Craig Wight

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Dr Craig Wight

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TNE and International Partnerships (Plymouth Global)

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The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Craig's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 08: SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic GrowthGoal 09: SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and InfrastructureGoal 11: SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesGoal 12: SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

About Craig

Craig Wight is a Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism and is Programme Lead for the undergraduate Hospitality Management programmes in the Department. He is interested in destination development and narratives of cultural heritage, including 'genocide heritage' as these relate to the construction of destination discourses. He has a background in commercial consultancy for tourism organisations, having worked at the Moffat Centre in Glasgow during most of the 2000s. He led a range of consultancy and research projects including an annual socio-economic impact study for the 'Freedom' music festival in Hull. He also contributed to a review of tourist information services for Visit Hull and East Yorkshire and wrote strategies for the Scottish Borders and West Dunbartonshire tourism partnerships. Craig has advised both the Scottish and UK National Tourism Organisations having undertaken an analysis of the structures and budgets of International NTOs for VisitBritain and having co-authored a scenario planning report with VisitScotland. He led on a number of socio-economic impact analyses and consultation exercises in Scotland and the UK. He has presented at several tourism conferences including the WASET Cultural Heritage Conference in Paris France (2017), the 'Myths of Tourism' conference in Zadar, Croatia (2012) and the 2nd Advances in Hospitality and Tourism conference in Corfu, Greece (2011). He also presented research at the first National Association of Interpretation conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006 (on Lithuanian heritage) and the second in this series in Vancouver, Canada in 2007 (on network marketing in rural tourism). He has a PhD from Plymouth University and his work is published in a number of tourism subject journals including in the 4 star Annals of Tourism and Tourism Management journals. 

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Consumption of tourism and hospitality services; Dark tourism; Research methods; Destination development; Business development and strategy

Contact Craig

CKY333, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA