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David Jarratt

Senior Lecturer

School of Management

Tourism Studies, Tourism & Event Management, the visitor experience, visitor motivation, sense of place, tourism and wellness, nostalgia, heritage tourism

Dr David Jarratt is based in The Lancashire School of Business and Enterprise at the University of Central Lancashire, where he lectures in Tourism and Event Management. He teaches at all levels, undergraduate and postgraduate, and is a course leader. He has published on the visitor experience and sense of place as they relate to tourism and leisure. He also has an interest in heritage tourism; before entering academia David worked in this sector and in particular heritage tourist attraction management and event management. He has also been involved in delivering training for the travel and tourism industry.

PhD, PGCE (Further Education & Higher Education), MA, BA(Hons).

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  1. Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2015) Seasideness: Sense of Place at a Seaside Resort. In: Landscapes of Leisure: Space, Place and Identities,. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 147-163. ISBN 978–1–137–42852–3
  2. Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2015) Sense of place at a British coastal resort: Exploring ‘seasideness’ in Morecambe. Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, 63 (3). pp. 351-363. ISSN 1332-7461
  3. Jarratt, David C. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X and Gammon, Sean James orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-5053-8763 (2016) ‘We had the most wonderful times’: seaside nostalgia at a British resort. Tourism Recreation Research, 41 (2). pp. 123-133. ISSN 0250-8281
  4. Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X and Sharpley, Richard Anthony john orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-2135-3206 (2017) Tourists at the seaside: Exploring the spiritual dimension. Tourist Studies, 17 (4). pp. 349-368. ISSN 1468-7976
  5. Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X, Phelan, Christopher James, Wain, Jenny and Dale, Sarah (2019) Developing a sense of place toolkit: Identifying destination uniqueness. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 19 (4). pp. 408-421. ISSN 1467-3584
  6. Gammon, Sean James orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-5053-8763 and Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2019) Keeping Leisure in mind: the intervening role of leisure in the blue space - health nexus. In: Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded. Geographies of Health Series, 1st Ed . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 38-51. ISBN 9780815359142
  7. Steele, Jenny and Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2019) The Seaside Resort, Nostalgia and Restoration. In: Practising Place: Creative and Critical Reflections on Place. Art Editions North, pp. 132-149. ISBN 9781906832353
  8. Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2019) The development and decline of Morecambe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a resort caught in the tide. Journal of Tourism History, 11 (3). pp. 263-283. ISSN 1755-182X
  9. Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2020) Planning for climate change impacts: coastal tourism destination resilience policies. Tourism Planning & Development, 17 (4). pp. 423-440. ISSN 2156-8316
  10. Weston, Richard orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2411-6019, Lawler, Mary orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0106-5418 and Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2019) European tourism:recent developments and future challenges. Discussion Paper. European Union.
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