NET-STaR ESRC Seminar Series
Objectives
NET-STaR is a seminar series supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). NET-STaR will create a network to explore the potential of social tourism as a regeneration strategy in the UK, drawing on scholarship from tourism, family and social policy, regeneration and spatial planning. Social tourism involves encouraging visitors to destinations in need of regeneration, often during the shoulder season, and / or offering holidays to the disadvantaged. Though well-established as part of public policy in much of mainland Europe, in the UK it is largely dependent on the charitable sector. To date, research in the field has been partial and fragmented, originating from different disciplines, and interaction between academics and practitioners has been limited. The network breaks new ground by bringing together academics, policy makers and industry figures to examine existing academic work and debate policy experiences in a series of six seminars.
Project Website: www.westminster.ac.uk/net-star
Funding
ESRC
Collaborations
Professor Robert Maitland, University of Westminster