Preliminary Program Expert Meeting on Alternative and Creative tourism in cities June 13th-14th, 2013, Barcelona

1. Organize: Collaborates:
ATLAS City and National Capital Tourism Special Interest Group
ATLAS Cultural Tourism Special Interest Group
Creative Tourism Network®
Expert Meeting on Alternative and Creative tourism in cities
June 13th-14th, 2013, Barcelona
As cities increasingly engage in a competitive struggle for attention, community cohesion and inward investment, they are trying
to 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 in
the suburbs or in the inner city, where attractive alternative ‘scenes’ have developed. Examples include DUMBO in Brooklyn or
Hoxton in London. These development have been signalled in a number of studies, but so far there has been no structured
overview 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 and
understanding 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 the
meeting. Selected papers will then be published in an edited volume.
Conference fee
The fee for ATLAS members is €150, and for non-members €200. This covers all meeting sessions, coffee breaks, lunches and
materials.
Conference committee
Greg Richards, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Melanie Smith, Budapest Business School, Hungary
Robert Maitland, Centre for Tourism Research, University of Westminster, UK
Caroline Couret, Creative Tourism Network®
Contacts:
g.w.richards@uvt.nl
info@creativetourismnetwork.org

2. ATLAS City and National Capital Tourism Special Interest Group
ATLAS Cultural Tourism Special Interest Group
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
Albert Arias Sans The relational value of urban Universitat Rovira i Virgili,
commons: towards a new Research Group “territorial
Antonio Paolo Russo epistemology of (creative) tourism. Analysis and Tourism Studies”
Illustrations from Barcelona .
Greg Richards Creative and relational tourism in Tilburg University
Barcelona
11.30 Coffee break
Robert Maitland Urban Explorers: looking for the real University of Westminster, UK
(outer) London?
Melanie Smith Developing Ethnic Quarters as Budapest Business School
AlternativeTourism Attractions: A Case Department of Tourism
Study of Budapest.
13.00 General discussion
14.00 Lunch

3. ATLAS City and National Capital Tourism Special Interest Group
ATLAS Cultural Tourism Special Interest Group
Creative Tourism Network®
Expert Meeting on Alternative and Creative tourism in cities
June 13th-14th, 2013, Barcelona
• Paper session 2
Lénia Marques Ephemeral art in the ephemeral place: CELTOR / NHTV University of
creative temporary accommodation Applied Sciences (the
Kristel Zegers Netherlands)
G. Emanuele Adamo Cities on the stage: creativity as source of Uob, Uk- Unical, Italy.
Sonia Ferrari differentiation.
Monica Gilli Cinema and cities image. Bicocca University of Milan
Sonia Ferrari University of Calabria
17:00 Coffee Break
Rafael Machado Exploring the Biennial concept to Polytechnic Institute of
Carlos Fernandes promote new relations in art, culture Viana do Castelo,
José Paulo Queiroz and alternative tourism. Portugal
JPQ Consutant, Portugal
Ana Paula Garcia Spolon Brazil in UNESCO´s Creative Cities
Jorge G. Camargo Filho Network: a research on the feasibility of
inserting Rio de Janeiro into the
category Cities of Music.
Friday 14th June
9.30 Paper session 3
Lan-Lan Chang Influencing factors on creative tourists’ Department of Park,
Kenneth F. Backman revisiting intentions: The roles of Recreation and Tourism
motivation, experience and perceived Management
value. Clemson University,
USA.
Goretti Silva Gastronomic events as creative tourism Instituto Politécnico de
Marta Cardoso experiences. Viana do Castelo,
Portugal.
‘Benefits of Creative Tourism European Master in
Milica Ilincic Experience – The Tourist Perspective’. Tourism Management
University of Girona.

4. 11.00 Coffee break
Ole Kjaer Mansfeldt The in-betweens of tourism and the The Royal Danish
experience economy: When tourists Academy of Fine Arts
escape the scapes. – School of Design.
Susana Rachão Focusing on creativity to reengineer Polytechnic Institute of
Carlos Fernandes tourism development in an emerging Viana do Castelo,
tourism destination. Portugal.
Nonthawan Songserm Community Participatory Approach Assumption University
Jutamas (Jan) Wisansing for Creative Tourism: Cases of Thailand
examples from Thailand. Perfect Link
Consulting Group.
13.00 General discussion
14.00 Lunch
15.30 Paper session 4
Roberta GARIBALDI Not only low-cost. Home swapping as Dept. Economics
Francesca FORNO creative tourism strategy. CeSTIT research Group,
Dept. Humanities and
Social Sciences
CORES Research Group,
University of Bergamo,
Italy.
Dr Ilaria Pappalepore Mapping creative tourism mobilities: a LAIBS, Anglia Ruskin
discussion of methods. University
Cambridge.
16.30 General discussion/webinar
17.30 Closing session