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"Human
Rites and City Lights:
Balancing
socio-cultural, artistic, tourism and commercial dimensions of festival"
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:
- 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 (
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) 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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