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The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Leask, A. (2024, June). The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking. Paper presented at ATLAS Annual Conference 2024 Leisure & Tourism 2030: Navigating the Future, Breda, Netherlands

We will present initial findings from our research which considers how Edinburgh’s (UK) festivals and tourism sectors can deliver sustainable community engagement. Our study applies co-designed participative action research (PAR) (Goebel et al., 2020... Read More about The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking.

Public engagement in the Business School: What is public engagement and how can TBS researchers engage with their publics? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2023, December). Public engagement in the Business School: What is public engagement and how can TBS researchers engage with their publics?. Presented at Tourism & Languages Research Seminar, Edinburgh

This seminar and workshop will provide an overview of Public Engagement (PE) with research in the Business School. It will introduce the University’s Public Engagement Funding Competition (2023-2024); and provide an overview of the funding criteria a... Read More about Public engagement in the Business School: What is public engagement and how can TBS researchers engage with their publics?.

Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2023, June). Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods. Presented at Festival Sustainability Symposium: Facing the Sector's Headwinds, Edinburgh

I will present details of two interdisciplinary and collaborative research studies that used creative and participative methods within a public engagement methodology. Both aimed to gain an understanding of community stakeholders’ engagement with Edi... Read More about Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods.

With Tourists: The intersection of gazing with arts-based research, as artist, researcher, and viewer (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2022, June). With Tourists: The intersection of gazing with arts-based research, as artist, researcher, and viewer. Paper presented at Critical Tourism Studies IX: With in Dangerous Times, Mao, Menorca

My presentation extends the existing photographically framed understanding of the tourist gaze (Urry & Larsen, 2011) through arts-based research. There is much research devoted to the ocular nature of tourism as a set of visual practices, and consequ... Read More about With Tourists: The intersection of gazing with arts-based research, as artist, researcher, and viewer.

Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2022, June). Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

There is an extant of research devoted to the ocular nature of tourism as a set of visual practices, and accordingly, to the tourist gaze thesis (Urry & Larsen, 2011). Within this construct, it is suggested that tourists’ and others’ visual practices... Read More about Arts-based research and the intersected tourist gaze.

Online walking and mapping: understanding residents’ engagement with Edinburgh’s festival city spaces and places (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2022, May). Online walking and mapping: understanding residents’ engagement with Edinburgh’s festival city spaces and places. Paper presented at CHME 2022: The Human Touch in Hospitality, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

My paper presents an exploratory and collaborative public engagement with research study; and considers its potential to inform future festivals planning in Edinburgh as the festival city and a hospitable destination. My study involved a co-designed... Read More about Online walking and mapping: understanding residents’ engagement with Edinburgh’s festival city spaces and places.

Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography. Paper presented at The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future (Royal Anthropological Institute annual c

Today, travel and tourism are increasingly becoming strategies for taking and sharing photographs. This is evidenced through the exponential growth of digital social media platforms as means of recording and displaying tourism settings and experience... Read More about Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography.

Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2020, September). Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism. Paper presented at ATLAS annual conference 2020: Tourism as a driver of regio

This paper presents emerging themes from our study of the semiotics that sustain the visual culture, consumption and place myth of Edinburgh, as the ‘world’s leading festival city’ (Festivals Edinburgh, 2020). Today Edinburgh hosts eleven internation... Read More about Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium spo

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders.

City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2019, April). City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze. Paper presented at Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Edinburgh Napier University

Increasingly, travel and tourism practices have become a strategy for taking and sharing photographs. This is particularly apparent through the exponential growth of digital social media platforms as means of recording and displaying tourism settings... Read More about City sites and sights: using artists’ approaches in subverting the tourist gaze.

'Edinburgh the ‘festival city’ and hallmark event tourism': invited research lecture and seminar (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2018, October). 'Edinburgh the ‘festival city’ and hallmark event tourism': invited research lecture and seminar. Presented at Leisure Talks' series, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester

The ‘festival city’ has become a topic of theoretical debate within tourism and events research. In strategic destination management practice a festival city presents a significant and sustained portfolio of planned festivals and events as a means of... Read More about 'Edinburgh the ‘festival city’ and hallmark event tourism': invited research lecture and seminar.

Visualising the ‘festival city’: towards a stakeholder semiotic framework (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2018, August). Visualising the ‘festival city’: towards a stakeholder semiotic framework. Paper presented at Inclusive Innovation for Enhanced Local Experience, British Council and Newton Fund ‘Researcher Links’, Phuket Graceland Resort

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Tourist Art and Commodification (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2018, June). Tourist Art and Commodification. Presented at Art, Materiality and Representation 2018, London

Short abstract The visual consumption and depiction of material and experiential phenomena have become increasingly pertinent in contemporary tourism contexts. This panel explores the gazing upon and commodification of tourism experiences through to... Read More about Tourist Art and Commodification.

Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Furger, T. (2018, May). Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle. Paper presented at Royal Anthropological Institute’s (RAI) Annual Conference: Art, Materiality and Representation, the Royal Anthropological Institute, The Department

Short abstract We will present initial themes from my study into the semiotics of Edinburgh Castle through analysing shared online images. As a semiotic sign, Edinburgh Castle is an iconic tourist sight, a backdrop to the ‘festival city’, and the mo... Read More about Meanings and myths: Semiotics of Edinburgh Castle.

Materiality, memories and lived event tourism experiences (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., Leask, A., & Ensor, J. (2017, June). Materiality, memories and lived event tourism experiences. Presented at Critical Tourism Studies: Understand Tourism- Change Tourism, Understand Ourselves - Change Ourselves

Our paper furthers understanding of lived experiences in tourism settings as remembered by informants. We propose the value of a phenomenological ‘artefact elicitation’ method in revealing rich insights into informants’ recollections of their lived t... Read More about Materiality, memories and lived event tourism experiences.

Imaging Edinburgh as the ‘festival city’ (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2017, June). Imaging Edinburgh as the ‘festival city’. Presented at Critical Tourism Studies: Understand Tourism- Change Tourism, Understand Ourselves - Change Ourselves

We will present initial findings and emerging themes from our study into the imaging of a ‘festival city’, as it is represented and elicited by city stakeholders through shared online images. Our research aims to develop an understanding of how Edinb... Read More about Imaging Edinburgh as the ‘festival city’.