School of Sport and Service Management

Dr Alberto Forte

Lecturer

contact:
Sport and Service Management
Darley Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7UR

Email: af48@brighton.ac.uk

Research Interests

Tourism management and urban change in peripheral cities
Local and regional level tourism policy analysis
Urban social networks, business clusters and the policy network
Tourism, power distribution and governance
Urban regeneration, tourism and urban change
Foucauldian discourse theory and policy analysis

Teaching Areas

governance (public policy and informal policy analysis)
tourism and politics
management and strategic planning in tourism
development theory
social-anthropology of tourism
critical geography of tourism
space-place-destination paradigm

Biography

Alberto is a human geographer with a background in cultural studies. He completed his PhD in 2009 at the University of Brighton and was appointed Lecturer in Tourism Management on the same year.

His teaching, research and consultancy activities span social, cultural, and political aspects of tourism management including planning and development in both developed and developing countries although he is increasingly focused on the European context and peripheral cities within it.

Across his teaching, research and consultancy activities, Alberto uses tourism as an academic “instrument”, rather than simply a sector or an activity based industry. He believes that tourism is a pedagogical instrument to educate students on the relationship between economy, politics and development; culture, society and psychology; ecology, management and strategic planning. He uses tourism (strategic tourism planning) as a consultancy instrument potentially in the position to foster social cohesion whilst evolving backward business and policy cultures, and as a research instrument to explore underlying dynamics of socio-cultural change in a range of contexts (e.g. natural and built environments)

Invited talks and Keynote / Guest Speaker Addresses

2014 Guest speaker and coordinator for the stream ‘Tourism Networks in Peripheral Cities’ at the forthcoming international conference on the sociology and geography of tourism (Rome; Universita’ Statale Roma Tor Vergata).

2009 Invited keynote speaker for ‘Cervia Vision 2028’. Seaside towns and urban renewal at the conference: Cervia Vision 2028. Cervia, Italy.

Conference and seminar papers

Forte, A. (2012). ‘Principal seaside towns in transition: planning for change along the English coast’. Paper presented at the: Enlightening Tourism: first international conference on Competition and Innovation in Tourism – New Challenges in an Uncertain Environment. Naples, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, 13-14, 2012. Organized by IRAT - National Research Council and GEIDETUR - Universidad de Huelva, in collaboration with University of Naples Parthenope and Centops – University of Brighton.

Forte, A. (2012). ‘Between urban regeneration and tourism rejuvenation: the changing culture of the English seaside town. Paper presented at the Coastal Cultures conference. Chelsea School of Sport, University of Brighton, Eastbourne in partnership with Leisure Studies Association, 1 June 2012.

Forte, A. (2011). ‘Silent, seemingly uninterested and allegedly uncommitted: A study of participation, interaction, and deep learning in small group learning and teaching context’. Paper presented at the: PCLT in HE course conference, 8 June 2011. Centre for Learning and Teaching (University of Brighton).

Forte, A. (2011). ‘Seaside town’s regeneration: Tourism and transition’. Research Seminar series, University of Brighton.

Forte, A. (2010). ‘Club di prodotti internazionali: Best practices’. Sustainable Development Planning, EU Cooperation, processes of regionalization and governance of Globalization; International Seminar, the Mediterranean Basin, 7 December 2010 – Naples.

Forte, A. (2008). ‘Formal versus Informal Cultural Programming: Showcasing Change, Diversifying Tourism, Regenerating the City’. ATLAS Annual Conference: Selling or Telling? Paradoxes in Tourism, Culture, and Heritage. July 2-4, 2008, University of Brighton, UK.

Forte, A. (2007). ‘Regenerating the English Coastal Town: the Discourse of Urban Regeneration, Culture and Tourism’. Researching Destination Management, Policy and Planning: linking heritage, culture and tourism. September 24-25, 2007, University of Latvia, Riga.