Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British
Geographers)
Manchester, 26–28 August 2009
First call for papers
Hospitality and regeneration
Sponsored by the Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG)
Hospitality can play an important role in the regeneration process (Bell, 2007).
Bars, cafes, restaurants, hotels and clubs provide the contexts for interaction,
and transactions of hospitality facilitate the formation of networks and cultural
practices that transform urban and suburban spaces (Latham, 2003; Lugosi
and Lugosi, 2008). The provision and consumption of hospitality can become
drivers of change in urban contexts; hospitality can provide the social and
economic underpinning for ongoing regeneration, and its particular forms, for
example culinary culture, offer ‘powerful symbolic statements about urban
fortunes’ (Bell and Binnie, 2005, p. 80). The location of hospitality venues can
be used as part of a civilising or rehabilitation process, and venues often
reflect an area’s cosmopolitanism; social and commercial practices of
hospitality can encourage visitors or residents into an area, and its provision
may form part of a broader strategy for capital and employment generation.
However, certain forms of hospitality can disrupt the social practices of
existing residents or visitors: for example, the emergence of branded
hospitality venues can undermine the unique characteristics of an area; new
venues may displace existing providers, and activities such as vertical drinking
can create a range of social problems.
This session welcomes papers that help to develop a greater understanding of
the relationship between hospitality and regeneration, and we particularly
welcome theoretical and empirical papers that explore one or more of the
following issues:
- The role of hospitality in policy, planning and regeneration
- Hospitality-led regeneration
- Creative cities, creative classes and hospitality
- Hospitality, place-marketing and promotion
- The economic, social and environmental impacts of hospitality provision in
urban, suburban and rural contexts
- Hospitality, culture and regeneration
- Hospitality and gentrification
- Hospitality, community and identity
- Hospitality provision and building reuse
- Entrepreneurship and hospitality
- Heritage, hospitality and conservation
- Aesthetics and hospitality
- The entanglement of social and commercial forms of hospitality in
regeneration
Authors should submit a 200-word abstract by Friday 16th of January to Peter
Lugosi, the session convenor, via email [log in to unmask] Authors
of accepted papers will be notified by the 22nd of January.
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