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.

Website: http://www.tourism-culture.com/news_3.html

The Marine Bill White Paper: exploring the detail

The Marine Bill White Paper: exploring the detail, 3 July 2007

The Brunei Gallery lecture theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London, is the venue for this one-day conference whose aim is to help a diverse range of stakeholders gain a better understanding of the detail involved in the Marine Bill and with the developing proposals. It will allow key issues to be raised and discussed with both the Defra Marine Bill team and the major stakeholders in the process. Online booking available via the CMS (Coastal Management for Sustainability) website.