CONFERENCE: The Department of Tourism Management at Shih Chien University, Taiwan, is pleased to announce Cultural Tourism, Tourist Culture: In-Depth Travel Conference to be held at Kaoshiung Campus, 23-25 May 2003. The conference seeks to cultivate an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholars, private/public sectors, and policy-makers interested in all facets of cultural tourism and tourist culture. With radical socio-economic changes in Taiwan, issues of culture and tourism have shifted from cultural diplomacy to cultural tourism - a rising field with the potential to rescue the current downswing of the national economy and the bleakness of cultural industry in this country. Although packaging and consuming cultural tourism have provoked controversies, statistics continue to inform authorities about a global market that appears to open up new opportunities for revitalizing economic growth and sharing the cultural heritage, in terms of jobs, income and self-pride. To advance sustainable tourism and in-depth travel, Shih Chien University recognizes an urgent need to facilitate and, if possible, to integrate cross-disciplinary exchanges among researchers, tourist sectors and community organizers, as well as administrators associated with a wide range of fields including museum exhibitions, performance and festivals, heritage conservation, folk fairs, tourist production, local historiography, hostel service, and theme-park management, etc.

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CONFERENCE UPDATE: "Tourism & Photography: Still Visions -- Changing Lives" -- Sheffield, UK, 20-23 July 2003. "Only one month left to our annual research conference on 'Tourism and Photography'! Please find a draft programme and additional information including a registration form at our website. 'Tourism & Photography' is organised by the Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change (CTCC) at Sheffield Hallam University on 20-23 July 2003. Its aim is to critically discuss photography as an element of the tourism experience and as a force capable to changing the identity of peoples and images of place. It will be the first time that a major international research conference focuses on the interrelationship of tourism and photography. We are currently expecting around 140 international academics and art & cultural practitioners to join the conference. Around 90 papers organised in no more than three parallel sessions will draw upon a number of disciplines including: anthropology, photography, art history, tourism, cultural geography, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, political sciences and marketing. The event will also be open to photographers, travel writers, research students and representatives of the regional arts und cultural sectors interested in the tourism-photography debate. Photographer Martin Parr will be one of our keynote speakers. Martin has published different works on tourism and the tourist (e.g. "Small Worlds") and is associated with Magnum Photos. He has also been the curator of the John Hinde Butlin's Postcard Exhibition recently held at the Photographer's Gallery in London. For further information, please contact David Picard or visit us."

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