CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Forthcoming Conferences

• Traditions and Transformations:Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region (2009)
• Attractions and Events as Catalysts for Regeneration and Social Change (2008)

Previous Conferences

• Film, Television, Tourism and Regeneration (2007)
• Journeys of Expression VI: Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism (2007)
• Journeys of Expression VII: Celebrating the Edges of the World: Tourism and Festivals of the Coast and Sea (2008)
• Researching Destination Management, Policy and Planning: Linking Culture, Heritage and Tourism (2007)
• Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel (2007)
• Exploring Tourism: Issues in PhD Research (2007)
• Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation (2006)
• Journeys of Expression V: Tourism and the Roots / Routes of Religious Festivity (2006)
• Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages, and Stories (2005)
• Journeys of Expression IV: Tourism, Carnival and Folklore (2005)
• Tourism and Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth (2004)
• Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice (2004)
• Tourism and Photography: Still Visions - Changing Lives (2003)
• Journeys of Expression II: Cultural Festivals/Events and Tourism (2003)
• Journeys of Expression I: Cultural Festivals/Events and Tourism (2002)
• Tourism 2000: Time for Celebration? (2000)

Workshop Series

• Interdisciplinary Workshop Series "Major Concepts in Tourism Research" (2008)

Forthcoming Guest Lectures

Guest Lecture Series Archive

• Alison Phipps: Languages and Tourism
• Carol Silverman: Gypsy Performances/ Romani Identities in World Music
• Franco Bianchini: The Changing Nature of Local Distinctiveness
• John Walton: Tourism, History, Heritage and Regeneration
• Joy Hendry: Tourism as a Resource for Cultural Healing
• Maurice Roche: Media Europe, Cosmopolitanism and Tourism: Reflections on festivals and mega-events
• Richard Hallet: Analyzing Tourism Texts
• Rosaleen Duffy: Neoliberalising Nature?
• Tim Edensor: The Bus Tour: The intersection of Tourist and Rural Rhythms
• Keith Hollinshead: Transitionality Unrecognised
• Stan Frankland: Holidays in other peoples's misery: reconfiguring authenticity within the moral economy of pity

Other Events

• Cultural and Event Tourism: Issues and Debates (2008)
• Hyper-Tourism: Re-Thinking Tradition in Tourism And Travel (2006)
• IFEA Europe Conference. Festivals and Communities: Realising the Potential (2004)
• IFEA Europe Conference. Festivals and Identities: People, Places and Programmes (2006)
• IFEA Europe Conference. Festivals and Partnerships: Policy, Management and Marketing (2005)
• IFEA Europe Conference: Nurturing Creativity-Contrast-Challenge-Change (2008)
• International Lake Tourism Conference: Marketing, Development, Protection (2005)
• PhD Networking Conference: Exploring Tourism II: Issues in PhD Research (2008)