Ecosystems for literature and art tourism experiences - ELATE
Webinar February 24th, 2026, at 10 AM (Portugal time zone), Dr Charles Mansfield (UK)
CiTUR Algarve (Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, University of Algarve) are delighted to invite you to attend this free online webinar.
Dr Charles Mansfield is an independent academic who has been teaching at universities since 1995. He is a freelance researcher and writer. Charles completed a major, funded research project for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique with the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on digital heritage management. He was also a research academic at the University of Edinburgh from January 2005 to July 2009, where he completed an AHRC-funded research project to digitise medieval literary texts. He is the co-author of Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place Writing Methodologies, published with Routledge, Taylor & Francis. His PhD, published in 2015 as Researching Literary Tourism, proposes the concept of the toureme. In April 2026, his new edited textbook, Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism, will be available from Routledge.
Registration is free but mandatory here
Synopsis of the webinar
Charles Mansfield demonstrates how he integrates social media theory and literary theory to develop a model for cultural tourism. From his writer's residency in Millbay, Plymouth, which went on to win a creative commission from Exeter's UNESCO City of Literature, he embarked on a project in literary tourism and slow tourism for the French seaside town of Ouistreham in Normandy. This talk presents the technical and practical details of this work as a model for future developers, academics and travel writers. He will make available the dialogue journaling templates he has recently refined in MS OneNote and Google Docs.
The CiTUR is an R&D unit of the national higher education polytechnic subsystem in Portugal that brings together 17 institutions (universities and polytechnics) and involves more than 200 researchers. It conducts multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary applied research as well as producing and sharing scientific knowledge in tourism.
It aims to be a leader in applied research, development and innovation and to be recognised by civil society and business for its superior ability to generate and share knowledge in tourism.
Universidade do Algarve – Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo
Campus da Penha
8005-139 Faro – Portugal
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