Tourism2030 - 5 New: Destination Management- TO BE EDITED

Sustainable Tourism 2017 - 8th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism

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4th Advances in Destination Management Forum

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PURPOSE

The 4th biennial Advances in Destination Management Forum (ADM) invites researchers and practitioners to share and discuss contributions to advance insight and impact in destination management and marketing.

TOPICS

ADM 2018 invites contributions in six different streams:

Destinations as storyscapes
What is next in destination strategy?
The future of destination management organizations (“Bricolage at the fringes”)
Measurement of tourist behavior and data integration for tourism purposes
Governance, regulation, and leadership for destination networks
Open advances (“Don’t let structure hold you back. Show us your new ideas!”)

As a topical focus, we are organizing a special panel session on:

«Tourist data and decisions: Introducing new measurement techniques, data collection options, and challenges»
with industry representatives and scholars working on new solutions in this domain.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

The forum provides an excellent opportunity

to develop an understanding of the state-of-the-art in destination management research and practice,
to test novel ideas in front of an interdisciplinary audience interested/versed in destination management
with very limited administrative effort for submission and while you keep your copyrights at all times,
to challenge destination management and marketing’s cherished assumptions based on practical experience or theoretical considerations, and
to help identify and shape the research agenda in this domain published after the ADM forum as the St. Gallen Consensus on Destination Management.

In the spirit of past forums, we continue our work to bridge the gap between parallel developments in separate disciplinary tracks to connect different bodies of knowledge on destination management and marketing.

The forum benefits from a mix of multifaceted perspectives contributed by researchers from different disciplines as well as practitioners with manifold backgrounds. This mix of perspectives drives stimulating, invigorating discussions of new insights and novel practices in tourism industry and beyond.

CONTRIBUTION GUIDELINES

Contributions of the two target groups vary in aim and form. Please refer to the submission details in the attached PDF or conference website for further detail.

Academic contributions (short papers)

Scholars are invited to submit empirical and conceptual research or viewpoints that push the boundaries of existing knowledge and have the potential to inspire insightful and controversial discussions. Their contributions take the form of short papers that should comprise approximately 5-8 pages.

Practitioner contributions (presentation outlines)

Practitioners are invited to provide state-of-the-art practical insights or domain-relevant challenges in the form of PPT-presentations that hold potential to inspire insightful and controversial discussions.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

January 22, 2018 End of submission period

March 12, 2018 Author notification (academic: double-blind reviews)

& Registration (early bird) opens

June 13, 2018 Official conference opening

ORGANIZERS AND VENUE

The 2018 edition of ADM is hosted by the Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance (IMP-HSG).
ADM 2018 takes place one week prior to the BEST EN Think Tank in Lucerne and two weeks ahead of TTRA in Miami.

28th Annual Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference

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The Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) represents the interests of higher education provides of bachelor degree level and above in tourism, hospitality and events education in Australia and New Zealand. For more information visit the CAUTHE website

It is 25 years since a small group of tourism and hospitality educators (THE) gathered at the University of Newcastle for a conference that was the precursor to the annual CAUTHE conferences. It would have been impossible to imagine back in the early 1990s how industrial cities, such as Newcastle, might adapt to a post-industrial world let alone establish services economies to attract tourists. Yet Newcastle, like many regional cities globally, have successfully negotiated this transition by getting smart about processes of renewal and creating quality services for both residents and visitors on the foundation of a knowledge economy.

CAUTHE 2018 will provide a forum to explore how the rapid development of easily accessible information is transforming the ways by which visitors and tourists behave. It will also provide a forum for considering how tourism, hospitality and events might capitalise on opportunities that emerge in a world where smart technologies produce large data sets that can provide detailed insights into tourist mobilities and behaviours.

CAUTHE 2018 will consider changes that are occurring in the way future generations of tourism, hospitality and event professionals are developing their knowledge and expertise. CAUTHE 2018 will provide opportunities to share knowledge about how contemporary tourism, hospitality and event students learn, the various technologies that assist or hinder the learning process, and the role of educators in a context where information is only one click away.

At CAUTHE 2018 we acknowledge that the process of building knowledge and becoming smart about tourism, hospitality and events can generate a series of paradoxes, ironies, and juxtapositions. Not only does new knowledge challenge conventions in tourism contexts but alternative ways of knowing can disrupt how tourism, hospitality and events are developed and experienced.

Potential topics that capture these juxtaposing dualities include:

Rurality and urbanism in regional tourism destination development
The co-existence of extractive industries and sustainable tourism in destinations
Regulating the tourism sharing economy while deregulating small and medium tourism enterprises to encourage enterprise
Outbound and inbound global mobility of youth – are they equal?
Culturally sustainable Indigenous tourism in a world that uses a primarily global north perspective
Volunteer tourism and the rise of a narcissistic generation
Promoting sustainable tourism services to international tourists who need to travel long distances on high carbon emitting forms of transport
A predominantly male senior academy with a largely female junior academy
Slow tourism in an increasingly time pressured global workforce
The possibility that smart technologies lead to a lack of deep thinking in tourists about sustainability?
Dispassionate tourism scholarship with compassionate outcomes
Continuity with change in tourism, hospitality and events

These topics will be explored through keynote presentations, expert panel sessions, concurrent paper presentations, poster presentations, and a series of workshops.

9th Scientific Conference on Sustainable Tourism

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Creative tourism is a mode of tourism that is characterized by the involvement of tourists to the local population through participatory activities. The cultural diversity of each country, in part due to its traditions represents a major asset for this.

The creative tourism is proving to be a very interesting tourism product as it caters to all categories of person (alone or groups, youth, adults or seniors, families or groups of friends). The principle of creative tourism is to meet the expectations of tourists who want an authentic experience, combining the discovery of a territory to meet with its inhabitants. Thus participation in a creative workshop allows tourists to discover the country visited a more original and pregnant way. In this creative tourism is characterized by interactions between tourists and the visited territory, emotional, social and participatory.

In 2010 appeared a creative tourism network "The Creative Tourism Network" which main objective is to share best practices and to invite new destinations to support and structure their creative tourism. These members offer different activities. This is the case for example of the "Creative Tourism Santa Fe" offering jewelery courses, paintings, ceramics, photography, cooking, artist studios visits.

On the consumer behavior of the plan, some involved more actively with creative practices, exchange knowledge and are also involved in their creation, with creative content. These new consumers bring valuable skills to the design of tourist offers. Thus tourism policies must now bring together tour operators, tourists and territories with a view to value creation, and the creative tourismparticipates to that. The design of a tourism image and / or a territorial brand can as part of the formulation of innovative tourist offer, associate creative activities to destinations. For this the use of new technologies and digital media play a major role in the dissemination of creative content of tourist offers. Finally, if the current trend is to the segmentation of tourism market with offers and new services including creative tourism and other new forms of tourism (wine tourism, language tourism, slow tourism, conference tourism) , they must leave room for sustainable development, and thus be part of a sustainable tourism.

The objective of this conference is to examine the role of sustainability in the development and marketing of creative tourism tourism products. It also aims to address the integration of sustainable development in the production of tourist services or products, particularly in organizational and marketing practices within the creative tourism .

Researchers are invited to submit empirical research, methodological and conceptual documents that focus on topics related to the implementation of creative tourism related to sustainable development.

Potential topics to be addressed include the following:

creative Tourism
Marketing and sustainable tourism organizations
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable tourism development
Visitor Expectations for sustainable tourism
Sustainable tourism destination management
Socio-Ecological Resilience and tourism
hospitality and sustainable tourism industry
green accounting applications and mass tourism
E-tourism, sustainable tourism and social media
Tourism and climate change
Recreation and sustainable tourism
sustainable regional approach and certificates productions as ecolabels
Business and benefits for communities in sustainable tourism
public and Sustainable Tourism Management
Sustainable tourism and communication
Quality and sustainable tourism
Tourism and sustainable development practices
Tourism between economic performance and sustainable development
Sustainable development and sustainable tourism planning
Sustainable tourism and hospitality
Greenwashing and business ethics
Attractive destinations and respect for the environment
Sustainable Tourism Benefits and Costs
Consumer demand and sustainable tourism
Protection of marine and tourism policies
Sustainable tourism and cooperation among stakeholders.
Sustainable tourism and ecosystem protection
Sustainable Tourism Management

Communications can be based on qualitative or quantitative methods. The themes are very broad and can raise the following different areas: marketing, strategy, communication, consumer behavior, human resources, public administration, economics, finance, logistics, legal and sustainable development.

The conference also aims to help bring together tourism professionals who have decided to integrate creative tourism in the marketing of tourism products and tourist destinations related to sustainable development.

ENTER 2018

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Organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), the ENTER conference offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations.

With a theme Digital tourism: engagement, content, and networks the ENTER 2018 conference will focus on exploring emergent and cutting-edge ICT concepts, applications, managerial approaches and business models that reflect the progressive transformation in travel, tourism and hospitality, with a special focus on developing digital strategies that capitalise on content, big data, engagement, and networks.

Issues to be covered at the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Information Systems

● Big Data, Measurement, Text Mining and Analytics

● Mobile Services and Wearable Technologies

● Location-based Services and Context-Aware Systems

● Internet-of-Things and Smart Destinations

● Travel Information Search and Retrieval

● Quantified Self

● Geospatial Web

● Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics

● Blockchain Technology

Digital Marketing

● Gaming, Gamification, Augmented and Virtual Reality

● Website Design and Evaluation

● E-Marketing and Social Media Strategies

● Social Networking, Social Media and Social Inspiration

● ICT and Tourism Experience

● ICT Adoption, Use, and Value Creation

ICT, Governance & Business Models

● E-strategy and e-Business models

● Platform Economy

● Advanced Distribution Systems and Strategies, Dynamic Packaging

● ICT-enabled Partnership and Collaboration

● ICT for Innovation and Service Design

● E-Learning, life-long learning and MOOCs

● ICT for Regional Development and Sustainability

● Legal and Social Aspects of ICT

● E-Government and public policy in tourism

● Digital Divide and Socio economic development

● Privacy and Internet Security

Information Science

● Semantic Web

● Privacy and Data Security

The conference brings together the research community with the industry and it is organized in three streams, namely industry, destinations and research tracks. The conference also features six to eight world-class keynote speakers.

Tourism analytics with massive user-generated content: A case study of Barcelona

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Abstract:

The aim of this paper is to highlight the usefulness of big data analytics to support smart destinations by studying the online image of Barcelona (a leading smart city and tourist destination) as transmitted via social media through the analysis of more than 100,000 relevant travel blogs and online travel reviews (OTRs) written in English by tourists who have visited the city in the last 10 years. The proposed methodology used in this paper facilitates the massive gathering, cleaning up, and analysis of tourism-related user-generated content (UGC) from the most suitable sources, and helps to define the transmitted image of the city through collecting and processing large volumes of digital data. It is also used to extract business intelligence (BI) from OTRs concerning visits to Barcelona’s main landmark/attraction, La Sagrada Familia. The findings of this massive content analysis of information from a trustworthy source, UGC data, is very useful in appling BI to destination management, both in order to develop and assess marketing strategies and to improve branding and positioning policies among tourism and marketing organizations. It reinforces the ability of cities such as Barcelona to develop a smart city and destination concept, as well as a strategy for themselves.

The contribution of website design to the generation of tourist destination image: The moderating effect of involvement

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Abstract

The question of how tourist destination image is generated is an issue of significant interest in the tourism management field. The present work analyzes the effect of the design of a tourist destination website, and the effect of the tourist's processing of information, on the destination image that the tourist creates. In order to achieve this objective, an experimental design was carried out, in which a destination website was specially created in order to manipulate message type and information-overload. The results demonstrate that destination image is more positive when emotional messages are employed on the website and when the individual does not experience overload. The work also demonstrates the moderating role of involvement, in the effect of the factors manipulated in the study (message type and information-overload) on tourist destination image. The conclusions reached in this study hold some interesting implications for practitioners working in tourist destination management.