CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Forthcoming Conferences

• Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World (2010)
• Tourism and Seductions of Difference: 1st Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference (2010)
• Journeys of Expression VIII: Celebrating through times of crisis: prospects and potentials for tourism, festivals and cultural events (2010)
• World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local (2010)

Previous Conferences

• Researching Coastal and Resort Destination Management: Cultures and Histories of Tourism (2009)
• Emotion in Motion: The Passion of Tourism, Travel and Movement (2009)
• Texts and Tours: Developing the Potential of Literary Tourism (2008)
• Resorting to the Coast: Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside (2009)
• 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)
• 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)
• CTCC Workshop Series (2010)

Forthcoming Guest Lectures

• Joan C. Beal: Tourism and the Commodification of Language (18.03.2010)
• Pamila Gupta & Saskia Cousin (27.04.2010)

Guest Lecture Series Archive

• Anne Marit Waade: Crime scene as film location and destination
• David Botterill: Representations of tourism in 20th century opera
• Dilip Medhi: Culture, Heritage and Tourism in North East India
• Fatimah Hassan: Royal Tourism in Malaysia: Prospects and Challenges
• Richard White: Nation and recreation in the first national parks
• Shelley Hornstein: "Starchitecture"
• Tomke Lask: "Impact Evaluation of Culture-Led Regeneration and the Sustainability of Cultural Policy: In Praise of Slow Methods in times of Marketing, City-Branding and Richard Florida"
• 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
• Sarah Longair: The Trajectories of three East African museums
• Gonzalo Diaz Meneses: Cultural Tourism Agenda from a Social Marketing Perspective
• Hazel Tucker: Pekmezciler (the pekmez-makers): the end of a sweet tradition?
• Peter Germuska: Destination Management and the Capitals of Culture Programme: The case of Kosice, Slovakia
• David Bell & Ruth Holliday: Sun, Sea, Sand and Silicone
• Keith Hollinshead: Transitionality Unrecognised
• Stan Frankland: Holidays in other peoples's misery: reconfiguring authenticity within the moral economy of pity

Other Events

• RAI Ethnographic Film Festival (2009)
• Faith, Hospitality and Shopping: Re-imagining Intercultural Dialogue (2008)
• Global Events Congress IV Events and Festivals Research (2010)
• 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)
• Leisure Studies Association Conference 2010 - Diversity and Equality in Leisure, Sport and Tourism (2010)
• PhD Networking Conference: Exploring Tourism II: Issues in PhD Research (2008)
• Tourism Development and Management Tourism in a Changing World: Prospects and Challenges (2009)
• Motion and Emotion within Place (2009)