FEATURED AUTHOR

Charlie Mansfield

Principal
UK Management College, HE Provider, Manchester UK

Dr Charlie Mansfield has been a university lecturer since 1995 and taught travel writing at the University of Plymouth in Tourism Management, where he was also co-director of the heritage research centre. He completed a major, funded research project for the CNRS with the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in digital heritage management and was a research academic with the University of Edinburgh.

Subjects: Tourism, Hospitality and Events

Biography

Dr Charlie Mansfield works with research teams in cultural tourism development. He has just completed an EU Interreg project on ethnobotany on the Adriatic coast. He specialises in implementing methodologies for researchers to achieve direct public impact using narrative techniques. For DMOs, he equips professionals with writing and knowledge management methods to create place value in city branding. He has previously completed a CNRS-funded project on heritage management and big data for the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. His current research, using literary travel narratives, is in experience co-creation for the blue economy with a focus on the Channel ports of Normandy. He presented this research in May in the ESO Lab for the University of Caen. Dr Charlie Mansfield is a member of the Scientific Council of Research for Literature & Tourism at Lisbon University School of Management and the University of the Algarve.

Education

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Literary Tourism, Travel Writing for Tourism Development,

Personal Interests

French literature, film and food.

Websites

Books

Featured Title

Articles

Building the Ethnopôle: Eliciting and Sharing Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Tourism Development

Published: Oct 01, 2021 by Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies - History & Sociology
Authors: Mansfield, C. & Potočnik Topler, J.
Subjects: Tourism, Hospitality and Events

With rising tourism interest in cultural heritage, destination management organisations, museums and other cultural institutions are seeking methods of unlocking the intangible cultural heritage of local residents and sharing that before it is lost. This is specific knowledge of the uses and practices of disappearing urban space, of plants and foodstuffs, of clothing and of work practices that were more in-tune with local, sustainable production.

News

Teaching Pack - Social Media Storytelling for Sustainable Destination Campaigns

By: Charlie Mansfield
Subjects: Other, Tourism, Hospitality and Events

On 8th January 2024 we launched our Teaching Pack called: Social Media Storytelling for Sustainable Destination Campaigns. It is a teaching companion with instructor resources for our textbook from Routledge (Taylor & Francis) called: Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place-Writing Methodologies.

Please follow the instructions for using Microsoft OneNote to teach and deliver this from the following blog posts or download the complete eBook in instalment 5. The first post in in the link below

European book launch by Zoom - Recording available

By: Charlie Mansfield
Subjects: Critical & Creative Life Writing, Other, Tourism, Hospitality and Events

This talk on 10th January 2023, introduced the 3-step process for travel writers and researchers to engage with DMOs, city councils and tourism stakeholders. It gave an overview of dialogue journaling from Chapter 5 of our 2023 book, Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding, Abingdon: Routledge. The slides form the presentation are available on the web-page below for download or viewing in Google Slides. The recording of the Zoom is also uploaded onto my YouTube channel, fast forward 4 minutes to go direct to the presentation.

Videos

Travel writers in destination experience design

Published: Nov 01, 2022

Journaling for Travel Writers