February 2021 669 The winners of the seventh Creative Tourism Awards, created by the World Creative Tourism Network to reward projects and destinations around the world that are committed to tourism, have been announced. In the wake of new economies, creative tourism offers a sustainable model of tourism that meets the new demand of travellers in terms of authentic and creative experiences while generating a value chain on the territories and local communities. In order to foster the good practices of creative tourism, these awards foster authenticity, innovation and sustanability. The international jury of the Creative Tourism Awards, composed of international experts in tourism marketing and creative economy, assumed the heavy task of selecting the winners among a total of 184 applicants from 37 countries. The main criteria were the use of creativity to design unique experiences and to create an ecosystem at a local scape.
NEH grant to support digital archive of Black choreographers work
Professor Mason has been working for a number of years to archive the work of Black choreographers.
AUSTIN, TX
.- In December, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded just under $100,000 for a project spearheaded by University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor of Dance Gesel Mason to support her ongoing project to archive the work of Black choreographers.
Mason and co-project director Rebecca Salzer, associate professor of dance and director of the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative at the University of Alabama, received an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for their project Prototyping an Extensible Framework for Access to Dance Knowledge.