World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local (2010)

3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

Original papers are invited to consider subject areas including, but not limited to, the following themes:

· Marketing in the management of World Heritage Sites;

· The pragmatics of managing tourists;

· Financing World Heritage;

· Community involvement in Site management;

· Relations between intangible cultural heritage and Site management;

· The role of the private tourism sector;

· The nature of tourist experience and behaviour at World Heritage Sites;

· Shaping local, regional and national identities through Site inscription;

· Issues of governance and transnational regulation;

· Legal rights and notions of ‘ownership’;

· The management of World Heritage ‘values’;

· The geo-politics of inclusion and exclusion;

· Methods of Site evaluation;

· Managing spiritual values and biodiversity;

· The role of UNESCO and the political economies of designation.

Please submit your 500 words abstract (in French or English) including a title and full contact details as an electronic file to Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas (Maria.Gravari-Barbas@univ-paris1.fr) or Laurent Bourdeau (laurent.bourdeau@fsa.ulaval.ca) as soon as possible but no later than 15 December 2009.

Publication opportunity:

Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. Best papers from the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.

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