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Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Leeds Metropolitan University
www.tourism-culture.com
International Festivals and Events Association Europe
www.ifeaeurope.com
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Human Rites and City Lights:
Balancing socio-cultural, artistic, tourism and commercial dimensions of festivals
Bratislava, Slovakia 18th – 20th March 2009
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 achieving balance between social, artistic and commercial aspects of festivals. The conference will take place in Bratislava, Slovakia and will form the research stream at the 18th Annual Conference of IFEA.
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 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 alongside tourism. 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:
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 February 13th 2009 at the latest. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special edition of the journal Event Management.
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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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