Cultural tourism is becoming a larger industry in the US. According to the Travel Industry Association of America, 81% of 146.4 million U.S. travellers surveyed included cultural, arts or heritage activities at least once on their trips in 2004, creating a higher economic impact on the visited region than other tourists. A cultural tourist spends more money in average during their trip ($623 vs. $457) and travels longer (5.2 nights vs. 3.4 nights)...

Kazimierz Micha? Ujazdowski, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, is responsible for the national cultural policy. He spoke with WBJ about the Ministry's vision of financing institutional and independent theaters in Poland.

This article "Europe Needs to Strike Right Balance between Tourism Development and Heritage Conservation" is written by Mrs Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, the Secretary-General of Europa Nostra (http://www.europanostra.org), and presented in Europa Nostra News. Arts Management Network appreciates that he allows us to put this whole text on the homepage.

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The Europa Nostra Congress, held in Malta from 16th to 20th May 2006, having considered the issue of "Cultural Tourism : Its Encouragement and Control", subsequently endorsed the following Malta Declaration pledging Europa Nostra to encourage the practical realisation of its principles on a European-wide basis through the European Union Institutions and the Council of Europe mechanisms.

DEFINING:
Cultural Tourism as that form of domestic and international tourism whose object is, among other aims, the discovery and enjoyment of historic monuments and sites focusing on the built (immovable and movable) cultural heritage, including the cultural landscapes, of heritage travel destination areas, to experience places and activities that authentically represent the cultural history of the host communities.

We have to face the fact that many people don't think the arts offer them anything they value. It could be argued that people don't understand the value they could have from an artistic experience but the fact remains that unless people value something, the price is irrelevant.

Should price always get the blame? Or the problem is our price too high?

In late years of 20th Century, the term New Philanthropy is talked about broadly. One of the reasons is that new and various foundations were founded increasingly, and another result is because of the burgeoning economy. As the author Nina Kressner Cobb mentioned at this article, Foundations have been the fastest growing sector within philanthropy, with a growth rate consistently higher than that of the economy as a whole.

The online report is published by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Culture of Denmark. It focuses on some sectors: why culture is a new economy and fresh opportunity, the possibilities of a correlation creative between culture and business, how cultural industry in Denmark works and which fields are involved, and how culture relates to regional development.

Nowadays creative industries becomes more and more important components of knowledge-based economies because governments begin to recognise the contribution of it to economic growth.

This article includes the definations of cultural industries and creative industries, international studies and UNESCO's mandate, and national statistic and the development of mapping. It also explores that why and how statistical methodologies is so important for public officials to develop the cultural policy to support the creative industries.

Do you know what the strategy is about and why it is so important? Do you have any project structure of marketing process?

In this online paper which is published by Arts Marketing Association provides a review of the definitions, theories and concepts about strategy, marketing and planning. It also is a practical manual that has a set of worksheets for arts organizations. As Graeme Drummond and John Ensor (1999) said, Strategy is concerned with making major decisions affecting the long-term direction of the business.

In May 2006 the EU DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities has selected the MOBILE.HOME project of IETM, the Finnish Theatre Information Centre, Pearle*, Goethe-Institut (Brussels), Visiting Arts, www.on-the-move.org and associated partners and awarded them with the sum of 163.793,17 Euro for this mobility awareness raising project. The European Commission has named 2006 the European Year of Workers Mobility. The year aims to raise awareness and increase understanding of the benefits of both working abroad and in a new occupation.

This report is written by David Cowan, and it presents why business should invest in arts, what will influence the main decision-makers, and how arts and business work together.

The exhibition entitled Orde and Order was held by Cemeti Art Foundation (CAF) from May 5 until June 5, 2006 at Kedai Kebun Forum (KKF), Yogyakarta. It attempted to show data, archives, visual and audio visual material on ideological arena by the rulers (either the government or capital holders) in Indonesia, the relationship between artists and the rulers, the model of relation among artists, public, and the rulers entirely using art as the media. The media used and socialized could be very massive and whether we realized it or not had affected personal areas from each of us.

The creative industry impacts every aspect of the economy. Come to Philadelphia for the first Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit on June 12-14, 2006. Entrepreneurs, business leaders, artists, and technology professionals from for-profit and non-profit organizations from the many arts, media, and technology industries will join together to exchange ideas and help to create a framework for understanding how the Creative Economy contributes to the economic future of the world.

Brighton, United Kingdom, 29 and 30 June 2006.

Organised by the European Commission's EPOCH Network of Excellence and the University of Brighton Business School, Heritage Impact 2006 will bring together speakers from across Europe to consider the impact of heritage sites on society and the economy. The theme of the conference this year is understanding impact.

Marketing of arts is to try to motivate people attending activities. However, many arts organizations or artists just put their attentions on Audiences Purchasing Behavior. But if they do not build up their long-term relationship with audiences, how do they access the existing group?

Audiences are vital to any arts organization, but how to write an efficient marketing project to arrest the existing and new audiences attention in a limited budget? And do you know how to make sure that your plan is SMART?

20th September: Authors' Rights and the European Agenda 2007-2013

Prepared by the European Writers' Congress (in co-operation with the European Federation of Journalists and others) and hosted by the European Commission (in Brussels) under the patronage of the Finnish Presidency, this conference will explore the issues of competitiveness & digital challenges, collective action & cultural diversity.

The policy recommendations developed by a local task force in the framework of the Policies for Culture project "Visions of the cultural policy in the Kaliningrad region" have been recently approved by the local cultural community and adopted by the Ministry of Culture of the Kaliningrad Oblast as a basis to the overall governmental development plan for the region. These recommendations were presented and discussed in the framework of a seminar organized on March 30 - April 1, 2006 by the Ministry of Culture, aiming at discussing the priorities of the programme of "Development of culture in the Kaliningrad region up to 2016" to be adopted this year.