6. Gay Marketing and Tourism AND a Brief History of Department Store Harrods

SHOPOLOGY Episode #6 Gay Marketing and the Pink Dollar AND A Brief History of Department Store Harrods

On this week's show Louise is joined by tourism expert Dr Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta from Edith Cowan University.

Gay Marketing and Gay Tourism

On this week's show Louise chats with gay tourism and marketing expert Dr Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta from Edith Cowan University about marketing to LGBTQI+ consumers and the gay travel market.

Further reading with some of Oscar's published scholarly work: Gay neo-tribes: Exploration of travel behaviour and space and The Evolution of Gay Travel Research

A Brief History of Department Stores: Part One Harrods

Over the next few weeks, Louise presents a brief history of department stores and profiles some of her favourites. This week's store is Harrods in London.

Find out how Harrod's started and the amazing range of products and services on offer.

To find out more, you can watch Louise's recent University of Tasmania public lecture Rise and Fall: A Brief History of the Department Store on You Tube.

All this, plus this week's retail news headlines.

*SHOPOLOGY originally airs as a radio show on Edge Radio www.edgeradio.org.au