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Forty years of European Capitals of Culture in their own words: what cities promised, what they did, and what the evaluations found.

documents: 472
cities: 190
evaluations: 53
bid books: 182; 1985–2031

11 documents of type research or other for “Tourism”

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28 Degree programmes and disciplines such as design, music, architecture, arts and crafts, film and video and, for this analysis, associated tourism make up smaller proportions, yet these disciplines help to make the range of education…

What the document types mean

Bid book (pre-selection): A city's first application for the title, judged by the selection panel to make the shortlist.; Evidence of intent: what a city promised, not what it delivered.
Bid book (final selection): A shortlisted city's full, final application for the title, with its programme, budget and plans.; Evidence of intent: what a city promised, not what it delivered.
Selection panel report: The EU expert panel's assessment of the bids in one competition, with its reasons and its recommendation.; Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Monitoring panel report: The EU expert panel's report on a designated city's preparations before its title year, with its advice.; Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Ex-post evaluation: An assessment, written after the title year or a programme, of what it actually achieved, usually by independent evaluators.; Evidence of outcome: what actually happened.
Monitoring or progress report: A city's own report on how its programme is going, written while it runs, with the figures it has tracked.; Evidence of outcome: what actually happened.
Strategy: A city's long-term plan or policy for culture, including legacy strategies and council decisions.; A plan: how a city meant to deliver and keep going.
Action plan: A concrete plan of what a city or organisation will do, by when and with what resources.; A plan: how a city meant to deliver and keep going.
Guide or toolkit: Practical how-to material that others can reuse: guides, toolkits, handbooks and templates.; Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Research: Studies, frameworks and papers across one or more cities, written by researchers rather than by a city.; Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.
Other: Anything else: news, memos, programme brochures and documents that fit no type above.; Context: useful background, not a city's own evidence of what happened.

City marketing (Sibiu 2007)

Sibiu · 2007

CITY MARKETING AND ITS IMPACT OVER URBAN TOURISM – SIBIU EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2007 - A SUCCESS STORY ELENA LIDIA ALEXA C T LINA LACHE Abstract In the past years tourism has become the fastest-growing economic sector, both in terms…

Grant Programmes in the Field of Culture (2026)

BrnoBrno · 2026

kultura.brno.cz

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL renewing a Union action for the European Capitals of Culture for the years 2034 to 2047 and repealing Decision No 445/2014/EU

Cluj-NapocaCluj-Napoca · 2026

…links between culture and other relevant sectors such as education, research, environment, urban development, sport and sustainable cultural tourism in line with the European Strategy for Sustainable Tourism, and use the ECoC as a catalyst…

How Will We Know If LOV2030 Makes a Real Difference?

Leuven

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How Will We Know If LOV2030 Makes a Real Difference?

LeuvenLeuven

These conversations brought together a broad range of partners, including the City of Leuven, KU Leuven, regional municipalities, tourism organisations, cultural policy actors and data partners.

A case study of Salamanca 2002

Salamanca · 2002

…behaviour that is focused on the substitution of escapism by enrichment; in other words, the decline of what we traditionally understood as ‘tourism of sun and beach’ in favour of a more segmented and demanding tourism in which aspects…

European Capitals of Culture: success strategies and long-term effects (Garcia and Cox, European Parliament, 2013)

2013

…discussed above, can be given depth by considering individual city case studies that all support the way that the ECoC leads to a growth in tourism numbers during the year itself – see Box 2 below.

European Cities of Culture. Oct 1994

Cross-city (Network of Cultural Cities of Europe) · 1994

…a falling domestic market, the Year identified culturally motivatod tourism as the expanding sector, accounting in 1990 tor 57 per csnt of holidayA/FR market {the equivalent foreign market figure was 76 per cent).

Programme Book of the Cultural Programme (2024, Bilingual) (Bad Ischl 2024)

Bad Ischl · 2024

…302 Bodenschutz im Salzkammergut 303 Curating Space 306 Salzkammerqueer 308 WOHLSTAND (Afterparty) © Sophie Köchert BAUKULTUR AUSSTELLUNG TOURISMUS KLIMAWANDEL 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 1201 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05…

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