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Global Travel Industry News offers some tips to tourist destinations on how they can work in partnership with arts organisations.

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Visitors at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
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An area of tourism that is often overlooked is the question of the arts and tourism. One of the reasons for this consistent overlooking may be the fact that it is hard to define the term "the arts". In popular parlance the term usually means what is technically called the "plastic arts". That is, those forms of the arts that are restricted to paintings, sculpture and other visual concepts. Of course, the term can mean much more, from musical and dance performances to theater, from architecture to poetry readings...
 

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The arts and tourism (Global Travel Industry News)