UK software developer Kent House has announced that its award winning online event management software EventManagerTM now offers conference and event organisers the facility to issue and manage invitations (RSVP feature). Invitation management enables organisers to take control of the promotion of their event. Organisers can send event invitations to previous attendees or delegates already in the system, and add or import new contacts. Records of invitations sent and statistics on the status of reply enable the user to track their attendees and chase invitations if necessary. It is simple and easy to create invitations. These can include ‘add to calendar’ options in Google Calendar and Lotus Notes. Additional information on the event and access to presentations or event documents can be added. The invitation tracking screen shows users a list of invites sent and gives the options to chase invites. It is clear to see which invitees have made bookings and which have not yet indicated the attendance status. The clever tool also enables you to categorise delegates so you are always in the know as to who is attending and the role they have at your event. EventManagerTM has, over the last seven years, helped manage more than 2 million bookings across tens of thousands of events. It is the most widely used online registration and event management software within the UK National Health Service (NHS), as well as being used by commercial companies and the not-for-profit sector. Announcing the latest development, Kevin Holdridge (Kent House Managing Director) said “I’m very pleased with this latest feature addition. We know that EventManagerTM is the most cost-effective online event management software on the market, and that our customers find it simple to use but powerful. RSVP is one of several carefully chosen new features that we will be introducing this summer in order to retain our edge over competing products and to keep our customers delighted.” Kent House Address: The Innovation Centre, Keele University Science Park, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5NB UK www.kenthouse.com Telephone: 0845 638 0700 Email: mail@kenthouse.com

Interactive * Full Of Examples * Practical Activities * Events Theory * Discussions * Group & Individual Tasks

2010 Dates:
15 November 2010, London
17 November 2010, Glasgow
Time: 9am – 4.30pm
Venue: Hilton Kensington, Kensington, London and Hilton Glasgow University, Scotland
Organiser: Future Horizons
Website: http://www.futurehorizons.com/page/62/Events-Management-Workshop
Business Sector: All industries
Target Audience: All Event and Marketing professionals, PA’s, Office Managers, Administrators, Facilities Management staff, Human Resources, Hotel and Conferencing staff, Business Development Staff , Fundraisers, Sales Staff, Sports Development , Venue Owners, Wedding Planners
Cost: £300 + vat per person

This workshop will make people remember your event for all the right reasons. A fully packed, interactive one day workshop designed to give anyone tasked with organising an event, big or small, the A-Z of how to organise a successful, dynamic event. Specially devised tasks and activities will allow delegates to develop a clear understanding of the role and the importance of
events in the overall marketing mix. Lead by an experienced events manager, you will take part in many single and group exercises that will stretch your imagination, increase your understanding of events management, hone existing skills and give greater insight as to what makes a great event.
You will gain confidence in your ability as an events manager, understand how to deal with problems and obtain an enthusiasm for excellence.

Further information visit: http://www.futurehorizons.com/page/62/Events-Management-Workshop

This is an international conference that will be held April 14-16 in Innsbruck, Austria. It is presented by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University and the Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck.

Abstracts are due no later than October 29, 2010.

Please see the website for more details: http://www.tourism-culture.com/conferences_and_events.html or contact Daniela Carl at d.carl@leedsmet.ac.uk.

This international conference is taking place December 3-5 2010 in Leeds, United Kingdom. It is presented by the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication in association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Abstracts are due no later than June 1, 2010. For further information, please see the website: http://www.tourism-culture.com/conferences_and_events.html or email Daniela Carl at d.carl@leedsmet.ac.uk.

This international conference is taking place September 11-12 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is co-organized by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University and the International Festivals and Events Association. Please see the website: http://www.tourism-culture.com/conferences_and_events.html or email Daniela Carl at d.carl@leedsmet.ac.uk for further details.

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers


Researching Coastal and Resort Destination Management: Cultures and Histories of Tourism

19th – 20th October 2009
Girona, Catalonia, Spain


2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of the formal designation of the Costa Brava, a title and destination region that has become synonomous with the emergence and growth of ‘mass’ tourism over the past century. The region today faces many challenges including maintaining tourist markets against competing destinations alongside environmental concerns.

This conference is therefore extremely timely in its aim of bringing together researchers who share interests in coastal and resort destination policy, planning and management in relation to culture(s) and histories of tourism.

These research areas are also clearly relevant to professionals and policy makers in destination management and the conference will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to share leading edge ideas, innovations and critical thinking with the professional destination manager participants at the European Union of Tourist Officers (EUTO) Study Visit to Catalunya which coincides with the conference. There will also be opportunities for delegates to participate in parts of the EUTO programme.

Conference Themes
The conference welcomes proposals for papers that address the development of tourism in coastal regions and resorts. Proposals might, for example address:

• Creative uses of cultural, historical and heritage resources for tourism in coastal settings

• Cultural events and festivals as animators of coastal resorts

• Transnational approaches to and conceptions of destination policy and planning in coastal contexts

• Community participation in coastal resort development

• Building sustainable partnerships and stakeholder relationships between tourism, culture and heritage in coastal destinations

• Competitive (dis)advantage, new tourist markets and coastal destinations

• New and emerging technologies in coastal destination representation and marketing

• Coastal destination image and branding


The conference organisers also welcome proposals for papers that address theoretical and applied issues and themes relating to destination management in the coastal contexts of Catalonia and the Costa Brava in particular: Such themes include:

• Tourism and Catalan identity - tensions between the standard international offer and the marketing of the 'local' and regional or 'nation without a state'

• Representing the Costa Brava: changing images over time, and the creation, marketing and modification of a 'brand'

• Tourism and the Catalan language - problem or asset?

• The labour force in Catalan tourism: Catalans and 'others'
• Tourist markets to Catalunya and the (formal and informal) organisation of private and public space: e.g. hotels, beaches, squares

• Issues surrounding second home ownership, property markets and ‘new’ resident communities in the Costa Brava


If you wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic file to Dr. Philip Long p.e.long@leedsmet.ac.uk

The deadline for the reception of abstracts is 31st of July 2009.

Please find regularly updated information regarding this conference, registration procedures and (at a later stage) a full programme at
http://www.udg.edu/jornades/EUTO2009/tabid/12969/Default.aspx
or email to euto2009@udg.edu


Conference Organisers

This conference is jointly organised by:

Departament d'Organització d'Empreses, Facultat de Turisme
Universitat de Girona, Catalunya
http://www.udg.edu/Default.aspx?alias=www.udg.edu/ft


Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
http://www.tourism-culture.com/

Oficina de Turisme, Roses, Catalunya
www.roses.cat

European Union of Tourist Officers
http://www.euto.org/

The MSc International Event Management is a new programme which has been developed in recognition of the increasingly vital role of the events industry to tourism development and the resultant need to improve the professionalism of this key industry. This programme benefits from the over 40 years of teaching and research expertise of staff in the School of Management which is a leading provider of internationally recognised postgraduate degrees in the specialist fields of hospitality, tourism, food, retail and health care management. This postgraduate degree in international event management therefore provides a fitting complement to the School’s existing suite of management programmes. In addition, the School of Management is well placed to extend its portfolio to include international event management due to its geographical location in the historic city of Guildford, just a 35 minute train journey away from London which is host to a number of major national and international events and festivals. Through living and studying in commuting distance from one of the most exciting international cities, students pursuing this programme will have the unique opportunity of benefitting from the world-class experience of the wider business community and will be able to have practical experience of the many events and festivals that regularly take place. For more information on this programme please go to http://www.som.surrey.ac.uk/catalogue/programmeinfo.asp?progcatid=57&progstructid=237

International Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

Resorting to the Coast:
Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside


25—29 June 2009
Blackpool, United Kingdom



organised by
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
&
Institute of Northern Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

www.tourism-culture.com


Globally, coastlines are arguably the most important sites for tourist activity and tourism development. The various combinations of sea and shore have become highly popular and successful attractions, and a majority of the world’s leisure tourists cling to these liminal spaces at the margins of the land. The lure of the ‘seaside’, the beach, and the resorts which have evolved to service and entertain tourists, is immensely powerful, reflecting a long standing but ever-changing relationship between humans and the oceans. The dominance of coastal tourism within the modern period has generated a wealth of issues which this conference seeks to address, including: The patterns and trends in how tourists mobilise the resources of sea, sand and shore; Ways in which coastal communities have adapted to tourism; Environmental degradation and regeneration of coastal regions and marine ecologies; The historical forms, structures and aesthetics of ‘seaside’ resorts; Regeneration of ‘historic’ resorts; Continuing multi-national development of ‘pristine’ coastlines; Inclusivities and exclusivities in coastal resorts; Changing beach and seaside holiday ‘traditions’.

In addressing such issues this major international and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to promote dialogue across disciplinary boundaries on a global stage. We therefore welcome papers from: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design history, cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, landscape studies, linguistics, museum studies, political science, sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning. The event will seek to draw upon ideas, cases and best practice from international scholars and help develop new understandings of the relationships between tourism and the coast. It will also provide a major networking opportunity for international scholars, policy makers and professionals.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Key themes of interest to the conference include:

• Histories of coastal tourism developments and resorts;
• Regeneration of coastal economies;
• Social and environmental impacts of coastal developments;
• Representations of seaside holidays in popular culture;
• Worker migrations to coastal sites;
• Beach behaviours and traditions;
• Myths of the sea and coastal communities;
• Coastal resort art and architecture;
• Tourist coastal colonies.

Please submit a 300 word abstract including title and full contact details as an electronic file to the conference manager Daniela Carl (ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk). You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than 2nd February 2009.


CONTACT
For further details on the conference please visit: www.tourism-culture.com or contact us at:

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Arts and Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
Old School Board, Calverley Street
Leeds LS1 3ED, United Kingdom.
Tel. +44 (0) 113 2838541 or Fax +44 (0) 113 2838544

Cultural Tourism is one of the most important and rapidly expanding economic and social phenomena of the contemporary world. The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University is a global leader in research and education regarding tourism and its relationships to culture(s).

The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change has developed an important and innovative Master’s qualification in Cultural Tourism which will allow you to take an informed position in contemporary theoretical debates and applied policy programmes focusing on tourism and its relationships with culture in its many forms and expressions. The course is designed to equip you with the knowledge, ideas, and awareness of contemporary policy contexts, together with the research skills and relevant practical applications relating to cultural tourism.

Through course modules you will be able to study: The structures and dynamics of international tourism; the social practices and performances of tourists; international tourism policy; the relationships between tourism and concepts of modernity, globalisation and colonialism; tangible and intangible heritage and their management; the role of museums and the ways by which cultures are represented; festivals and cultural events; culture and regeneration; tourism as a means of intercultural dialogue.

Through the Researching Cultural Tourism module, a choice of second semester options and, the opportunity to work on a ‘live’ case study relating to the cultural sector, you will be able to develop your own interests and skills. By undertaking your dissertation you will be equipped for future leadership roles in the diverse and dynamic field of cultural tourism and/or develop an opportunity to undertake a PhD at the prestigious Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.

For further information please go to www.tourism-culture.com or email to Dr Philip Long at culturaltourism@leedsmet.ac.uk.