Best Paper Awards for IPM Fellows at Academy of Marketing Conference 2016

Institute of Place Management Fellow, and Chair of the IPM Special Interest Group on Responsible Tourism, Dr Heather Skinner was presented with the award for Best Paper in the Place Marketing and Branding Track at the Academy of Marketing Annual Conference that took place at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University 4th-7th July 2016 for the paper: Business Tourists' Perceptions of National and Capital City Brands - A comparison between Dublin / Ireland and Cardiff / Wales.

The prize for the Best Paper in the Retail Marketing Track was awarded to Professor Cathy Parker, Ed Dargan, Nikos Ntounis and Simon Quin for their paper: Radical marketing and the UK High Street - A new typology of towns Many thanks go to the conference chairs: Professor Fraser McLeay, Professor Helen Woodruffe-Burton, Dr David Hart, and Nigel Coates, to all of the track chairs, and also to the Academy of Marketing Executive for their organisation of what continues to be such an excellent conference.