Hi and welcome back to the first episode of season 3 of the Cities Reimagined Podcast.

To kick things off, I’m joined by Donagh Horgan — a social designer, researcher, and all-round urban thinker who’s doing some pretty exciting work at the intersection of placemaking and tourism. Donagh is based between Ireland and the Netherlands, where he leads the Urban Leisure & Tourism Lab at Inholland University. He’s also a lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam and works with cities around the world to make them more inclusive, creative, and resilient.

In this episode, we dive into the changing role of tourism in our cities. Urban tourism exploded after the  ...