Not only Music and City, but also relevant in this context:
The Department of History, Sociology and Criminology, in conjunction with the Tourism and Events Research Group at the University of Westminster, are seeking papers for a two-day symposium on tourism and the night.
Since the 1990s a number of cities have promoted nightlife as a central component of their tourism strategy and have adopted cultural and economic policies to brand their cities as desirable places for night-time activities. This two-day symposium will address the following questions:
- What impact does tourism at night have on local communities? What opportunities and/or tensions arise between tourists and residents?
- How might tourism at night open up new forms of sociability, community, urban design, events and leisure?
- What alternative forms of nocturnal tourism are emerging alongside traditional nightlife activities?
- What is the relationship between night-time tourism and processes such as gentrification?
- How might policy makers better manage and develop night-time tourism strategies?
- What types of policies have been adopted in order to reduce potentially negative impacts and empower different social actors of the ‘nocturnal tourism city’?
This is an interdisciplinary conference and we welcome papers from a wide range of disciplines.
Please send abstracts of 300 words to Adam Eldridge on a.c.eldridge@westminster.ac.uk before 13 April 2017.
There is a small number of travel bursaries available for PhD and recent graduates. If you wish to apply for a bursary, please state so in your abstract.
More information: Conference Website
