FYI, Jarkko

Could you please forward this second call for submissions to Spatial
Data Handling to the other commissions?

Thanks,

Brian

Brian G Lees

Professor of Geography
Head, School of Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Sciences, The
University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy,
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geographical Information
Science Canberra ACT 2600 Australia
b.lees@...
phone: +61 2 626 88061
fax: +61 2 626 88786
mobile: +61 0438624444

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TTRI Research Seminar

Thursday 15th October 2009

3pm-5pm

Room A02 Amenities Building

Jubilee Campus

 




Professor Edward Chaney

'Pilgrims to Pictures: The Italian Renaissance and the Evolution of the Grand Tour'.

Edward Chaney is Professor of Fine Art at Southampton Solent University. He gained his PhD at the Warburg Institute in London before teaching in Italy at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University of Pisa. From 1985 to 1990 he was Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural History at Lincoln College Oxford. He has since worked for English Heritage and is the author of many well-received publications including the highly-praised book “The Evolution of the Grand Tour”.




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Deborah Timmermans
Centre Administrator (Thurs, Fri)
Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute
University of Nottingham Business School
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
United Kingdom

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appoligies for cross-posting

ATLAS SIG meetings

The general aims of the conference are:

• Discuss the nature and roles of tourism development in a specific developed or developing world context.
• Examine the role of tourism in sustainable development and the impacts of tourism in natural, cultural and heritage landscapes.
• Explore various ways of utilising tourism for the achievement of pro-poor development at different scales in the context of different types of crises.
• Develop new approaches to utilise tourism for development especially for sustainable development in crisis type environments.
• Analyse contemporary issues, practices and future changes and challenges (such as global climate change, economic decline or policy shortcomings) in tourism development.
• The role of tourism and sustainable development in the context of many different types of crises .
• Politics of sustainable tourism in crisis environments .
• Tourism and gender relations
• Tourism and unstable political environments
• Tourism and regional warfare
• Tourism and global terrorism

call for papers

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TTRI Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 November 2009

3pm-5pm

Room A02 Amenities Building

Jubilee Campus

Professor Stephen Wanhill

"Last Night at the Opera"

The Business of Sustaining this Art Form


Performing arts organisations, such as opera companies do not exist solely for the purpose of satisfying consumer demand, but to also further their cultural medium.   As museums may be regarded as the guardians of heritage,so opera companies take their share of guarding the cultural resources of society.   The broad goals of the professional opera companies are to maximise attendance, while presenting a repertoire that meets their quality standards, subject to the constraint that revenues must be sufficient to cover costs.   From this it may thus be appreciated that the art of opera management is about maintaining a balance between filling seats, controlling costs and artistic integrity.   The traditions and conventions in the repertoire lead to high costs and prices in today's market, making it virtually impossible to cover expenses purely with box office receipts and so companies must resort to diverse streams of income raised fromfriends/patrons associations, sponsorship and varying amounts of government funding to enable the art form to survive.   Given that the latter is 'at arm's length' and subject public sector budgetary conditions, where the underlying trend in Europe has been a tightening of government funding, the essence of the discussion here is one of self-help, of which opera companies in the USA are prime examples.   The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some of the actions that may be taken towards self-help, including revenue management.

 Dr. Stephen Robert Charles Wanhill

       
Stephen Wanhill is a Special Professor, Nottingham University Business School, Professor of Tourism Economics, University of Limerick and Emeritus Professor of Tourism Research, Bournemouth University, Dean of the Graduate School at Neapolis University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Swansea.   He is a Director of Global Tourism Solutions (UK) and his principal research interests are in the field of tourism destination development.   To this extent he has acted as a tourism consultant to a number of UK planning and management consulting firms, and has undertaken a wide range of tourism development strategies, tourism impact assessments, lecture programmes and project studies from airports to attractions, both in the UK and worldwide, covering some 50 countries.

He has written extensively on public sector intervention in tourism, tourism impact methodology, and project appraisal and development in academic journals and edited books, which has brought him recognition in terms of acting as tourism policy advisor to the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs for a period of five years in House of Commons.   He is one of the authors for the best selling book Tourism Principles and Practice (Pearson Education), now in its 4th Edition, and the new addition of Managing Visitor Attractions:  New Directions (Butterworth-Heinemann).

He has been a Board Member of the Wales Tourist Board with responsibilities for the development and research divisions. · In this capacity, he spent much time reviewing and recommending grant applications for projects that encompass accommodation, restaurants and pubs, attractions and public facilities, such as country parks, visitors centres and infrastructure improvements.

He is the Editor of Tourism Economics and an Editorial Board Member of Acta Touristica, European Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, the International Journal of Tourism Research, and the Journal of Travel Research.

There will be an opportunity to network with refreshments after the Seminar in the Aspire Cafe 

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Deborah Timmermans
Centre Administrator (Thurs, Fri)
Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute
University of Nottingham Business School
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
United Kingdom

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ttri

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Fax:+44 (0)115 84 66612

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The Department of Geography at the University of Oregon is collaborating with
the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou,
China, on a major international conference on "China and the Future of Human
Geography." The conference, which will take place on August 26-28, 2010, in
Guangzhou, will focus on the impacts of an emergent China on human geographic
conceptions and understandings in the twenty-first century. The conference is
targeted not just at China specialists, but at a range of human geographers
interested in the changing global scene. Plenary speakers will include John
Agnew (UCLA), Lily Kong (National University of Singapore), Michael
Webber (University of Melbourne), and Joshua Muldavin (Sarah Lawrence
College).

Please consider participating in this conference. Information and registration
materials can be found on the Oregon Geography web page (
geography.uoregon.edu). Please also help us spread the word about the conference
by forwarding this message and attachment to interested
colleagues and students.

Thanks a lot,
Xiaobo Su
Department of Geography,
University of Oregon

FYI, WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING,
Yours, Jarkko Saarinen

>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism of the
> University of Innsbruck is organising together with the EURAC in Bolzano
> and the University of Applied Sciences in Chur an international
> conference on “Facing Climate Change and the Global Economic Crisis:
> Challenges for the Future of Tourism�. This conference will take place
> at the EURAC in Bolzano from 20^th to 21^st of November 2009. Attached
> you will find the conference program.
>
> We would ask you to pass this information on to other colleagues in your
> and/or related organisations who might be interested in attending this
> conference.
>
> Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need any further information.
>
> Best regards
>
> Klaus Weiermair
> Andreas Strobl
> Innsbruck University School of Management
>
> --
> MMag. Andreas Strobl
> Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism
> Innsbruck University School of Management
> Universitätsstrasse 15
> 6020 Innsbruck,  Austria
> phone +43 512 507 7083
> fax +43 512 507 2845
>

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Subject: Last Night at the Opera - TTRI Research Seminar - Wednesday 11 November

TTRI Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 November 2009

3pm-5pm

Room A02 Amenities Building

Jubilee Campus

Professor Stephen Wanhill

"Last Night at the Opera"

The Business of Sustaining this Art Form


Performing arts organisations, such as opera companies do not exist solely for the purpose of satisfying consumer demand, but to also further their cultural medium.   As museums may be regarded as the guardians of heritage,so opera companies take their share of guarding the cultural resources of society.   The broad goals of the professional opera companies are to maximise attendance, while presenting a repertoire that meets their quality standards, subject to the constraint that revenues must be sufficient to cover costs.   From this it may thus be appreciated that the art of opera management is about maintaining a balance between filling seats, controlling costs and artistic integrity.   The traditions and conventions in the repertoire lead to high costs and prices in today's market, making it virtually impossible to cover expenses purely with box office receipts and so companies must resort to diverse streams of income raised fromfriends/patrons associations, sponsorship and varying amounts of government funding to enable the art form to survive.   Given that the latter is 'at arm's length' and subject public sector budgetary conditions, where the underlying trend in Europe has been a tightening of government funding, the essence of the discussion here is one of self-help, of which opera companies in the USA are prime examples.   The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some of the actions that may be taken towards self-help, including revenue management.

 Dr. Stephen Robert Charles Wanhill

       
Stephen Wanhill is a Special Professor, Nottingham University Business School, Professor of Tourism Economics, University of Limerick and Emeritus Professor of Tourism Research, Bournemouth University, Dean of the Graduate School at Neapolis University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Swansea.   He is a Director of Global Tourism Solutions (UK) and his principal research interests are in the field of tourism destination development.   To this extent he has acted as a tourism consultant to a number of UK planning and management consulting firms, and has undertaken a wide range of tourism development strategies, tourism impact assessments, lecture programmes and project studies from airports to attractions, both in the UK and worldwide, covering some 50 countries.

He has written extensively on public sector intervention in tourism, tourism impact methodology, and project appraisal and development in academic journals and edited books, which has brought him recognition in terms of acting as tourism policy advisor to the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs for a period of five years in House of Commons.   He is one of the authors for the best selling book Tourism Principles and Practice (Pearson Education), now in its 4th Edition, and the new addition of Managing Visitor Attractions:  New Directions (Butterworth-Heinemann).

He has been a Board Member of the Wales Tourist Board with responsibilities for the development and research divisions. · In this capacity, he spent much time reviewing and recommending grant applications for projects that encompass accommodation, restaurants and pubs, attractions and public facilities, such as country parks, visitors centres and infrastructure improvements.

He is the Editor of Tourism Economics and an Editorial Board Member of Acta Touristica, European Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, the International Journal of Tourism Research, and the Journal of Travel Research.

There will be an opportunity to network with refreshments after the Seminar in the Aspire Cafe 

Please email your response to deborah.timmermans@...

 

Deborah Timmermans
Centre Administrator (Thurs, Fri)
Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute
University of Nottingham Business School
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
United Kingdom

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ttri

Tel: +44 (0)115 82 32378
Fax:+44 (0)115 84 66612

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Call for papers

2nd International Polar Tourism Research Network Conference
Tourism, People and Protected Areas in Polar Wilderness

Date: 13-16 June 2010,
Venue: Abisko, Kiruna municipality, Sweden

Polar areas have recently raised enormous interest from various directions.
Geopolitical struggle over resources and growing concern regarding the impacts
of climate change on polar environments are only two reasons for the increasing
awareness directed towards polar areas often focusing the regions’ ecological
vulnerability.

These changes are intertwined with issues related to human mobility and here
particularly the role of tourism can be highlighted. The remoteness of the polar
areas promises tourists extreme climatic conditions, undisturbed wilderness,
authentic heritage and exotism. These factors have been successfully used to
lure an increasing number of tourists into the polar regions. Hence meanwhile
desired by national and regional governments and also some communities as a way
of achieving regional development and sustaining livelihoods for polar peoples,
the growing numbers of tourists have created concern among environmentalists,
academics and locals. Obviously, the needs and desires of tourists collide with
local subsistence, global conservation interest and other resource exploitation.
Hence in some cases mining, tourism, nature protection and indigenous traditions
compete for the same spaces. The idea of ‘peripheral’ polar areas is thus
increasingly contested and in the light of global change polar areas have been
moved into the center of interest as never before.

This forms the background for the 2nd conference of the International Polar
Tourism Research Network in Abisko, Sweden. This conference puts focus on the
interrelationship of tourism development and polar communities and environments.
Papers should address issues related to the following topics:


·         Tourism and regional development in polar areas

·         Tourism and indigenous peoples in polar areas

·         Tourism and cultural change in polar areas

·         Tourism and nature protection in polar areas

·         Polar ecotourism and nature-based tourism

·         Polar cruise tourism

·         Polar mass tourism

·         Science tourism

·         Tourism and resource conflicts in polar areas

·         Polar tourism experiences and their interpretation

·         Management and planning for polar tourism

·         Geopolitics of polar tourism

·         Polar tourism history

·         Constructions of polar tourism spaces

… or any other topic relevant for the topic of the conference
Abstract submissions addressing both theoretical and empirical issues are
welcomed. A review process will be applied to ensure high-quality contributions
to the conference. Moreover, the location of the conference in the sub-polar
region of Sweden and the subsequent logistical limitations imply that only a
limited number of delegates can be accepted for the conference.

The conference is organized by the Department of Social and Economic Geography,
Umeå University, Sweden, on behalf of the INPTRN
(http://www.polartourismnetwork.uqam.ca/ ). The venue for the conference is the
Abisko Scientific Research Station (http://www.linnea.com/~ans/). Accommodation
is thus in shared rooms. The expected cost for the conference including
accommodation and all meals is 3500 SEK (ca. 320 € - to be confirmed)

The local organizing committee contains

Professor Dieter K. Müller, Umeå University, Sweden
Assistand Professor Linda Lundmark, Umeå University, Sweden
Assistant Professor Hans Gelter, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

The scientific advisory committee contains

Professor Dieter K. Müller, Umeå University, Sweden (local organizer)
Professor Alain Grenier, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
Associate Professor Raymond Lemelin, Lakehead University, Canada
Associate Professor Pat Maher, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Suzanne de la Barre, Whitehorse, Canada
Machiel Lamers, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Abstracts of 200-300 words also containing title, authors’ names and
affiliations should be sent electronically not later than 15 February 2010 to
dieter.muller@...<mailto:dieter.muller@...>.
Details on venue, transportation and confirmed prices will be published on the
conference web page to be launched in November 2009
(www.umu.se/soc_econ_geography/IPTRN/<http://www.umu.se/soc_econ_geography/IPTRN\
/> ).

Please note that the conference is scheduled allowing for a combination with the
IPY-meeting in Oslo 8-12 June 2010 (http://www.ipy-osc.no/)