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Written by Joachim Willms [Managing Director]
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Celebrating
through Times of Crisis -
Prospects
and Potentials for Tourism, Festivals and Cultural Events
Copenhagen, Denmark, 20th
– 21st April 2010
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 bring together international academic researchers in the
field of tourism and festival studies with policy makers and practitioners in
the festivals and cultural events sector. The CTCC and IFEA are delighted to be
working in partnership with the Centre for Tourism and Culture
Management, Copenhagen Business School in the
organisation and hosting of this event which coincides with IFEA’s annual
conference.
The conference will discuss the complex implications of the
global economic downturn for the relationships between tourism, festivals and
cultural events. We particularly welcome paper proposals that consider
questions of how the balance between social, artistic and commercial aspects of
festivals can be sustained during these challenging times and how festivals and
cultural events and their attractiveness to tourists may contribute to
addressing economic, social and environmental crises at local, regional,
national and international levels. The conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark and will form the 8th edition of the ‘Journeys of Expression’ conferences
organised by the CTCC with partners since 2002.
Conference Aims
Festivals and cultural events of all kinds are of enduring
and 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 during times of economic downturn, social and
environmental crises. The conference aims to share the latest research findings
and debates in these areas of critical concern for researchers, policy makers
and practitioners alike. Proposals
for papers are welcome from researchers working across the social sciences and
humanities in examining festival and tourism relationships in any international
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Written by Joachim Willms [Managing Director]
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Call for papers 2nd International Polar Tourism Research Network Conference
Tourism, People and Protected Areas in Polar Wilderness
Date: 13-16 June 2010,
Venue: Abisko, Kiruna municipality, Sweden
Polar areas have recently raised enormous interest from various directions. Geopolitical struggle over resources and growing concern regarding the impacts of climate change on polar environments are only two reasons for the increasing awareness directed towards polar areas often focusing the regions’ ecological vulnerability.
These changes are intertwined with issues related to human mobility and here particularly the role of tourism can be highlighted. The remoteness of the polar areas promises tourists extreme climatic conditions, undisturbed wilderness, authentic heritage and exotism. These factors have been successfully used to lure an increasing number of tourists into the polar regions. Hence meanwhile desired by national and regional governments and also some communities as a way of achieving regional development and sustaining livelihoods for polar peoples, the growing numbers of tourists have created concern among environmentalists, academics and locals. Obviously, the needs and desires of tourists collide with local subsistence, global conservation interest and other resource exploitation. Hence in some cases mining, tourism, nature protection and indigenous traditions compete for the same spaces. The idea of ‘peripheral’ polar areas is thus increasingly contested and in the light of global change polar areas have been moved into the center of interest as never before.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
BEST EN Think Tank X: Networking for Sustainable Tourism
June 27 – 30, 2010, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
About Think Tank X
The BEST Education Network is holding Think Tank X, entitled
“Networking for Sustainable Tourism”, in Vienna from June 27 - 30, 2010
in conjunction with MODUL University Vienna, Austria.
The BEST Education Network is an international
consortium of educators committed to furthering the development and
dissemination of knowledge in the field of sustainable tourism. At a
BEST EN Think Tank, research is presented, sustainable tourism topics
are addressed, and research and educational materials for use in
undergraduate education are developed. The BEST EN Think Tank is about
more than presenting papers, it is an opportunity to work with others
to create new knowledge.
The focus of Think
Tank X is “Networking for Sustainable Tourism”. This theme highlights
the importance of networking in creating and disseminating knowledge on
sustainable tourism as well as in promoting and implementing more
sustainable practices in tourism. BEST EN, being a network of tourism
educators from around the world, wants to use this tenth anniversary to
establish and strengthen ties to other organizations and networks
focusing on sustainable tourism.
Vienna has
always been a hub for organizations and businesses from all over the
world and offers a great opportunity not only to discuss theoretical
concepts on networks but to actually make use of the networking
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