forward-looking network that inspires, informs and supports tourism educators and students to passionately and courageously transform the world for the better.
Tourism Futures - All about the many futures of travel, tourism, leisure and recreation. Tourism Futures is the international web-portal for tourism and leisure research.
Tourism Geographies - Tourism Geographies – An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment is an academic journal published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Tourism Management Institute - The Tourism Management Institute is the destination section of the Tourism Society.
Tourism and National Identities: An International Perspective - An information page about the book Tourism and National Identities: An International Perspective, published by Routledge in March 2011.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
United Nations World Tourism Organisation - The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
Visit Britain - Visit Britain is Britain’s national tourism agency, responsible for marketing Britain worldwide and developing Britain’s visitor economy.
World Regional Geography - World Regional Geography: Human Mobilities, Tourism Destinations, Sustainable Environments was published by Kendall-Hunt in August 2011. A completely new, expanded and revised version of World Geography of Travel and Tourism: A Regional Approach.
World Travel & Tourism Council - The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is the forum for business leaders in the Travel & Tourism industry.
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