Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Leeds Metropolitan University
www.tourism- culture.com
International Festivals and Events Association Europe
www.ifeaeurope. com
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & 1st 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. 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'
* 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 (p.e.long@leedsmet. ac.uk ) as soon as possible but by January 16th 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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