tourism – Tafter Journal

Culture and Tourism

The Booking Challenge: Tourism and the Sharing Economy

Today, the Internet plays a key role in the tourism sector. Contemporary travelers use the Web during all phases of traveling process: before the departure for inspiration, research, and booking; during the travel for local services and information; and after…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

How African cultural festivals are using innovative methods to attract new audiences, fund and host sustainable festivals

This paper will focus on trends within the management of African cultural festivals, particularly on aspects of attracting new audiences primarily through social media, new approaches to funding such as using crowd funding and original models of social and environmental…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Culture and development at a crossroads

The two articles featured in this issue of Tafter Journal by Mazuba Kapambwe and Johannis Tsoumas may inspire some further reflections on the difficult, ‘liquid’ relation between place, ideology and politics, which is so present in almost any debate on…