Event Tourism: Enhancing Destinations and the Visitor Economy

Conference Organisers:
School of Services Management, Bournemouth University
Centre for Festival & Event Management, Napier University, Edinburgh

Anticipated themes include:

• Economic Impact and Legacy Studies
• Socio-Cultural, Transport & Infrastructure Impact and Legacy Studies
• Destination Image and Branding
• Destination Management
• Multi-Micro Event Strategies
• Sport Event Tourism
• Mega-Event Management and Research
• Olympic Tourism and related Research Studies
• National and Regional Policy Making
• Conceptual Studies
• Event Research Methodologies.

It is intended that the conference will blend industrial experience with academic knowledge and be of particular interest to destination management and event specialists, consultants, policy makers, destination marketing professionals, academics and research managers.

If you are interested in participating in this conference please forward completed booking form to Blake Ashwell at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or post to the address at the bottom of the form.

For academics: you are invited to submit extended abstracts on any one or more of the above themes (500-word maximum) to Blake Ashwell no later than Friday 17 November, 2006. The conference format for all abstracts is contained within the Conference Programme document (below). A selection of contributors will be invited to submit full manuscripts after the conference for potential inclusion in a Special Issue of the International Journal of Tourism Research or for inclusion in a book to be published by a major international publisher.

The drinks reception and conference dinner is to be held at WestBeach.

• Draft Conference Programme (.pdf 58kb)
• Conference Booking Form (.pdf 78kb)
• Promotional Postcard (.pdf 149kb)