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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 & 2^nd CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Human Rites and City Lights:

Balancing socio-cultural, artistic, tourism and commercial dimensions of festivals

 

Bratislava, Slovakia 18^th – 20^th 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 18^th 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:

 

• 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

 

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 13^th 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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