25th and 26th of January 2024
The CETT Barcelona School of Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy (Universitat de Barcelona) and the Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo (Universidade do Algarve) organize the First International Conference on Literary and Film Tourism, to be held in Barcelona on 25 and 26 January 2024.
The theme of this first edition is "Imagined Territories: Tourist and Educational Approaches", and it aims to be a multidisciplinary meeting place for researchers, professionals, and students interested in the dialogue between territory and the layers of meaning generated by literature and film.
The conference also aims to discuss the educational and tourist potential of the cultural landscape created by literature and films.
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Thematic lines
During this first edition of the International Conference on Literary and Film Tourism, different thematic lines will be discussed, such as:
Provisional programme
| 25th January sessions | |
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Morning |
Opening session |
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Morning |
Keynote session 1: Mike Robinson |
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Morning |
Coffee Break |
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Morning |
Parallel sessions |
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Afternoon |
Round table - Education and literary heritage |
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Afternoon |
Parallel sessions |
| 26th January sessions | |
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Morning |
Keynote session 2: Deborah Castro |
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Morning |
Parallel sessions |
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Morning |
Coffee Break |
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Morning |
Round Table - DMO and Film Tourism Case Studies |
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Morning |
Closing session |
Keynotes
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Professor Mike Robinson
Nottingham Trent University, UK
More about Professor Mike Robinson
Mike is Professor of Cultural Heritage at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Before this he was Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and he remains Professor Emeritus. Mike was founder and director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at the Universities of Sheffield Hallam and Leeds Metropolitan over a twelve-year period where he also held research professorships in Tourism and Culture.
He has also held various visiting positions including Visiting Professorships at National Taiwan University (Graduate Institute of Planning) and University of Trento, Italy (Department of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Heritage), European Union Fellowship at the University of Illinois (Cultural Heritage), Research Fellow at University of KwaZulu-Natal (Department of Literature.
He is founder and is editor-in-chief, of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (published 6 issues per year by Routledge, Taylor-Francis) and founder and co-editor of the Tourism and Cultural Book Series (Channel View Publications) with over 60 international volumes published.
Mike has advised governments, transnational and state organisations, museums and heritage attractions, NGOs and community groups. He has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in over 40 countries, has supervised over 30 PhDs and has designed and organised 35 international academic and practitioner conferences.
Dr. Deborah Castro
University of Groningen, Netherlands
More about Dr. Deborah Castro
Dr. Deborah Castro is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her main research interests lie in the fields of television and audience studies and she has participated in multiple funded research projects. In 2020, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission) to investigate local residents’ perceptions of media representations of their place of residence as well as local residents’ support for film tourism initiatives in Spain.
Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Television & New Media, European Journal of Cultural Studies and Tourism Management Perspectives. She is also a research fellow at ITI-LARSyS (Portugal) and vice-chair of the Television Studies Section at the European Communication Research and Education Association.
How to present a communication?
To submit a presentation proposal, authors must:
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Send an email to litfilmtourism@gmail.com with the following details:
a. An anonymised abstract of the presentation following the template available here
b. List of authors with their affiliation
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The author presenting the paper at the conference must register using the following form.
The abstract can be written in any conference language: English, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan.
Presentation: 15 minutes.
The deadline for submission of paper proposals is the 8th of October 2023. Anonymous peers will review all proposals, and the author will be notified of acceptance after the 31st of October 2023.
Publishing opportunities
The Congress has collaboration agreements with various academic journals.
Authors are invited to submit full manuscripts (max. 10,000 words) to litfilmtourism@gmail.com for consideration by the Organising Committee. The deadline for submission of papers is 20 December 2023.
Depending on each article's research area and relevance, authors might be invited to submit them to one of the following journals:
Conference fees
Advance registration (until November 10th):
- Authors: 100 euros
- attendants without presentation: 75 euros
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD students: 40 euros
Late registrations:
- Authors: 150 euros
- Attendants without presentation: 75 euros
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD students: 50 euros
The congress registration fee includes lunch on the 25th of January, coffee breaks during the congress, participation certificates, and congress documentation.
All authors participating in the congress must pay the corresponding fee.
The congress fee must be paid to the following bank account: ES1021003642192200099891, and the transfer receipt must be sent to: litfilmtourism@gmail.com.
Conference Venue
Management and Organizing Committee
Scientific Comittee
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