Reflections on the 4th Corfu Symposium

The 4th Corfu Symposium on Managing & Marketing Places took place 24-27 April 2017 at the Mayor Mon Repos Palace Art Hotel. The Institute of Place Management (IPM) now organises the Symposium, and has once again provided formal accreditation for the event. The Symposium focuses on both theory and practice, on both knowledge production and its impact, and this is unusual at academic events. The IPM’s links with the Journal of Place Management and Development (JPMD) with its focus on communicating with academics, practitioners, policy makers and local government, is also a driving factor behind the balance between academic and practitioner input into this event, and a special issue of the JPMD (Volume 10 Number 2) has been devoted to a selection of papers from our past events related to the Special Issue theme of Responsible Tourism and Place Making.

This year’s Symposium focused on the theme Place Making from Various Gazes. This enabled us to consider practitioner, policy, and academic papers in vibrant, positive, supportive, and, most importantly, impactful sessions that can make a real difference not only to the island of Corfu that is our host for these annual events, but also in other places where our delegates work and live.

The Symposium is a truly international event, and while we are keen to have impact on the island that is host to our event, the 2017 Symposium presented 3 keynote speeches from academics and practitioners from three different countries, and attracted almost 50 delegates presenting 35 papers representing 58 authors from 33 organisations in 21 countries. Our furthest delegates travelled from Australia, Thailand and China, we also attracted many delegates from Europe, but also delegates from Russia, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Morocco and Albania.

Read all the news and see the photographs from the 4th Corfu Symposium on Managing & Marketing Places 24-27 April 2017 in the full News Round Up.

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