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”