Overview

This is the second of a series of three International Creative Tourism Webinars in Spring 2021 within the umbrella of CREATOUR International. Conceived as “global conversations,” the webinars aim to create a platform for connecting creative tourism research and practice in a spirit of co-learning.

Each webinar will bring together practitioners and researchers, and feature guests from creative tourism and allied areas of practice. Following initial presentations (approx. 10 minutes each), we will be encouraging all participants to engage in an open discussion, aiming to foster a platform to discuss experiences, concerns, and various gaps in knowledge (and practice), especially during this uncertain time.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, both the culture and tourism sectors have been devastated, with retrenchment of actions common and organizational fragilities accentuated. The need for greater attention to place-embedded and socially-minded approaches has become ever greater with new strategies and mindsets being championed in both research and practice contexts. Alas, many of these narratives remain largely at a conceptual level, with the pragmatic extensions of this new thinking still in formation.

This session will focus on addressing the challenges and building new practices of bridging between the tourism and cultural sectors to develop strategies and alliances for collaborations in ‘re-emergence’ contexts.
 

Invited speakers:

Larissa Almeida | RECRIA Brazil: Rede Brasileira de Experiências e Turismo Criativo, Recife, Brazil
Larissa Almedia is one of the co-founders and a member of the management board of RECRIA – Brazilian Experiences and Creative Tourism Network and author of the book, Turismo Criativo: uma viagem por culturas, encontros e experiências. She is a consultant and researcher on creative tourism and social innovation, and holds a master’s degree in Business (UFPE, BR). She has been working on tourism and local development for the past eight years. Larissa's research interests are in sustainability, creativity, entrepreneurship, and networks.

Marie-Andrée Delisle | Université du Québec à Montréal / www.madelis.com, Canada
Marie-Andrée Delisle is a tourism development strategist with over 30 years of experience. Her travels to over 65 countries as consultant, workshop facilitator, lecturer, and travel trade writer have shaped her knowledge and comprehension of the tourism and travel industry. Her firm specializes in tourism product enhancement, development, and marketing (www.madelis.com). A member of the CREATOUR advisory council, she holds a master’s degree in tourism planning and management and is currently working on her PhD on creative tourism at Université du Québec à Montréal. She co-authored a book on alternative tourism published in 2007, entitled Un autre tourisme est-il possible?, and has written a chapter on “Montreal, a creative tourism destination?” in A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).
 

Lénia Carvalho Marques | Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Lénia Marques is Assistant Professor of Cultural Organizations and Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Previously she worked as researcher and lecturer in different countries (Portugal, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands). Lénia Marques is also a member of the Board of Directors of the World Leisure Organization since 2016. In 2019-2020, she was responsible for the KIEM-NWO project on Creative Entrepreneurship and Tourism. She has published extensively in creativity and innovation in tourism, leisure and events. She is co-editor of “Leisure and Innovation,” a special issue of the World Leisure Journal (2019); Event Design: Social perspectives and practices (2015); Intercultural Crossings: Conflict, Memory and Identity (2012); and “Exploring Creative Tourism” (2012), a special issue of the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice. She has also been advising different countries, regions and cities on culture and tourism policies. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Erasmus+ project CultSense - Sensitizing Young Travellers for Local Cultures (2020-2023) (www.cultsense.com).

Organizing team:

Introduction: Nancy Duxbury  | Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Nancy Duxbury is a senior researcher and co-coordinator of the “Cities, Cultures and Architecture” research group at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She is a member of the European Expert Network on Culture and investigates cultural mapping, culture in sustainable development, valuation of cultural participation, and culture-based development strategies in smaller communities. She was the principal investigator of the national research-and-application project “CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas” (2016-2020).

Moderator:  Fiona Bakas | Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal
Fiona Bakas holds a PhD Tourism from Otago University, New Zealand, and is a tourism lecturer at Lusófona University, Lisbon. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher (2014-2020) on two national projects in tourism in Portugal: one on creative tourism and one on gender in tourism labour. Fiona is currently lecturing in tourism and conducting research into educational technologies in tourism education and traveling as an intention to learn a foreign language. Her research interests include creative tourism, events and festivals, qualitative and action-research methodologies, cultural mapping, entrepreneurship, gender and tourism labour, ecotourism, and community engagement.

Community manager: Tiago Vinagre de Castro | Centre for Social Studies/Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Tiago Vinagre de Castro is a cultural manager, urbanist, and researcher. In the past 15 years, he has been working mainly in the cultural sector as a producer, manager, and creator within national and international projects. In 2012, he cofounded the NGO 4iS - Platform for Social Innovation where he develops urban transformation and community development projects through culture and participation. He was integrated within the CES research team of the CREATOUR project (2016-2020). Currently, he is a PhD student in Sociology with the research project “INTERMEDIA - The role of cultural intermediaries in the dynamics of urban regeneration in small cities” and consultant in the project “CREATOUR AZORES.”

Technical manager: Sílvia Silva  | Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Sílvia Silva is a member of the “Cities, Cultures and Architecture” research group at CES and since December 2020 she is one of the representatives of the Junior Researchers at the CES governing bodies. Currently, she is a researcher in the H2020 project “UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture” (2020-2024). She was Research Manager in the project “CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas” (2016-2020), directly collaborating with the research centres and different entities from public and private sectors, culture, tourism, and local development.

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Registration

This activity is carried out through the Zoom platform, with mandatory registration – up to May 4th. Participation is limited to the number of places available.

To register click HERE

The link to the session  will be emailed to all registrants on May 5th.

Please keep the microphone muted until the discussion is open. The host may remove disruptive participants.

Open activities streamlined in digital format, such as this one, do not confer a declaration of participation.