Co-creation and Collaboration

Photograph: Ian Southerin – Location Photography

by Heather Skinner 

Themes from the 4th Corfu Symposium on Managing & Marketing Places 24-27 April 2017

Co-creation and Collaboration, between those responsible for managing and marketing places and a place’s stakeholders, and also between different places, also arose in many discussions at the recent 4th Corfu Symposium on Managing & Marketing Places, 24-27 April 2017.

The paper “Co-Constructing the Gaze: Existential Authenticity and Tourist Experience Co-Creation” presented by Maria Lichrou and co-authored with Lisa O’Malley and Maurice Patterson, all from the University of Limerick, also examined authenticity, but in relation to how authentic experience co-creation and engaging place marketing efforts could help capture diverse tourist roles and motivations. Continue reading “Co-creation and Collaboration”

The Institute of Place Management goes to Russia

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Prof Cathy Parker reports on the Institute of Place Management (Manchester Metropolitan University) visit to the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow and St Petersburg).

One of the main aims of the Institute of Place Management is to develop an international community of academics, practitioners and policy makers that are interested in making, maintaining and marketing better places.

In the spirit of international collaboration, Fellow of the Institute of Place Management, Professor Kirill Rozhkov invited Professors Dominic Medway and Cathy Parker, Directors of the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, to visit his institution, the Higher School of Economics, at both the St Petersburg and Moscow campuses. The main aim of the visit was to consider examples of place management practices from inside and outside Russia and examine the potential for mutual learning on both sides. The considerable political and economic changes cities and towns within the Russian Federation have experienced make it a rich source of insight into the principles and practices of place management and development.

In Moscow, Kirill had organised a Masterclass on Place Management Practices in Russia, with Russian experts presenting their experiences. This was a real insight into how cities, towns and districts are managed, developed and marketed, and was well attended by over 60 delegates. Continue reading “The Institute of Place Management goes to Russia”

Meet the IPM: Interview with Kirill Rozhkov

Kirill RozhkovKirill Rozhkov is a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management and Professor at the Faculty of Business and Management (Department of Company Marketing) at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. He has 15 years’ experience with conceptual and empirical research in the fields of place management and place marketing, and he teaches place marketing and branding to Master students and local representatives. In 2016 the HSE alumni selected him as Best Teacher. His recent research has addressed issues such as the theoretical model of place market analysis and how to identify product concepts of places. His paper “Places, Users, and Place Uses” has been selected by the editorial team of the Journal of Place Management and Development as a Highly Commended Paper in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. As an expert, Kirill supervises several projects aimed at developing marketing and branding strategies for municipalities. Continue reading “Meet the IPM: Interview with Kirill Rozhkov”