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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

documents

cities
190

cities

evaluations
53

evaluations

bid books
182

bid books

1985–2031

title years covered

All shelvesEvaluations 53Monitoring and progress reports 1Bid books 182Selection and monitoring reports 111EU framework and official documents 27Strategies and action plans 5Research, guides and frameworks 33Shared by cities 1Sent in by members 59Published by cities 12
TypeBid book (pre-selection) 8Bid book (final selection) 10Ex-post evaluation 27Strategy 1Research 8Other 1 Any type
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.

10 documents of type strategy or research or other for “Tourism”

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Ask Encore: “Tourism”An answer from across the Archive, every claim cited to its document.

Found inside the documents

  • Cultural Development Plan „Cultural Vision 2030“ (English) (Bad Ischl 2024)
Bad Ischl · 2024

I want 48 Ebensee Cinema © Gerhard Mair CULTURAL TOURISM* dependent and can live a good life thanks to the income. The tourism debate in the Salzkammergut often revolves around arguments based on numbers: "Too many tourists," is the loud…

  • The Impact of Cultural Events on City Image (Rotterdam 2001)
    Rotterdam · 2001

    (1999) A model of destination image formation, Annals of Tourism Research, 26(4), pp. 868–897. BERG, L. VAN DEN, MEER, J. VAN DER and OTGAAR, A. (1999) The attractive city. Report R200-1, EURICUR, Rotterdam. BEVERS, T.

  • 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.

  • 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…

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

    TOURISMUS ZWISCHEN GELEBTER TRADITION UND KLISCHEE Das Salzkammergut wird seit dem 19. Jahrhundert bis heute durch klischeehafte bildliche Darstellungen als Kulisse der Tourismus- und Freizeitindustrie geprägt.

  • the_missing_pillar.pdf

    …(SDG 5: Gender equality and SDG 10: Reducing inequalities).88 Cultural heritage sites have also greatly contributed to the development of tourism and local livelihoods through the production and sale of locally produced goods and…

  • Leeuwarden 2018 — regional development
    Leeuwarden · 2018

    …further stress that Frysl^an does not aim at an international mass tour- ism market, but wants to target niches of cul- tural and nature-based tourism that suit the existing qualities (Provincie Frysl^an 2011, 2014b).

  • Also matching the title, city or themes

    Wrocław 2016 — Archipelagos of Culture

    Wrocław · 2016

    Palmer/Rae Associates — European Cities and Capitals of Culture 1995–2004, Part II (city reports)

    Cross-city (Palmer Report Pt II) · 2004

    European Cities of Culture. Oct 1994

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