Affective Tourism© is a concept I proposed in my book of the same title — referring to the feelings, emotions and affects transacted in tourist places.
The concept has since been expanded in a Special Issue with Professor Jennie Germann Molz, Attuning to Affect and Emotion in Tourism Studies, and carried into hospitality studies with Dr Guy Lincoln in the forthcoming monograph Affective Hospitality. I currently serve as Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Tourism and Hospitality at Edge Hotel School, University of Essex, England.
I am passionate about understanding, in depth, how emotions are felt when travelling to areas of on-going socio-political turmoil and conflict — a commitment that runs through my research, my teaching, and my TEDx talk.
