Call for applications: IX International Symposium Challenges in Handling and Management of Cities "Tourism as a factor of development"

The oldest tourist destination is the city, whose aim was at the beginning welcome travelers of religious pilgrimage.

Other activities of this type were identified with significant milestones and trade routes, which were the initial basis and created a hosting infrastructure and food -inns, guest houses, taverns- both populations, villas or destination cities, as in the different points along the route or at the crossroads of paths.
At present, when tourism development has reached a degree of maturity, the segment of cultural tourism and the more general framework, urban tourism or heritage tourism, taking big boom.

Culture is no longer a pleasure for a few and has become need of many, if ancillary to be essential; therefore, the "consumption of cultural goods" and cultural exchange is currently one of the most important elements of leisure. The rise of the cultural heritage and specifically, urban tourism are phenomena that characterize postmodern society.

Cities, on the other hand, are complex areas that function in many different variables: architectural, urban, cultural, environmental, economic, political, among others.

Tourist projection of a locality, both nationally and internationally, is the result of hard work and coordinated to which must be added all the services and institutions in the area, as the only approach "tourist city" involves a proposal unit and planned beyond any time event and wherein positioning a unit, strong and cohesive "brand image" to the potential market concept, structure the success of a project involving receptivity and successful tourist experience .

This mode is highly interesting for heritage and conservation, because through it the tourist feels the characteristics that identify a particular village, but also undertakes to maintain and keep in proper physical or intangible that substrate conditions, historical, architectural , urban, inter alia, that the tourist will enjoy.
Tourism, in its variant of cultural tourism, studied as socio-cultural phenomenon, evidenced by its interaction with the cultural heritage that underpins it. Moreover, the cultural heritage, social and economic projection requires cultural tourism as a means of promoting tourist destinations whose main attraction is identifying those cultural features of the place.

METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Presentation of keynote lectures by invitation.
Panel discussions in plenary.
Presentation of individual papers.
Case studies related to the central theme.
Exhibition and conference collateral.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Spanish and English

ABSTRACTS
The summary must be delivered or sent to the following email address simposiocamaguey@ohcc.co.cu  before October 30, 2014 for evaluation by the Scientific Committee and will be notified of their acceptance by 15 November of the same year.
The paper will be sent in extension before December 15, 2014 and shall specify whether it requires some technical means for submission, the only way that the organizers make commitments in this regard.

PRICE TO PARTICIPATE
Foreign participants ---------------------- 180 CUC *
Accompanying ----------------------------- 130 CUC *
Students ------------------------------------ 130 CUC *
National partners ------------------------- 180NM

* CUC. Cuban Convertible Pesos.

ORGANIZERS
Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey
simposiocamaguey@ohcc.co.cu
http://www.ohcamaguey.cu/