Events
Governments increasingly use events as economic development tools. Events are used to brand destinations, increase international market presence and stimulate economic activity and investment. The Events: management, planning and policy research theme is strategically aligned to the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management’s Events and Convention Management degree program offered at Tweed Heads. This research theme not only improves the teaching-research nexus, but the group is actively engaged in promoting opportunities for honours and RHD research.There is also a highly active events and conventions industry on the Gold Coast, and the CTLW events research group seeks strategic alignment between the events and conventions sector and government and non-government organisations (e.g. local tourism associations, chambers of commerce, community groups, etc.) with an interest in events.
Interrelationships with other research themes
There are strong crossovers and interrelationships between events research and many of the other research themes within the CTLW including regional tourism and leisure, sport and recreation, communities, organisational research, education and training.
Event policy research
A strong focus of the CTLW is on evaluating the policy environment in which events take place, and the evaluation of governance arrangements that characterise the planning and management of events. There are two broad themes of research:
- at the macro scale, researchers are examining the role of events and their contributions to communities and regions
- at a local scale, researchers are examining the nature of planning and management of particular events with an interest in improving and streamlining the policy environment in which events take place.
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Latest News & Events
Call for abstract and submissions from Ph.D. candidates, DBA, and other HRD students
Ph.D. candidates, DBA, and HRD students are invited to submit abstracts about their research where they will be given the opportunity to present at the main conference.
Doctoral Workshop – Wednesday 5th of June 2013
Wednesday 5th of June 2013 from 1 pm to 4pm at the The Hotel School Sydney 117 Macquarie St. Sydney NSW 2000
Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict
Applications open to the Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict in Boston, USA between 16-22 June 2013.
A life devoted to Liberation
West Papuan Independence Leader, Benny Wenda, was a guest of CTLW during his recent visit to the Gold Coast.
The Starving Artists Research Project
Arts Northern Rivers have published an article by Ben Far-Wharton, CTLW project co-ordinator and PhD student.
Searching for regional resilience during austerity
The 2011-2012 State of the Regions report states that inequality between regions has been growing for the past five years and the evidence-to-date points to ....
Call for contributions
Workshop on 'The New Public Governance: the state of the art and new directions'
Institute of Public Policy and Economics at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 24-25 October 2013
