Under the leadership of Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann, the Tourism, Arts, Parks, Entertainment and Sports Committee, discussed how to better position tourism and arts issues before the presidential candidates. The mayors strategize on ways to get these issues before the candidates and on the agenda of the new President.

Suddenly cities are all the rage. After several decades of preoccupation with globalization and free trade, attention is shifting to cities as the new spawning grounds for innovative, dynamic and creative activity.

This study is based on previous research on Quality, Satisfaction, Willingness-to-Pay and Spending behaviour, in tourism and particularly in the area of festival management. A web and telephone survey on 326 festival visitors was conducted at Storsjöyran Music Festival 2005 in Östersund, Sweden to give the base for new findings concerning visitors perception of their festival experience including their spending behaviour.

Utilising the information gathered in four European cities, this paper discusses and tests a framework of reference for visitor friendliness, a complex concept that encapsulates the main dimensions of the urban tourism product such as its quality, accessibility and image projection. This concept is particularly relevant to assess whether investments in culture and hospitality genuinely respond to the impulses coming from the market. The case studies highlight how specic soft elements of the urban tourism product are the ones that matter most in determining the attractiveness of a city for international visitors, and yet they are often overlooked by city planners. The paper also identies a number of best practice in tourism management. r 2002 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.

As Beijing, Vancouver and London prepare to host future Olympic Games, it seems fitting to remind readers of the Arts Management Newsletter of the value of cultural programs within the Olympic Movement and the connection between artists and athletes. That value, and the corresponding cultural development surrounding the successful hosting of the Olympic Games, has deep roots within the Olympic Movement thanks to the vision of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. de Coubertin was a cultural administrator.

Tourism has been one of the most remarkable economic phenomena of the last few decades. In 2004, Canadians made over 175 million person-visits within Canada, spending more than $37 billion along the way. Studies show that between 1.1 million and 2.7 million potential Canadian tourists are passionate for visual arts and handicrafts, performance arts, heritage, museums, and festivals ...

Trolley Song. Beginning this summer, tourists will find it easier and cheaper to visit some of Chicago's cultural attractions thanks to a $600,000 federal grant that will pay for a new free trolley shuttle, running three different routes. For the next two years, the shuttle will operate from the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, through Labor Day, as well as the two weeks of Christmas, the Thanksgiving weekend and the two weeks of spring break. It connects stations serving the suburbs with such cultural institutions as the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum, the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Chicago Historical Society, and Navy Pier, the home of the Chicago Shakespeare Festival.

The EXPO 2005 with the main theme Theme "NATURE'S WISDOM" is a guest for 185 days at Aichi, Japan. During this time from March 25 until September 25 is planned a voluminous program with Entertainment like National Days, Massage Events and Association Programs. In order to promote wide-ranging participation from around the world and to develop the theme of the Exhibition, the main theme will be divided into several sub-themes...

BalkanKult and association Progetto Musica are jointly working on developing cultural tourism between the two regions. This project includes networking 77 cities from both regions...

In an effort to give downtown Baton Rouge it's own distinctive character, city planners are creating a downtown entertainment district to encourage arts, culture and entertainment development. "Among the options for creating a district are tax incentives, rebates on building permits, zoning restrictions and extending the legal hours of operation for venues that serve alcohol."

The tourism and hospitality industry is the largest in the world in terms of income and employees. Competition is fierce among countries and cultural institutions. The "Mediterranean Conference on Cultural Tourism, Cultural site, Hospitality and Museum Marketing and Strategy Planning" will apply marketing principles and tools to raise the visibility of tourism, using, as case study, Catania and Sicily to demonstrate the value proposition that tourists to Sicily (or any other Mediterranean region) will enjoy that will not be available in other tourist locations. A second part of the conference will focus on cultural institutions such as museums, which often are attractions and destinations that lead tourists to select one place over others. Marketing and strategic planning at museums will indicate ways museums can attract the types of audiences they desire and provide exceptional experiences to their visitors. Building audiences, creating a community of stakeholders, and increasing revenue at cultural institutions will be highlighted in the discussion.
Chairman of the conference is Dr. Neil Kotler, co-Author of the book "Museum Strategy and Marketing".

Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Media Culture and Tourism assesses the cultural places and cultural heritage institutions of national importance in German the 'Leuchttürme and Gedächtnisorte.
The interconnections between culture and tourism have been a recent focus of cultural policy in Europe at the level of the European Union as well as countries, regions and cities. "Culture and Tourism in the New German Länder" fills a further gap in cultural policy research and practice.

The study was undertaken by Dr. Cornelia Dümcke, an expert in cultural economics (Culture Concepts Berlin, www.cultureconcepts.de ) and deals with the connections between culture and tourism from a politico-cultural perspective.

TRANSFER - eine Publikation mit 60 Theaterstücken in 29 Sprachen. Das deutsche Kinder- und Jugendtheater ist im Ausland gefragt!

An article by Prof. Peter Bendixen, published in: The International Journal of Cultural Policy. Vol. 4 No. 1/1997, pp. 21 - 46

Cultural tourism as a type of organized touring to visit sites of cultural heritage, to take part in a cultural event or an artistic performance is booming. A tour may be a short trip to take part in a performance, for instance a weekend in Edinburgh or Salzburg at the festivals.