[URBANTH-L] Human Rites and City Lights: Balancing Socio-Cultural, Artistic, Tourism and Commercial Dimensions of Festivals (Bratislava)

[Angela Jancius]

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 at 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

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