Conferences

The Annual General Meeting of the European Network In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson was held on 7 November 2024 in Langogne, in the Cévennes region of France. The discussions at the Annual General Meeting, chaired by Martin White, Chairman, highlighted the joint work of territories that promote the Robert Louis Stevenson’s values of […]

The Cévennes association is already 30 years old, which was set up in 1994 to bring together those involved in tourism in the vicinity of the route followed by R.L. Stevenson in 1878 (whose account was published under the title “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes”).

Over the last thirty years, in addition to a signposted route (GR 70), many cultural initiatives have been launched, bringing together travellers and locals alike. The experience of working in a network has led the association to turn to other associations around Stevenson .

From 25 to 27 September 2024, the Council of Europe’s Annual Consultative Forum on Cultural Routes was held in Visegrád, Hungary.

The 11th Cultural Routes Training Academy was held in Brindisi, Italy, from 4 to 7 June 2024, on the theme of “European cooperation and sustainable development”. The meeting brought together representatives of the 47 European cultural routes, including Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson. In a marvelous […]

The theme of the 2024 international academic conference was “Stevenson intertextual”. This subject was addressed in a number of different ways. Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of R.L. Stevenson, presented “Les écrivains voyageurs décodés”. These are three travel writers who all experienced Edinburgh in the 1870s, but in very different […]