At the October 2022 Arnhem conference for writing lecturers it was time to meet the people behind PanOdyssey. This is a platform ideally positioned for literary travel writers. The CREA consortium have created a new digital space for the creation and diffusion of social and cultural content. The business model seems sound, too, where writers are paid by readers who value their work. CREA, the creative room alliance has nine founding partners across Europe, in France, Italy, Spain and further afield. More recently, new associates have signed up: Linea Edizioni in Padua, an independent Italian publisher, and EDRLab, an international, non-profit development laboratory, working on interoperable digital publishing. EDRLab head office is at 14 rue Alexandre Parodi, 75010 Paris.
Imagining Tourists and Tourism Conference - Paris 19-21 June 2024 Aims of the Conference The conference aims to explore the links between tourism and fiction, and more precisely to consider tourism and tourists as fictions. It is part of a series of conferences organized since 2011 by researchers from the Universities of Geneva, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Berkeley to explore the links between tourism and the imaginary. The first four meetings had evoked how tourism mobilized imaginaries specific to destination countries, their landscapes, their cultures and their inhabitants. The fifth conference will focus on the imaginary that applies to tourists themselves. Imaginary tourists We will examine how the various actors of tourism, as well as the places and practices of tourism, appear in works of fiction. Literature, cinema, theater, song, advertising, etc., stage tourist configurations, which are sometimes at the very heart of these fictions. Fictional tourists include those invented by the
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