by Heather Skinner
Themes from the 4th Corfu Symposium on Managing & Marketing Places 24-27 April 2017
What constitutes an ‘authentic’ place? How do we define ‘authenticity’? What does this mean for the way we manage and market places? Some of these questions were raised in the following papers presented at the recent 4th Corfu Symposium on Managing & Marketing Places, 24-27 April 2017.
Gillian Rodríguez from the University of Central Lancashire, UK, was awarded the prize for Best Paper at the Symposium for her paper “The Local Consumers’ Gaze Interpreted as Regional Food Brand Essence”. Her research concerned creating effective regional food brands characterised by branding actions which do not have the food product details at their core.
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