Updating my web-site

Fieldwork in Paris

I am just back from fieldwork in Paris, where I went to watch progress on that important tourist site, Notre Dame. You can just see in my photograph the scaffolding around the missing spire, which was only added around 1844 by Viollet-le-Duc to replace the one removed in 1786.  Also did some reconnaissance work at The Hôtel de Lauzun, on the quai d'Anjou of the île Saint-Louis; this private mansion house was designed by Charles Chamois in 1667. Thank you to expert guide, Lio for all his help with this research. 

Now updating my web-site for the publication of our book for researchers, writers and bloggers:

Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place Writing Methodologies

Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding provides tourism students with a practice-based approach to producing researched literary travel writing on an urban destination, using the writing process as a research tool in itself. The book is scientifically supported with full academic references for researchers.

City councils and destination managers are seeking new ways to commission and sponsor professional authors as part of place-branding projects for tourism development. Given the increasing value of such content within the tourism industry, this book provides a cohesive overview of literary travel writing, presenting it as an inquiry process that can be applied by writer-researchers to spaces that have value to them. Travel writing is presented as a methodological process that researchers can apply to their own projects, both in academic settings and in commercial city branding. Examples of literary travel writing are carefully examined throughout the book. Enriched with a wealth of case studies, chapters are presented in such a way that readers can take the work as a model for their own projects.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1032014695/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_JCNW9AD6D3XX0V7KESX3

On Amazon US at https://a.co/d/3Vh84dh

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