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Resources for Writers We are pleased to provided these resources for the Summer School of Good Stories: Literary, Film and Wine Tourism, organised by the University of Maribor, Faculty of Tourism in cooperation with 'The University of Zadar, Department of Applied Communication Studies, and held in Brežice, Slovenia. Please click button above to access the resources on Google Drive Blended Intensive Programme The Summer School is designed as a blended intensive programme (BIP) and focuses on storytelling as a key tool in contemporary tourism, with particular attention to literary, film and wine tourism. It brings together academic perspectives, practical workshops and field-based experiences, while encouraging international cooperation and co-creation. The physical part of the programme will take place at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Tourism in Brežice from 23 August to 29 August 2026. The virtual component will be held on 20th August and on 31 August 2026. Please click on ...

Ecosystems for literature and art tourism experiences - ELATE  Slides available - please click image to download from Google Drive Webinar February 24th, 2026, at 10 AM (Portugal time zone). CiTUR Algarve (Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, University of Algarve) are delighted to invite you to attend this free online webinar. Synopsis of the webinar The webinar demonstrates how the researcher 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 port 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. We make available the dialogue journaling templates recently refined in MS OneNote and Google Docs.  ...

Welcome to the WELL Document Template All the documents that have been posted to a WhatsApp group since you joined are stored on your own phone. You can access the documents by clicking on the icon for the Group, then scroll and select Media, links and docs. Then choose Docs from the next option to see the files. I created this template layout during the Ouistreham project so that group members could view documents with layout that fits their phone screens without sideways scrolling. I settled on making PDFs to keep all the fonts correct.  Your Document Library in WhatsApp On your phone, go to WhatsApp and open one of your groups. Then click on the icon for the group. Click on Media, links and docs. Then Select Docs.  ❦ Document Design for the WELL I’ve been experimenting with the layout for a WORD doc that will share well and display well on ‘phones from the WhatsApp library of Docs. This file is my design so far; it has small pages for the screen and narrow margins to save s...

Caen and Ouistreham Group in WhatsApp Community Have you tried setting-up a WhatsApp Community, yet? If you have been using WhatsApp with work colleagues or with friends for a while, then it is easy to do. A WhatsApp Community is a dialogue space to share an interest. The Community can grow and so you can divide it into Groups. In October 2024 we started a WhatsApp Community called French Travel and Books , and designed a logo of open books in the colours of the French flag: WhatsApp Group Soon, we realised it was a broad topic and so began to create Groups within the Community to share news and ideas for regions and cities. The aim began to form that it would be a space for collecting favourite holiday reading for visitors to these places. I am interested in Ouistreham and Caen because I completed fieldwork in November 2024, and the WhatsApp Group ran live alongside the travel and my stay in the port town.  Fieldwork in Ouistreham During my fieldwork in the town I was drawn to...