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Een rapport voor het netwerk van de United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), inclusief casestudy's van Amsterdam, Barcelona, Kopenhagen, Lissabon, Montreal en Rome.
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Een studie voor de UNWTO en de European Travel Commission over de groeiende integratie van toerisme en cultuur in steden.
Een overzicht van vraag, aanbod en beleid voor cultureel toerisme ontwikkeld op basis van het ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Project.
Een speciale uitgave over de kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve meting van evenementervaringen van de ATLAS Events Group
Een evaluatie van de culturele, economische, sociale en imago-effecten van de Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa in 2007.
Creative Tourism Business Models
An analysis of business models in the field of creative tourism, published in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.
Eventful Cities evalueert theoretische perspectieven en verbindt theorie en praktijk aan de hand van casestudy's van steden en evenementen over de hele wereld. Er worden kritische succesfactoren geïdentificeerd die steden en regio's kunnen helpen bij het ontwikkelen van evenementstrategieën. Dit boek is essentieel om te lezen voor elke niet-gegradueerde of afgestudeerde student en alle beoefenaars en beleidsmakers die betrokken zijn bij evenementenbeheer, cultureel management, kunstadministratie, stadsstudies, culturele studies en toerisme.
Rethinking authenticity
An open access paper in Annals of Tourism research on the production and consumption of authentic experiences through the lens of complexity theory.
Papers from the ATLAS Conference in 2021, analysing differetn aspects of the relationships between festivals, cities and tourism
"This work is among the most articulate and persuasive in bringing together a number
of concepts and threads to chart a new path. Richards is successful in suggesting and illustrating an approach that embraces many of the current ideas that are floating around in the literature and that, to my knowledge, have not previously been brought together and linked in a simple, readily understandable,
logical fashion. This is a considerable achievement, and it makes the book important reading for those interested in tourism, as well as those concerned about other fields that engage with tourism, such as heritage." (Review by Geoff Wall)
This study aimed to determine the motivations of a select group of South Africans in terms of their potential engagement with cultural tourism; more specifically, the study set out to show whether these motivations influence the cultural activities that the tourists want to participate in and whether their interest in specific cultural activities determines their destination choices. Furthermore, the mediating role of activities in the relationship between cultural motivations and destination choice was also assessed.
Millennials as potential creative tourists in South Africa: A CHAID approach to market segmentation
Creative tourism has recently emerged as an important area of tourism development, particularly in the Global North. In the Global South, studies of the profile of creative tourists and their motives for partaking in creative tourism are limited. This paper investigates creative tourism demand among South African millennials, analysing what motivates their participation and developing a descriptive consumer profile. CHAID analysis was used for segmentation, revealing a group with a high participation intention and a second group with a low probability of creative tourism participation. Creative tourism intentions were linked to knowledge acquisition, skills and escape motivations, and demographic characteristics including relationship status and gender. Respondents were more likely to participate in domestic rather than international creative tourism, indicating the potential for creative tourism development in South Africa. The findings could help managers and policymakers meet the needs of creative tourists, addressing shortfalls in product development, experience design and marketing.
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China’s pre-pandemic national-level planning advocated a combination of culture and tourism to advance growth in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) mega-region. Culture is seen as increasing regional cohesion, with multi-destination travel products connecting subregions and cities. This paper examines perceptions of progress towards a coherent GBA cultural identity and its implications for tourism. We examine tourism stakeholder perceptions of the GBA, assess the prospects for the development of collective identities in the region and assess the prospects for implementation of the GBA brand. Surveys and interviews with stakeholders indicate that the prevalent top-down planning approach has so far generated limited regional coherence and may also be limiting bottom-up placemaking initiatives. Debordering between Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland cities offers opportunities for tourism development, but these have so far been limited, also because of intensifying competition between mainland GBA cities in international markets, challenging the implementation of an umbrella brand. Regional stakeholders so far show little buy-in to the overarching ‘quality living circle’ concept for the GBA. New governance structures may be to support the development of a coherent regional identity and generate place leadership to successfully combine top-down and bottom-up placemaking initiatives.
How can small cities compete effectively in a globalised world? This book analyses how creative placemaking strategies can level the playing field for smaller places.
The third edition of the ATLAS Creative Tourism Bibliography provides a curated selection of 400 publications on this expanding area of research.
This viewpoint paper aims to analyse the increasingly crucial role of networks in leisure and tourism. It considers different ways of understanding networks, drawing on the work of Tim Ingold and Randall Collins. In particular, it assesses the use of different metaphors for network builders, including Ingold’s reflections on ants and spiders, and introduces the idea of archipelagos as a conceptual frame for networks. Since Manuel Castells coined the phrase ‘network society’ in his 1996 opus, the rise of the Internet and social media has made his vision a global reality. We are increasingly connected to people and places across the world, and this has also transformed the way that we work, travel, and enjoy leisure. This paper considers the role of networks in contemporary society and how these are conceived in the fields of tourism and leisure. One paradox of the network society is that broadening connections serve to narrow our view, reflected in research networks by the increasing dominance of English and an Anglo-Saxon research culture. We pay attention to the relationship between different network forms and effects, and what ‘makes things happen’ in networks. Building on Ingold’s (2008) metaphors of the ANT and the SPIDER as network-makers, we introduce the Archipelago as a new way of thinking about networks that reflects the reciprocal creation of network value.