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

About Charlie MansfieldJasna Potonik Topler

Charlie Mansfield has been a university lecturer since 1995 and taught until January 2022 at the University of Plymouth in tourism management and French 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 from January 2005 until July 2009 where he successfully completed an AHRC-funded research project to digitise medieval literature. He is an independent researcher and travel writer regularly running summer schools for literary travel writers.Jasna Potonik Topler has been teaching at the University of Maribor Slovenia since 2014. She completed her studies in English language and literature and in journalism and was awarded her PhD at the University of Ljubljana. Currently she holds the position of associate professor. Her field of research includes cultural tourism with its subtypes languages tourism and media discourse and communication. She is the author of monographs scientific articles and conference lectures and an editorial board member of many journals. She has been engaged in several international projects and in projects with students the most recent under the EU Erasmus+ Programme KA220-HED is IN-COMM GUIDE that enhances active and inclusive teaching of literacy and communication skills for better employment and sustainable economic growth. As a guest lecturer she has had cooperation with many European universities.