Tourism, Travel, Culture and Heritage Research Group (TTCH)

Description

Tourism, Travel, Culture and Heritage exist as individual and interlinked socially produced activities that play an important role in the visitor and creative industries economic sectors of many national economies across the globe. They involve the movement of millions of people annually and impact on the lives of millions of others.

The Tourism, Travel, Culture and Heritage Research Group reflects the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of these topics. It is composed of researchers with a range of research backgrounds, methodological approaches and expertise drawn from both UK and international contexts. The Group has a record of successful supervision of both home and international students and is currently involved in a number of internally and externally funded research projects.

The Group’s mission is to inspire, explore and progress research regarding the multi-faceted nature of tourism, travel, culture and heritage. The areas of expertise covered by the Group’s members include:

• Art history
• British merchant marine travel and marketing
• Cultural heritage
• Dark tourism
• Heritage management
• Identity, selfhood and the body
• Information systems and digital business
• Irish studies
• Mobility and international migration
• Museum studies
• Operations and logistics
• Sustainable tourism and events
• World intangible cultural heritage

The Group applies a number of research approaches, including:

• Auto-ethnography
• Conceptual research
• Deep mapping
• Digital mapping
• Ethnography
• Foucauldian and Deleuzian-based frameworks and methodologies
• Interviews
• Mathematical modelling
• Observation techniques
• Oral history
• Semiotic analysis
• Text mining, data mining and machine learning

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Liverpool John Moores University
Merseyside