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Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
www.tourism-culture.com
International Festivals and Events Association Europe
www.ifeaeurope.com
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & 1st CALL FOR PAPERS
Festivals and Partnerships: Policy, Management and Marketing
3 - 5 march 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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 again bring together international researchers with policy makers
and practitioners in the festivals and cultural events sector. The conference will discuss the complex relationships between
tourism and festivals, focusing in particular on aspects of policy, partnerships, management and marketing. The conference will
take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 3 to 5 March 2005 and will form the research stream at the 14th Annual Conference of
IFEA. The themes to be discussed are inspired in part by the highly successful IFEA conference, Festivals and Communities:
Realising the Potential that was held in Sheffield in 2004.
Conference Aims
Festivals and cultural events of all kinds are of growing interest to policy makers and practitioners in the arts, community
development, regeneration and tourism. 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. The conference
aims to share the latest research findings and debates in these areas of critical concern for researchers, policy makers and
practitioners alike.
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'
* Operational management and leadership
* Emerging tourist market trends, 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
Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words with full address details as an electronic file to Dr. Philip Long
[log in to unmask] as soon as possible but by January 14th 2005 at the latest. Selected papers will be considered for publication
in a special edition of the journal Event Management.
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