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Tourism in Berlin – Opportunities and Challenges for the City

by Ares Kalandides

On Saturday 10th November 2012, several Berlin groups of the German Green party organized a one-day conference to talk about tourism and its consequences for Berlin. The context is important: in 2011, before the Berlin elections, there had been several very controversial public discussions on tourism, which were covered by the media (1)(2)(3) and led to a substantial polarization of the discussion. I did not manage to stay for the whole conference, but I was on the initial panel and would like to repeat here what I said: Continue reading

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Leaving Utrecht Behind, Thinking About Manchester

Your Research Interest from PhDcomics.com

Your Research Interest from PhDcomics.com

By Efe Sevin

We had a great conference over a week ago in Utrecht. Once again I would like to thank Ares and his colleagues for creating another opportunity for interested parties to meet.

Ever since I returned back to DC, I have been thinking about my research and state of the field. I, indeed, saw some developments in the field since Bogota – we definitely had more of a common understanding in main concepts (-We still had different conceptualizations but we understood each other), Despite Gregory Ashworth’s advise against trying to predict to future, I want to throw a couple of ideas about the future of research in the field based on my observations in Utrecht.

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Utrecht Update | Final Programme Now Online

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the finalized programme is now online for the International Place Branding Conference «Roots – Politics – Methods» to be held in Utrecht, Netherlands, between 20th and 21st January 2012.

Please visit the official conference website (
http://de.amiando.com/FNFBVAT.html?page=594081
) and click on the “programme tab”. Also, please note that papers written by multiple authors will be presented by the author with a “*” appearing next to their name.

If you have any questions about the programme, do not hesitate to contact Verena Röber at (conference@inprojectis.com)

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Second Call for Papers | Mediterranean Tourism Conference in Antalya April 2012

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in:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the School of Tourism and Hotel Management (Akdeniz University Antalya) are happy to announce the Second Call for Papers for the Conference “Destination Management and Branding in the Mediterranean Region” to be held in Antalya in April 2012.

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Update: Special Edition of the International Place Branding Conference in Utrecht (January 2012)

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In:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the Department of Human Geography & Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University are happy to announce that the official conference website for the special edition of the International Place Branding Conference (20th/21st January in Utrecht, Netherlands) will go on-line the last week of September.

The organisers have received more than 70 abstracts for the conference and are currently restructuring the programme in order to allow more authors to present their papers at the conference. Thus, authors will be informed the last week of September if their abstract was accepted by the scientific committee.

Likewise, the registration for the conference will start the last week of September. Authors presenting a paper at the conference will have to register until October 20, 2011.

You can find more information about the conference on this blog (here).

For organisational issues please contact Verena Röber at conference@inprojectis.com.

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Second Call for Papers for the Special Edition of the International Place Branding Conference in Utrecht January 2012

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in:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the Department of Human Geography & Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University are happy to announce that the second Call for Papers for the special edition of the International Place Branding Conference from 20th to 21st January in Utrecht, Netherlands, has been issued.

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Place Branding Conference – Announcement: Special Issue by the Journal of Place Management and Development

In:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the Department of Human Geography & Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University are happy to announce that the Journal of Place Management and Development will be publishing a special issue with a selection of papers presented at the International Place Branding Conference (Utrecht, January 2012) with Ares Kalandides and Mihalis Kavaratzis as guest editors. This issue (Volume 5, Issue 1) will be published in March 2012.

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Mediterranean Tourism Conference

in:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the School of Tourism and Hotel Management (Akdeniz University Antalya) are happy to announce the first edition of the Conference “Destination Management and Branding in the Mediterranean Region” to be held in Antalya in April 2012. Departing from the ongoing economic and political crisis in the region, we will discuss the role of sustainable tourism. Accordingly bearing the title “Sustainable Tourism in Times of Crisis,” the first edition of this conference will aim at a broad understanding of the complexity of tourism, ranging from topics like marketing and management to ecologic and social challenges and conflicts. Also, the conference will enrich the dialogue between various actors from different disciplines and different parts of the Mediterranean region by discussing the role of governance and networks as well as the impacts of tourism on society and culture. The exchange between the participants about best practice examples can result in a common understanding of sustainable tourism that will function as the base for further thoughts about destination management and branding.

Visit our conference website for further information about themes and subthemes here.

Please find the first Call for Papers here. The exact venue and the fees will be announced shortly.

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2nd Nordic Urban Workshop at Stockholm University 25th-26th October 2011

Welcome to the second Nordic Urban workshop, a two-day meeting directed towards PhD students and young researchers studying urban dynamics from a broad range of disciplines.
The workshop features a key lecture and a career strategy discussion, along with parallel sessions to discuss each other´s work. This will provide you with good opportunities to discuss ideas in an informal atmosphere while presenting your work in an international setting and expanding your network.

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Four Days of Critical Geography: 4th Nordic Geographers Meeting in Roskilde, Denmark

By Renard Teipelke

From May 24th to 27th 2011, more than 200 scholars met in Roskilde, Denmark, for the 4th Nordic Geographers Meeting – an international conference not only for geographers, but also for experts from other disciplines (such as political science, sociology, economics and marketing) who deal with the issue of space in their research. Organized and hosted by the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change of Roskilde University, the conference with the theme “Geographical Knowledge, Nature and Practice” provided the room for discussing the importance of places of knowledge and their possible class-ridden, gendered, or ethnocentric character.

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