1. THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN CULTURAL
REGENERATION
A case study of Folkestone
2. MAIN LITERATURE
Richards, G. (2011) “Creativity and Tourism. The State of the
Art.”
Tourism Creativity
Creativity provides activity, content and atmosphere for tourism, and tourism in
return supports creative activities.
Creative tourism as a development of cultural tourism.
Not a niche, more of a series of creative practices linking production, place and
consumption
Kennell, J. (2011)
Kennell, J. (2013). “Cultural tourism and
“Rediscovering cultural
urban regeneration in Europe”
tourism: Cultural
regeneration in seaside Cultural regeneration
towns”
Contemporary approaches Demand-
to seaside regeneration Cultural Tourism
side
(Margate as an example)
Creation of a cultural Supply- Public Private Cultural
side Sector Sector Production
regeneration that avoids
the negative social impacts.
3. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Identify the place of Identify ways of
creativity in cultural incorporating creativity
regeneration. in cultural regeneration.
Critically analyse the
current policies on
cultural regeneration.
4. SINGLE CASE EMBEDDED STUDY
FOLKESTONE
Public • Policy Documents Critique
C Sector • Interviews with KCC & SDC
R
E Private • Interviews with local
A Sector businesses
T
I
Cultural • Focus groups with local
V independent artists
Production
I
T
• Surveys during the summer
Y Tourists periods
5. TIMETABLE
May June July Aug Sept
Activity
Literature Review 1st ½ 2nd ½
Policy documents critique 1st ½
Interview KCC and SDC informants 2nd ½
Private Sector interviews 1st ½
Focus Group 2nd ½
Surveys with tourists 1st ½
Analysis of data/Writing up
Draft/Editing
7. REFERENCES
Kennell, J. (2011) “Rediscovering cultural
tourism: Cultural regeneration in seaside towns”
Journal of Town & City Management 1 (4), pp.
1-17
Kennell, J. (2013). “Cultural tourism and urban
regeneration in Europe” in Smith, M. &
Richards, G. The Routledge Handbook of
Cultural Tourism, London:Routledge
Richards, G. (2011) “Creativity and Tourism. The
State of the Art.” Annals of Tourism Research.
38 (4), pp. 1225-1253