Conference Topics & Theme

The main theme of this conference is “Breaking Old Barriers for a New World: Mobilizing Tourism Intelligence to Survive”.

We would like to invite submissions that connect knowledge/intelligence to and within tourism. These might include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following topics:

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Shifting Tourism Industry in the Face of Climate Change

• Climate friendly travel

• Destination-wide tourism awakening

• Under- and over-capacity development

• Green and blue, new deal and sustainability

• Sharing economy

• Challenges of mega markets of China, India, Africa, Russia and Muslim worlds

• Re-imagining Mediterranean tourism

• Regained appeals of Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia vis-à-vis Italy, Portugal and Spain

• Tourism and well-being

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Building and Maintaining Capacity

• Tomorrow’s workforce: managing talent

• Gender balance in tourism

• Immigrant and refugee workforce in tourism

• Designing and managing tourist experiences

• Overtourism: succeeding to fail

• Circular economy in tourism

• Tourism entrepreneurship

• Future-making, trend-making

• Niche markets, golf tourism

From Knowledge to Tourism Intelligence

• Tourism and governance

• Research-based strategy

• Intelligence-based innovation

• Industry expectations from university graduates

• How theory informs practice

• Responsible development and marketing

• “A nice place to live is a nice place to visit”

• Breaking old barriers for a new industry

• Mobilizing intelligence to advance