Making Space: Leisure, Tourism and Renewal
Annual Conference of the Leisure Studies Association hosted by the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
11-13 July 2006.
This conference asks how making space for leisure, sport and tourism can develop lasting environmental, social and economic benefits for individuals, communities and wider society through processes of regeneration and renewal.
Themes:
Environmental sustainability and the place of leisure and tourism
Social and cultural spaces of leisure and tourism
Economic rgeneration through leisure and tourism
Academic renewal in leisure and toutrism studies
Keynote Speakers:
Tricia Barnett, Director of Tourism Concern
Julia Thrift, Director of CabeSpace
Professor Gill Valentine, University of Leeds
Professor Chris Gratton, Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Heather Gibson, University of Florida
Professor John Tribe, University of Surrey
Dr Annette Pritchard, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
John McCarthy, University of Dundee
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