26/01/2026
CiTUR Algarve (Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, University of Algarve) is delighted to announce that on February 24th, 2026, at 10 PM (Portugal time zone), Charles Mansfield (UK) will chair a webinar entitled "Ecosystems for literature & art tourism experiences".
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, in collaboration 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, during which he completed an AHRC-funded 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.
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.
Registration is free but mandatory here.
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