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Dear List members

We wish to remind you of the approaching deadline for abstract submission (15 December 2009) for the following conference:

world heritage and tourism:

Managing for the global and the local

3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada

As of 2009, approximately 900 sites are registered on the UNESCO World Heritage list. For many sites inscription on the World Heritage List acts as a promotional device and the management challenge is one of protection, conservation and dealing with increased numbers of tourists. For other sites, designation has not brought anticipated expansion in tourist numbers and associated investments. What is clear is that tourism is now a central concern to the wide array of stakeholders involved with World Heritage Sites. We increasingly need to understand the multi-layered relationships between the diverse range of Sites and tourism and tourists and, to focus on how tourism is effectively managed for the benefit of all.

This conference seeks to explore a series of critical and fundamental questions being raised by the various ‘owners’, managers and local communities involved with World Heritage Sites in relation to tourism: Why do tourists visit some World Heritage Sites and not others? What is the tourist experience of such Sites? How successful are Sites in the management of tourists? What roles do local communities play in Site management? How can the ‘spirit of place’ be protected in the face of the sheer volume of tourists? How can some Sites maximize the potential of a sustainable tourism for the purposes of poverty alleviation and community cohesion? How effective are communication strategies in bringing stakeholders together? What management skills are needed to address the needs of different stakeholders, different sites and different cultures?

We encourage papers from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and welcome submissions which address theoretical, empirical, methodological, comparative and practical perspectives on the fullest array of themes associated with the management of UNESCO World Heritage.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Original papers are invited to consider subject areas including, but not limited to, the following themes:

·         Marketing in the management of World Heritage Sites;

·         The pragmatics of managing tourists;

·         Financing World Heritage;

·         Community involvement in Site management;

·         Relations between intangible cultural heritage and Site management;

·         The role of the private tourism sector;

·         The nature of tourist experience and behaviour at World Heritage Sites;

·         Shaping local, regional and national identities through Site inscription;

·         Issues of governance and transnational regulation;

·         Legal rights and notions of ‘ownership’;

·         The management of World Heritage ‘values’;

·         The geo-politics of inclusion and exclusion;

·         Methods of Site evaluation;

·         Managing spiritual values and biodiversity;

·         The role of UNESCO and the political economies of designation.

Please submit your 500 words abstract (in French or English) including a title and full contact details as an electronic file to Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas (Maria.Gravari-Barbas@...) or Laurent Bourdeau (laurent.bourdeau@...) as soon as possible but no later than 15 December 2009.

Publication opportunity: Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. Best papers from the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.

Conference Organisers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development, the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University.

For further details on the conference at a later stage please visit www.tourism-culture.com or http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/tourisme.

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Daniela Carl

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds

LS1 3ED

UK

phone +44 (0)113- 812 8541

fax +44 (0)113- 812 8544

www.tourism-culture.com

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Forthcoming International Conferences:

Journeys of Expression VIII: Celebrating through Times of Crisis: Prospects and Potentials for Tourism, Festivals and Cultural Events

20-21 April, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

World Heritage and Tourism: Managingfor the Global and Local

3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada

New MA Course 

MA Cultural Tourism

For more information please go to www.tourism-culture.com

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Dear list members,

We wish to inform you about the following forthcoming event organised by the Centre for Tourism and Culture Management, Copenhagen Business School and the

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University (www.tourism-culture.com) in association with the International Festivals and Events Association Europe (www.ifeaeurope.com)

Journeys of Expression VIII

Celebrating through times of crisis: prospects and potentials for tourism, festivals and cultural events

Copenhagen, Denmark 20^th – 21^st April 2010

Building on the established collaboration between the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) and the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA), this conference will bring together international academic researchers in the field of tourism and festival studies with policy makers and practitioners in the festivals and cultural events sector. The CTCC and IFEA are delighted to be working in partnership with the Centre for Tourism and Culture Management, Copenhagen Business School in the organisation and hosting of this event which coincides with IFEA’s annual conference.

The conference will discuss the complex implications of the global economic downturn for the relationships between tourism, festivals and cultural events. We particularly welcome paper proposals that consider questions of how the balance between social, artistic and commercial aspects of festivals can be sustained during these challenging times and how festivals and cultural events and their attractiveness to tourists may contribute to addressing economic, social and environmental crises at local, regional, national and international levels. The conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark and will form the 8^th edition of the ‘Journeys of Expression’ conferences organised by the CTCC with partners since 2002.

Conference Aims

Festivals and cultural events of all kinds are of enduring and growing interest to policy makers and practitioners in the arts, community development, regeneration and, tourism sectors. This interest and involvement gives rise to a number of critical questions concerning the relationships between these sectors in the development, management and evaluation of festivals and cultural events during times of economic downturn, social and environmental crises. The conference aims to share the latest research findings and debates in these areas of critical concern for researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike. Proposals for papers are welcome from researchers working across the social sciences and humanities in examining festival and tourism relationships in any international setting.

Themes of Interest

Key themes of interest to the conference include:

• Economic development policy and regeneration dimensions of festivals and cultural events
• Partnerships and collaborations in festival planning, management and performance

• Festivals as product and packaging opportunities for the tourism sector

• The contribution of festivals and cultural events to place images

• The re-structuring, re-shaping and re-animation of city spaces and new communities through festivals and cultural events

• Festival and event 'legacies'

• Emerging tourist market trends and their implications for festivals and cultural events

• Service quality management at festivals and cultural events

• Economic assessments of festivals and cultural events

• Managing risk and visitor behaviour at festivals and cultural events

• Festivals and cultural events as sites of protest and dissent

Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words with full correspondence details as an electronic file to both Dr. Philip Long (p.e.long@...) and Dr Lise Lyck (ll.tcm@...) as soon as possible but by January 15th 2010 at the latest. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special edition of the journal Event Management.

For further information in due to course please visit the conference’s page at http://www.tourism-culture.com/conferences_and_events.html

Cheers

Daniela

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Daniela Carl

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds LS1 3ED

UK

phone +44 (0)113- 812 8541

fax +44 (0)113- 812 8544

www.tourism-culture.com

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Forthcoming Events

International Conferences:

Journeys of Expression VIII: Celebrating through Times of Crisis: Prospects and Potentials for Tourism, Festivals and Cultural Events

20-21 April, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and Local

3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada

CTCC Guest Lecture Series 2009/ 2010:

Sun, Sea, Sand and Silicone

19 November 2009, 4:30 - 5:30pm, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter, D-Building, Room D507

by Dr David Bell and Professor Ruth Holliday (University of Leeds)

The Trajectories of three East African Museums

28 January 2010, 4:30-5:30pm, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter, Room LSB135 (LTB3)

by Sarah Longair (University of London and the British Museum)

New MA Course 

MA Cultural Tourism

For more information please go to www.tourism-culture.com