PUBLICATIONS FOR WALLED TOWNS RESEARCH

Congratulations, Peter van Roosmalen of  s'Hertogenbosch (den Bosch) on your election as President of Walled Towns Friendship Circle and on starting work with a co-ordination group.

Currently the main Walled Towns Friendship Circle website is being renewed and will soon be updated from the September 2009 data.
Please contact Huibert Cryns, Secretary General for further information.







(Peter seen here on cycle in Lucca)


Every publication listed below can be made available on request to david.bruce@uwe.ac.uk. Most have extensive references and bibliographies for further research
Recent and forthcoming main publications
1. 2010 (forthcoming) 'Baedeker: the perceived inventor of the formal guide book in the 19th Century' in a chapter in Giants of Tourism (Butler R and Russell R. Editors) CABI Wallingford, Oxford. NOTE: has a number of references to walled towns and identifies how old Baedeker Guides with their fine town maps can be used for comparative historical research on walled towns.
2. NEWLY PUBLISHED Nov 2009 DMB with Prof. G.J. Ashworth 'Walled towns, town walls and tourism: paradoxes and paradigms' Journal of Heritage Tourism 4:4 299-313
3. July 2009 DMB with Brezovec T. Tourism Development: Issues for Historic Walled Towns. Management 4:2 pp101-114
4. May 2009 DMB with Kropinova E. A New Russian Window to the West: the tourism of Kaliningrad Province, Case Study pp707-731 in Holloway J.C. The Business of Tourism (8th edition) FT/Prentice Hall
5. 2008 DMB with Brezovec T. Tourism Development and Management: Good Practice Guide for the Access and Regeneration of Cultural Heritage in Historic Walled Towns. ARCHWAY Partnership Chester City Council. http://www.archway-interreg.com/Archway-GPG-tourism.pdf
6. 2008 DMB with ARCHWAY partners, Good Practice Guides to Cultural Heritage Management, Local transport, Conservation and Spatial Planning in Historic Walled Towns, published by Chester City Council for INTEREG IIIc'. .www.archway-interreg.com/
7. 2007 DMB The Tourism of Heritage in Historic Towns Chapter 5 in Bruce D. and Rotariu I (Eds) op.cit infra
8. 2007 with Rotariu I (Eds) European Cultural Tourism, Past Present and Future: Lectures from the ATLAS Winter University Sibiu Romania January 2007, Alma Mater, Sibiu ISBN 978-973632-395-9
9. 2006 DMB with Creighton O. 'Contested Identities: the dissonant heritage of European Town Walls and Walled Towns' International Journal of Heritage Studies. (IJHS) 12:3 pp234 -254



10. 2004 DMB 'Piran: establishing a sustainable Gem City' case study pp446-454 in Holloway JC 'Marketing for Tourism' (4th Edition), Pearson



11. 2002 DMB 'Walled towns as gem cities' 11th WTFC Symposium 'Conclusiones' Elvas Camara, Elvas Portugal (Also in Portuguese)



12. 2001 DMB with Jackson M.J. and Serra Cantallops A PREPARe: a model to aid the development of policies for less unsustainable tourism in historic towns Tourism and Hospitality Research: the Surrey Quarterly Review 3.1 pp21-36















OTHER SELECTED CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (SINCE 2000)



2008 Braun and Hogenberg Cities 400 years on, A proposal and conference paper to XVIII International Symposium of Walled Towns Friendship Circle, Canterbury



2007 'Rethinking Destinations as 'co-tourism' ATLAS Annual Conference Viana do Castella, Portugal



2006 "Research pages": Research on Walled Towns at http://www.walledtowns.com/, WTFC Tenby (1997-2006) [Website SEE ALSO MIRROR ON THIS BLOG SITE BUT ORIGINAL IS BEST FOR LINKS]



2007,2002,2001,2000,1999, keynote papers on 'Town Walls, Walled Towns and tourists'; 'Tourism and Heritage', 'Towns , conflicting heritages and tourism' and 'European Tourism Policy', and each year leading a workshop on Urban Heritage Tourism at ATLAS Winter University Sibiu (Romania), Portoroz (Slovenia), Pecs (Hungary)), Viana do Castella (Portugal) and Kazimierz (Poland)



2006 Review of 'Tourism Destination Communities' by Singh, Timothy and Dowling (eds.) CABI Publishing 2002 in Journal of Heritage Tourism 1.1:76-77



2006 Walled towns or Enabling Cities ATLAS Annual Conference Lodz, Poland



2006 CO2 Impact of different tourisms .Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference



2005 'Living Walled Towns' at Oxford University Seminar



2005 Kaliningrad 'Lessons from Walled Towns' (delivered and published in Russian Translation by Dr Elena Kropinova)



2003 with Gournet M-A. Dissonant heritage in the tourist-historic region: a case from the Atlantic slave trade at 'Global Frameworks and Local Identities' ATLAS International Conference Eastbourne



2003 'The sound of cultural tourism' invited keynote at 13th International Symposium of Walled Towns Friendship Circle Waterford, Ireland



2003 'Transport impact of tourism in historic towns' Staff Seminar Split University, Split Croatia.



2002 Review of the 'Tourist-Historic City' by Ashworth and Tunbridge (2000) Tourism Analysis 2/3:281-282.



2001 Review of Cultural Tourism Richards (Ed.) 2000 in ATLAS Annual Review .1















EARLIER PUBLICATIONS (PRE-2000)



1. 1999 with Jackson M.J. Measuring Sustainability in Tourism - Lessons from a study of Chepstow for other European walled towns, in Foley M., McGillivray D., McPherson G. (Eds.), Leisure, Tourism and Environment: Sustainability and Environmental Policies, LSA Publication No.50 (Part 1), Brighton, 141-155.



2. 1998 Tourism, Heritage and Local Pride, in Swarbrooke J.(Ed) Heritage, Culture and Community, ATLAS, Tilburg, 3-20.



3. 1996 with Serra Cantallops A., The walled town of Alcúdia as a focus for an alternative tourism in Mallorca, in Briguglio L., Butler R., Harrison D. and Leal Filho W. (Eds.), Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Vol. II Case Studies, Pinter, London, 241-261.



4. 1995 with Holloway J.C. Of streetscape, "sense of place" and the tourist daze pp65-71 in Rowe J. (Ed) Streets Ahead: proceedings of an international conference University of West of England, Bristol



5. 1995 Sustainable tourism in Chepstow and Conwy, Context: The Journal of the Association of Conservation Officers No 46, June. 13-14.



6. 1994 Tourism in Walled Towns, Tourism Management 15 (3), 228-30



7. 1993 with Collins S., Laban, P. and Lloyd F. A Handbook of Good Practice for Sustainable Tourism in Walled Towns - Report to European Commission, Directorate General XXIII (Tourism) 92/C 51/16 (with appendices), Walled Towns Friendship Circle, Tenby.



8. 1993 Transport for Sustainable Tourism, Tourism, the Bulletin of the Tourism Society, 79 (July/Sept), 16-18



9. 1992 with Jackson, M.J. Monitoring and Evaluating a Tourism Development Programme: A Study of Chepstow, in Johnson, P. and Thomas, B. (Eds) Perspectives on Tourism Policy, Mansell, London, 105-121.

UPDATED Publications by David M Bruce, Academic Adviser to Walled Towns Friendship Circle

Congratulations, Peter van Roosmalen of 'sHertogenbosch (den Bosch) on your election as President of  Walled Towns Friendship Circle and on starting work with a co-ordination group.
Currently the main Walled Towns Friendship Circle  website is being renewed and will soon be updated from the September 2009 data.
Please contact Huibert Cryns, Secretary General for further information.

(Peter seen here on cycle in Lucca)




Every publication listed below can be made available on request to david.bruce@uwe.ac.uk. Most have extensive references and bibliographies for further research
Recent and forthcoming main publications
1. 2010 (forthcoming) 'Baedeker: the perceived inventor of the formal guide book in the 19th Century' in a chapter in Giants of Tourism (Butler R and Russell R. Editors) CABI Wallingford, Oxford. NOTE: has a number of references to walled towns and identifies how old Baedeker Guides with their fine town maps can be used for comparative historical research on walled towns.
2. NEWLY PUBLISHED Nov 2009 DMB with Prof. G.J. Ashworth 'Walled towns, town walls and tourism: paradoxes and paradigms' Journal of Heritage Tourism 4:4 299-313
3. July 2009 DMB with Brezovec T. Tourism Development: Issues for Historic Walled Towns. Management 4:2 pp101-114
4. May 2009 DMB with Kropinova E. A New Russian Window to the West: the tourism of Kaliningrad Province, Case Study pp707-731 in Holloway J.C. The Business of Tourism (8th edition) FT/Prentice Hall
5. 2008 DMB with Brezovec T. Tourism Development and Management: Good Practice Guide for the Access and Regeneration of Cultural Heritage in Historic Walled Towns. ARCHWAY Partnership Chester City Council. http://www.archway-interreg.com/Archway-GPG-tourism.pdf
6. 2008 DMB with ARCHWAY partners, Good Practice Guides to Cultural Heritage Management, Local transport, Conservation and Spatial Planning in Historic Walled Towns, published by Chester City Council for INTEREG IIIc'. .www.archway-interreg.com/
7. 2007 DMB The Tourism of Heritage in Historic Towns Chapter 5 in Bruce D. and Rotariu I (Eds) op.cit infra
8. 2007 with Rotariu I (Eds) European Cultural Tourism, Past Present and Future: Lectures from the ATLAS Winter University Sibiu Romania January 2007, Alma Mater, Sibiu ISBN 978-973632-395-9
9. 2006 DMB with Creighton O. 'Contested Identities: the dissonant heritage of European Town Walls and Walled Towns' International Journal of Heritage Studies. (IJHS) 12:3 pp234 -254
10. 2004 DMB 'Piran: establishing a sustainable Gem City' case study pp446-454 in Holloway JC 'Marketing for Tourism' (4th Edition), Pearson
11. 2002 DMB 'Walled towns as gem cities' 11th WTFC Symposium 'Conclusiones' Elvas Camara, Elvas Portugal (Also in Portuguese)
12. 2001 DMB with Jackson M.J. and Serra Cantallops A PREPARe: a model to aid the development of policies for less unsustainable tourism in historic towns Tourism and Hospitality Research: the Surrey Quarterly Review 3.1 pp21-36


OTHER SELECTED CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (SINCE 2000)
2008 Braun and Hogenberg Cities 400 years on, A proposal and conference paper to XVIII International Symposium of Walled Towns Friendship Circle, Canterbury
2007 'Rethinking Destinations as 'co-tourism' ATLAS Annual Conference Viana do Castella, Portugal
2006 "Research pages": Research on Walled Towns at http://www.walledtowns.com/, WTFC Tenby (1997-2006) [Website SEE ALSO MIRROR ON THIS BLOG SITE BUT ORIGINAL IS BEST FOR LINKS]
2007,2002,2001,2000,1999, keynote papers on 'Town Walls, Walled Towns and tourists'; 'Tourism and Heritage', 'Towns , conflicting heritages and tourism' and 'European Tourism Policy', and each year leading a workshop on Urban Heritage Tourism at ATLAS Winter University Sibiu (Romania), Portoroz (Slovenia), Pecs (Hungary)), Viana do Castella (Portugal) and Kazimierz (Poland)
2006 Review of 'Tourism Destination Communities' by Singh, Timothy and Dowling (eds.) CABI Publishing 2002 in Journal of Heritage Tourism 1.1:76-77
2006 Walled towns or Enabling Cities ATLAS Annual Conference Lodz, Poland
2006 CO2 Impact of different tourisms .Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference
2005 'Living Walled Towns' at Oxford University Seminar
2005 Kaliningrad 'Lessons from Walled Towns' (delivered and published in Russian Translation by Dr Elena Kropinova)
2003 with Gournet M-A. Dissonant heritage in the tourist-historic region: a case from the Atlantic slave trade at 'Global Frameworks and Local Identities' ATLAS International Conference Eastbourne
2003 'The sound of cultural tourism' invited keynote at 13th International Symposium of Walled Towns Friendship Circle Waterford, Ireland
2003 'Transport impact of tourism in historic towns' Staff Seminar Split University, Split Croatia.
2002 Review of the 'Tourist-Historic City' by Ashworth and Tunbridge (2000) Tourism Analysis 2/3:281-282.
2001 Review of Cultural Tourism Richards (Ed.) 2000 in ATLAS Annual Review .1


EARLIER PUBLICATIONS (PRE-2000)
1. 1999 with Jackson M.J. Measuring Sustainability in Tourism - Lessons from a study of Chepstow for other European walled towns, in Foley M., McGillivray D., McPherson G. (Eds.), Leisure, Tourism and Environment: Sustainability and Environmental Policies, LSA Publication No.50 (Part 1), Brighton, 141-155.
2. 1998 Tourism, Heritage and Local Pride, in Swarbrooke J.(Ed) Heritage, Culture and Community, ATLAS, Tilburg, 3-20.
3. 1996 with Serra Cantallops A., The walled town of Alcúdia as a focus for an alternative tourism in Mallorca, in Briguglio L., Butler R., Harrison D. and Leal Filho W. (Eds.), Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Vol. II Case Studies, Pinter, London, 241-261.
4. 1995 with Holloway J.C. Of streetscape, "sense of place" and the tourist daze pp65-71 in Rowe J. (Ed) Streets Ahead: proceedings of an international conference University of West of England, Bristol
5. 1995 Sustainable tourism in Chepstow and Conwy, Context: The Journal of the Association of Conservation Officers No 46, June. 13-14.
6. 1994 Tourism in Walled Towns, Tourism Management 15 (3), 228-30
7. 1993 with Collins S., Laban, P. and Lloyd F. A Handbook of Good Practice for Sustainable Tourism in Walled Towns - Report to European Commission, Directorate General XXIII (Tourism) 92/C 51/16 (with appendices), Walled Towns Friendship Circle, Tenby.
8. 1993 Transport for Sustainable Tourism, Tourism, the Bulletin of the Tourism Society, 79 (July/Sept), 16-18
9. 1992 with Jackson, M.J. Monitoring and Evaluating a Tourism Development Programme: A Study of Chepstow, in Johnson, P. and Thomas, B. (Eds) Perspectives on Tourism Policy, Mansell, London, 105-121.

WTFC Manifesto

Not elected but I leave my manifest on for the record: Manifesto and Open Correspondence
For other manifetsos goto http://www.walledtowns.com/wtfc/CVs.html:
31 July 2009 Manifesto and CV of DAVID BRUCE, Presidential Candidate for WTFC, International Walled Towns – for sharing good practice and friendship:


If you elect me, I shall work with every member town and represent every town; I shall also represent those visitors to your town, who appreciate the value of your heritage, value the wellbeing of your citizens and seek a sustainable future. I have been closely involved with WTFC since the inaugural symposium in Cardiff in 1991. Please ask me questions about this manifesto - my email is dnembruce@btinternet.com

The Business Plan (last updated 2004 for the years 2005-8) demonstrates gaps between expectation and reality. Due to the overwhelming volume of activity associated with the ARCHWAY project 2004-8, other aspects of WTFC’s work have been limited in recent years. A notable and worthy exception has been the Piran/Valletta schools initiative. Led by Chester, ARCHWAY absorbed almost the whole of the assigned working time of the Secretary General (Chester), of myself, as academic adviser (UWE, Bristol) and the WTFC efforts of the other eight partners. The cash cost to WTFC of £10,000 to support ARCHWAY was not matched by any grant-aid to WTFC but only to the partner members. ARCHWAY produced valuable reports on making walled towns more accessible to all and created the Technical Network which, ably led by ARABARRI, has great potential to generate bids and formulate advice. But ARCHWAY did show the risks of creating an ‘inner circle’ of towns.

With the strategic purpose of strengthening WTFC by developing its networking and, yes, friendship activities, my priorities will be to:

1. Act on the Constitutional imperative (Section 2.3) to appoint Trustees to oversee WTFC funds.

2. Put the Secretariat on a stable and neutral basis by forming an alliance with the Historic Towns Forum (see excellent website of EHF at http://www.historictownsforum.org/). Their efficient Secretariat is based at UWE, Bristol and their Executive Committee and Chair are sympathetic to an arrangement and have made tentative proposals for discussion. These will not cost WTFC much more than current arrangements with Chester. I retired last year from University of West England, Bristol and can therefore commit substantial amounts of voluntary time to WTFC and its member towns to ensure a clean handover from the Chester and West Cheshire Secretary General, update/renew the Business Plan and prepare the way for a Presidential Election in about two or three years’ time. In accordance with practice before 2000, I would reinstitute a separate Chair of the Executive, elected from and by that body and endorsed by the AGM.

3. Set up a constitutional e-mail working party to make firm constitutional proposals for wide consultation before and then final discussion at the June 2010 Executive Committee with the intention of proposing specific constitutional amendments to the 2010 AGM.

4. Encourage new and reconnected existing local WT networks e.g. Veneto and co-ordinate activities with other historic town networks – EHF, EAHTR, Cittàslow, Hanseatic League, Vauban Towns etc.. Full use of revived websites and our Symposia will be how to achieve this priority.

5. Develop with the ‘Peace through Tourism’ movement Canterbury Accord activities and if support can be generated develop a mutual help network to aid in the restoration of civic pride for walled towns worldwide, which suffer disasters though earthquake, other natural causes or war.

I will listen to the concerns of every member town and support effective initiatives in line with our existing Objectives. I will encourage WTFC to promote sustainability and to counter global warming. Personally I aim to flying less far than I travel by train and to driving my car less far than I cycle.

Curriculum Vitae

Working with the walled town of Chepstow (1989-1994) and living for seven years in Chester introduced me to walled towns. I contributed to drafting the first Constitution of WTFC at the Cardiff Symposium (1991) and have attended and contributed to every annual Symposium and nearly every Executive Committee since. During this time and with others, I have initiated and led many bids and projects funded by the European Commission. The ‘Soft Sustainable Tourism in Walled Towns’ project (1992-94) helped establish WTFC and generated a contribution of some €4000 to the reserves of the Circle by putting value on the voluntary work of the Secretariat.

I have lectured in tourism at Bristol Polytechnic, now University of West of England, Bristol since 1983, leading field trips to many welcoming walled towns: Alcúdia, Brecon, Bergues, Chepstow, Le Quesnoy, Lucca, Tenby and Piran (ten times from 1998 to 2008). I speak fair French and German and read Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese and have co-operated internationally in my work and research (See http://www.walledtownsresearch.org/ for some 20 relevant publications). Before joining the University, I was a Marketing Manager and Transport Planner with National Bus Company in Chester, Oxford and London. I studied History, Economics and Town Planning at St Andrews (MA) and Edinburgh (MPhil) Universities (thesis on ‘Pedestrian Priority Shopping Streets’ 1975) and I am professionally qualified in Town Planning (MRTPI), Transport (MCILT) and Tourism (MTS). I currently hold a Visiting Research Fellowship at UWE, Bristol for tourism, especially walled towns research.

New Case Study Published

Case Study 10 'A new Russian window to the West - the province of Kaliningrad' has been prepared by Dr Elena Kropinova Immanuel Kant State University of Russia, Kaliningrad, and David Bruce Principal Lecturer in Tourism, Bristol Business School, University of West of England, Bristol pp 717-731
and includes material on the fortified city of Kaliningrad (formerly Koenigsberg) In newly published "The Business of Tourism" 8th Edition Pearson Education
Chris Holloway, R. Davidson, Claire HumphreysApr 2009, Paperback, 792 pages ISBN13: 9780273717102ISBN10: 0273717103£37.99
p271 has reference to the Walled Towns Friendship Circle

HERITAGE ZONE

Link to Heritage Zone

Bruce, D.M. and Creighton O. (2006) Contested Identities: the dissonant heritage of European Town Walls and Walled Towns. International Journal of Heritage Studies 13(3), 234-54
(from Google) a full text (no illustrations) version is now available from Exeter University of the Article 1 Contested Identities: The Dissonant Heritage of European Town ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLgathered from walled towns across Europe, including member. towns of the WTFC ( Walled Towns Friendship Circle) and. inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Sites, ...eric.exeter.ac.uk/exeter/bitstream/10036/28473/2/Contested%20identities.pdf