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As cities increasingly engage in a competitive struggle for attention, community cohesion and inward investment, they are tryingto distinguish themselves through the development of distinctive products and experiences based on ‘alternative’ and ‘creative’forms of tourism. In many cases the growth of mass cultural tourism in cities has increased the flow of tourists to fringe areas inthe suburbs or in the inner city, where attractive alternative ‘scenes’ have developed. Examples include DUMBO in Brooklyn orHoxton in London. These development have been signalled in a number of studies, but so far there has been no structuredoverview of the field.

The aim of this expert meeting, therefore, is to bring together an international group of scholars to consider the issues raised by alternative and creative tourism development in cities, and to think about the ways that these might develop in future. The group welcome theoretical and speculative contributions to the debate, as well as empirical studies that can further our knowledge andunderstanding of the phenomenon.

Themes expected to be covered during the event include:• Alternative tourism, on and off the beaten track• New tourism areas in cities• Creative tourism development and marketing• Alternative events• Ethnic quarters and creativity• Alternative and creative gastronomy• Alternative accommodation as creative strategy (design apartments, couchsurfing, house swapping, etc)• Critiques and empirical evaluations of creative development strategies

The Expert Meeting is designed as a small-scale event for researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues.Participation in the meeting is subject to approval of an abstract and preparation of a draft version of the paper prior to themeeting. Selected papers will then be published in an edited volume.

Conference feeThe fee for ATLAS members is €150, and for non-members €200. This covers all meeting sessions, coffee breaks, lunches and

materials.

Conference committeeGreg Richards, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsMelanie Smith, Budapest Business School, HungaryRobert Maitland, Centre for Tourism Research, University of Westminster, UKCaroline Couret, Creative Tourism Network®

ATLAS City and National Capital Tourism Special Interest GroupATLAS Cultural Tourism Special Interest Group

Creative Tourism Network®

Expert Meeting on Alternative and Creative tourism in citiesJune 13th-14th, 2013, Barcelona

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Creative Tourism Network®

Expert Meeting on Alternative and Creative tourism in cities

June 13th-14th, 2013, Barcelona

Preliminary Program:

13th June

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00 Welcome, introductions from the group

10.30 Paper session 1

11.30 Coffee break

13.00 General discussion

14.00 Lunch

Albert Arias Sans

Antonio Paolo Russo

The relational value of urbancommons: towards a newepistemology of (creative) tourism.Illustrations from Barcelona .

Universitat Rovira i Virgili,Research Group “territorialAnalysis and Tourism Studies”

Greg Richards Creative and relational tourism in Barcelona

Tilburg University

Robert Maitland Urban Explorers: looking for the real (outer) London?

University of Westminster, UK

Melanie Smith Developing Ethnic Quarters as AlternativeTourism Attractions: A Case Study of Budapest.

Budapest Business SchoolDepartment of Tourism


Creative Tourism Network®Expert Meeting on Alternative and Creative tourism in cities

June 13th-14th, 2013, Barcelona

• Paper session 2

Lénia Marques

Kristel Zegers

Ephemeral art in the ephemeral place:

creative temporary accommodation

CELTOR / NHTV University of

Applied Sciences (the

Netherlands)

G. Emanuele Adamo

Sonia Ferrari

Cities on the stage: creativity as source of

differentiation.

Uob, Uk- Unical, Italy.

Monica Gilli

Sonia Ferrari

Cinema and cities image. Bicocca University of Milan

University of Calabria

Rafael Machado

Carlos Fernandes

José Paulo Queiroz

Exploring the Biennial concept to

promote new relations in art, culture

and alternative tourism.

Polytechnic Institute of

Viana do Castelo,

Portugal

JPQ Consutant, Portugal

Ana Paula Garcia Spolon

Jorge G. Camargo Filho

Brazil in UNESCO´s Creative Cities

Network: a research on the feasibility of

inserting Rio de Janeiro into the

category Cities of Music.

17:00 Coffee Break

Friday 14th June


Lan-Lan Chang

Kenneth F. Backman

Influencing factors on creative tourists’

revisiting intentions: The roles of

motivation, experience and perceived

value.

Department of Park,

Recreation and Tourism

Management

Clemson University,

USA.

Goretti Silva

Marta Cardoso

Gastronomic events as creative tourism

experiences.

Instituto Politécnico de

Viana do Castelo,

Portugal.

Milica Ilincic

‘Benefits of Creative Tourism

Experience – The Tourist Perspective’.

European Master in

Tourism Management

University of Girona.

Ole Kjaer Mansfeldt The in-betweens of tourism and the

experience economy: When tourists

escape the scapes.

The Royal Danish

Academy of Fine Arts

– School of Design.

Susana Rachão

Carlos Fernandes

Focusing on creativity to reengineer

tourism development in an emerging

tourism destination.

Polytechnic Institute of

Viana do Castelo,

Portugal.

Nonthawan Songserm

Jutamas (Jan) Wisansing

Community Participatory Approach

for Creative Tourism: Cases

examples from Thailand.

Assumption University

of Thailand

Perfect Link

Consulting Group.

11.00 Coffee break

13.00 General discussion

14.00 Lunch


Roberta GARIBALDI

Francesca FORNO

Not only low-cost. Home swapping as

creative tourism strategy.

Dept. Economics

CeSTIT research Group,

Dept. Humanities and

Social Sciences

CORES Research Group,

University of Bergamo,

Italy.

Dr Ilaria Pappalepore Mapping creative tourism mobilities: a

discussion of methods.

LAIBS, Anglia Ruskin

University

Cambridge.

16.30 General discussion/webinar

17.30 Closing session