Dr Craig Wight's Recognition (51)

Invited Speaker at Dundee Centre for Contemporary Arts
2011

Description	Invited public speaker on dark tourism at Dundee CCA
Research Areas	Employability Festivals and Events Geopolitics Governance Hospitality Information society Management Pedagogy Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Org Units	Business School

Commercial funding: West Dunbartonshire Council, £6,822. Visitor Loyalty Options Appraisal
2011 - 2011

Description	Consultation with local businesses to explore options for a loyalty product to tackle seasonality
Research Areas	Tourism

Journal Reviewer: Tourism Management
2010

Description	Regular reviewer for one of the three top rated journals in the discipline
Research Areas	Employability Festivals and Events Geopolitics Governance Hospitality Information society Management Pedagogy Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Org Units	Business School

Conference presentation at Tourist Experiences: Meanings, Motivations, Behaviours, University of Central Lancashire, UK, April 2009
2009

Description	Paper titled Exploring Tourism Narratives of the UK Food Experience
Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Advisor to Visit Britain
2009

Description	Advisor to Visit Britain on the structures and budgets of comparable National Tourism Organisations. Report commissioned 2009, and academic output produced 2012
Research Areas	Tourism

Commercial Funding (contributor): St Lucia Hotels and Tourism Association (value £25,000). Tourism Product Audit, Service Review and Training Package (Glasgow Caledonian University)
2009 - 2010

Description	St Lucia First: Training Package.
Research Areas	Tourism

Commercial Funding: West Dunbartonshire Council. £5,000, Stakeholder Consultation and Tourism Strategy (Glasgow Caledonian University) 2009
2009 - 2009

Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Commercial funding (contributor). Visit Hull and East Yorkshire. Glasgow Caledonian University. (value £10,000). A review of the impact of modernisation on the tourist information service infrastructure in Hull and East Yorkshire
2008 - 2009

Description	Review of Tourist Information Provision for Hull and East Yorkshire
Research Areas	Tourism

Commercial Funding (Project Consultant), Visit Hull and East Yorkshire, £15,000, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2008/09
2008 - 2009

Description	Project consultant for two consecutive years of impact analyses of the Freedom Music Festival in Hull
Research Areas	Tourism

Commercial Funding, Visit Scotland, £3000, New Futures: Scottish Tourism in 2030. Glasgow Caledonian University 2008
2008 - 2008

Description	VisitScotland has been engaged in scenario planning with the Moffat Centre since 2001 constructing scenarios, undertaking environmental scanning and producing economic models. Between 2005/07, Visit Scotland formed a scenario planning group in order to hypothesise what tourism might look like between 2015 and 2030. The success in that process helped construct the Tourism Framework for Change document, an ambitious growth strategy. The purpose of this latest research exercise is to develop upon the existing ‘futures’ work of VisitScotland. The objectives of the research were as follows: • To construct three scenarios about Scottish tourism in 2030 to be used by the scenario planning consortium and VisitScotland. The scenarios need to be interpreted in such a way as to suggest actionable responses in a sustainable manner from VisitScotland, Scottish Tourism and consortium members. • To use a back casting process in order to analyse the 2030 New Futures scenarios against the 2015 ambitions target This report incorporated findings from four tourism stakeholder workshops lead by VisitScotland and the Moffat Centre that took place over 2 days. The report suggests scenarios that are commercially viable, feasible and sustainable. It presents a clear set of actionable responses that relate to the structure of Scottish tourism and its markets, products and consumers. These are directly informed by the scenarios and workshops.
Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Commercial Funding. North Wales Tourism Partnership. (£5,000). strategic review of attractions consortia in North Wales, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2008
2008 - 2008

Description	Consultation and report on strategies for tourism consortia
Research Areas	Tourism Employment
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Commercial Funding, Visit Britain, £3,000, A case study analysis of the structures and budgets of National Tourism Organisations. Glasgow Caledonian University,
2008 - 2008

Description	The UK Leisure and Tourism sector is very fragmented at government and industry level covering a wide and diverse range of products. Tourist boards and strategic authorities are important for the thousands of small enterprises that provide accommodation, food, attractions and travel services to tourists in Britain. These organisations provide a focal point for marketing to incoming visitors and a voice on industry issues. This research presented findings from a 6 week period of desk research and semi structured interviews with key tourism stakeholders (including senior staff from within NTOs) from • Canada • Germany • Australia • New Zealand • South Africa • France The report analysed the remit, positioning and funding of each country’s NTO and other relevant tourism organisations. It provided an understanding of each NTO’s role in advising government on tourism policy issues. The report explores how the tourism industry organises itself in order to lobby government for improvements to infrastructure that supports tourism to the benefit of the industry.
Research Areas	Tourism Governance
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Conference presentation at the Second International Interpreting World Heritage Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 2007
2007

Description	Paper titled Icons Branding and Scottish Regional Identity
Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Conference Presentation at The First Annual Interpreting World Heritage Conference, "Connecting People to Places through Sustainable Heritage Tourism", San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 1-5 2006
2006

Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities

Journal reviewer: Asia Pacific, 2005-present
2005

Research Areas	Employability Festivals and Events Geopolitics Governance Hospitality Information society Management Pedagogy Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Org Units	Business School

Project Manager for the economic impact analyses of the Burns 2007/2006 celebrations and project support for economic analyses of the /2005/2004 Festivals in Ayrshire for the Burns Festival company
2004 - 2005

Description	Economic impact analyses
Research Areas	Employability Festivals and Events Geopolitics Governance Hospitality Information society Management Pedagogy Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Org Units	Business School

Written submission on the development of tourism in Haddington, East Lothian
2021

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Description	Report commissioned by Haddington Community Council (Wight as sole author) scoping out and shortlisting viable options for tourism development in Haddington. Specifically, through a combination of secondary, desk based research, and primary, qualitative data collected via a stakeholder focus group and interviews, the report examines potential tourism development opportunities for Haddington that are framed within the context of various strategic and policy documentation covering the wider East Lothian region. These were consulted to form an interpretation of the wider context for tourism.
Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Org Units	Business School
URL	https://haddingtoncc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-CC-mins-Sept-2021-v1.pdf

Written Interface output on using social media to market museums: produced for the Scottish Maritime Museum
2020

Recognition Type	Advisory panels and expert committees or witness
Description	Written as part of the Adopt a Business Initiative (Interface) during the pandemic . The ethos here was to support Scotland's tourism businesses in their reaction to, and recovery from the Covid 19 pandemic. Focuses on harnessing social media to engage with user groups to drive footfall and thus economic impact.
Research Areas	Tourism Cultural heritage
Research Themes	AI and Technologies Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Org Units	Business School

Co-Invesigator for a Knowledge Exchange Grant (£12,000) from Oxford Brookes University to plan and deliver a two day collaborative research workshop at Shrewsbury Prison Visitor Attraction
2025

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	The purpose of this interdisciplinary knowledge exchange project is to host a symposium that will bring together scholars and practitioners involved in penal heritage. The Penal Heritage Symposium, to occur at Shrewsbury Prison (UK), intends to be the first iteration of a future larger biennial conference – co-hosted by Oxford Brookes University, Robert Gordon University and Edinburgh Napier University, with support of Cove Group Ltd. The aim of the Symposium is to promote interdisciplinary work between scholars and industry practitioners to produce future impact studies and efforts pertaining to the way in which penal heritage is used (and abused) for the experience economy. This aim will be possible through several key objectives. •To will explore and understand society’s use of and responses to penal heritage. •To promote the development of knowledge exchange activities between scholars and practitioners. •To advance dialogue around creative approaches to future uses of penal heritage. These objectives will be possible through the Symposium’s focus on the impact of penal heritage on society, culture and the experience economy, with particular attention given to how penal heritage shapes our understandings of the penal system, reform, and human rights. In achieving the aim and objectives listed, the Symposium will serve as a foundation for the promotion and production of a global network to support the sharing of knowledge relating to penal heritage research and practice. This symposium will bring together penal heritage scholars and practitioners from around the globe, including research active and teaching academics, postgraduate students, industry professionals, and other professionals interested in or who work with penal heritage. In particular, the Symposium will seek to involve the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience - the only global network of historic sites, museums, and memory initiatives that connects past struggles to today's movements for human rights.
Affiliated Organisations	Robert Gordon University Oxford Brookes University
Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
Projects	ARCS proposal: Peterhead Prison Museum
Org Units	Business School

Conference Chair ICCHT International Conference on Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Paris, France 23-24 June 2017
2017

Recognition Type	Conference Organising Activity
Description	Concurrent session Panel Chair at the ICCHT International Conference on Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Paris, France 23-24 June 2017
Research Areas	Tourism
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Tourism Research Centre
URL	https://waset.org/cultural-heritage-and-tourism-conference-in-january-2023-in-paris