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Notices & Event Announcements

The January-March 2010 issue of Community Tourism News is now available. Click on the Newsletters link in the side menu.

 

A pdf copy of my Sept/Oct 2009 American Planning Association PAS Memo: Yikes, There's a Tourist in Town: Guidance for Local Planners is now available from the Tourism Online Resource Centre (TORC).

 

WORLD HERITAGE AND TOURISM: MANAGING FOR THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL

June 2-4, 2010, Quebec City, QC

As of 2009, approximately 900 sites are registered on the UNESCO World Heritage list. For many sites inscription on the World Heritage List acts as a promotional device and the management challenge is one of protection, conservation and dealing with increased numbers of tourists. For other sites, designation has not brought anticipated expansion in tourist numbers and associated investments. What is clear is that tourism is now a central concern to the wide array of stakeholders involved with World Heritage Sites. We increasingly need to understand the multi-layered relationships between the diverse range of Sites and tourism and tourists and, to focus on how tourism is effectively managed for the benefit of all.

Conference Organizers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development; the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval; the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University. 

 

BC's First Conference on Rural Tourism

April 6-8, 2010, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC

Tourism experiences can contribute to the livelihood and economic diversity of rural communities and local residents.  The conference is intended to bring together key players and community members to address the challenges associated with selecting and building tourism experiences. Environmental and social sustainability are equally valuable to tourism experiences in rural communities and will be a vital component of the conference.

 

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