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Tourism 21: Re-building Tourism – Continuities and Changes - ATLAS Annual Conference 2021 ONLINE 7-10 September 2021

Tourism 21: Re-building Tourism – Continuities and Changes

September 7-10, 2021

The ATLAS Annual Conference 2021 will be held ONLINE 7-10 September 2021

The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to 1 May 2021

 

Introduction

Tourism 21: Re-building Tourism – Continuities and Changes

It is clear that the year-on-year growth of global tourism has been dramatically brought to a halt by the Covid-19 pandemic. For probably the first time in history on such a scale world travel has been brought to an almost complete standstill. The consequences of this are being felt by destinations at national, regional and local level with businesses and communities struggling to deal with the unprecedented decline in tourist numbers.

Tourism stakeholders, from governments, state tourism organisations, transport operators, destination management organisations and attraction managers to accommodation owners, small businesses, local communities and prospective tourists themselves, are all preparing themselves for a process of re-building global tourism. However, this is also a period of reflection for all the many different sectors that comprise international tourism as they consider how they will need to adapt to a covid / post-covid future and how it will be shaped by new realities in tourist demand and tourist behaviours.

Tourism 21 seeks to generate debate and discussion amongst and between academics, policy makers and practitioners regarding expectations, prospects, policies, plans, ideas and initiatives for the re-building of global tourism. We invite conference participants to consider the future of global tourism from international, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives.

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Keynote speakers

 

Laura James

Laura James is Associate Professor of Tourism Development and Regional Change at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests are focused on tourism policy and destination governance, and the role of tourism in regional development. In recent years she has researched knowledge dynamics and innovation, tourism policymaking, and sustainability issues related to tourism development in the Nordic region and the UK. Her work has been published in journals such as Urban Studies, European Urban and Regional Studies and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. She is co-editor of Theories of Practice in Tourism (2019).

 

Carina Ren

Carina Ren is an ethnologist and Associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Carina researches how tourism interferes with other fields of the social through cultural innovation and explores the different practices and processes through which tourism is developed, organized and valued. Geographically, her research is situated in the Nordic Arctic and Greenland and most often takes place in research collaborations with tourism organizations and industry, communities and students. She is the co-editor of book such as Tourism Encounters and Controversies. Ontological Politics of Tourism Development (2015), Co-Creating Tourism research (2017), Theories of Practice in Tourism (2018) and recently Collaborative Research Methods in the Arctic (2020).

 

Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson is full Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK and Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage – a longstanding, unique partnership with the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site and Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust - Europe’s largest independent museum. He was previously Founder and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. He remains Editor of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, the Channel View book series of Tourism and Cultural Change and the Routledge Series Heritage, Tourism and Communities. For 30 years Mike's work has focused upon the relations between heritage, tourism, culture and how these realms intersect. Publications relate to World Heritage and Tourism, Heritage and Popular Culture, the Concept of Tradition, and Emotion in Tourism. He is an advisor to the UNESCO World Heritage Programme in Sustainable Tourism and to the UK’s National Commission for UNESCO. He was a Government appointed member of the UK’s Expert Panel to determine the UK’s Tentative List for World Heritage. Mike has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in over 40 countries with UNESCO, European Commission, various State Agencies, NGOs and has long worked on researching, developing and evaluating Cultural Routes and itineraries including those of the Council of Europe.

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Conference themes

We Tourism 21 seeks to generate debate and discussion amongst and between academics, policy makers and practitioners regarding expectations, prospects, policies, plans, ideas and initiatives for the re-building of global tourism. We invite conference participants to consider the future of global tourism from international, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives within the following broad themes:

Governance, policy and planning

  • To what extent are new institutional frameworks / new forms of collaboration required for the management of covid / post-covid tourism?
  • What adjustments will need to made to policies at national, regional and local levels?
  • What provisions can be made for community involvement in shaping new forms of tourism?

Networks and collaboration

  • What role can networks play in re-building tourism?
  • How can we enhance co-creation and innovation in tourism?
  • How can ICT support regional development

Sustainable tourism futures

  • How can sustainable tourism be mobilised as a driving force for job creation and economic development?
  • What strategies can the business community adopt to contribute to sustainable tourism recovery?
  • In which ways can tourism contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals?

Tourism and cultural change

  • How has the covid pandemic shaped the cultures of tourism and travel?
  • To what extent can post-covid tourism contribute to deeper engagement with cultural diversity?
  • What are the challenges and opportunities for the cultural and heritage sectors in re-aligning with global tourism?

Environmental considerations in tourism development

  • What ecological imperatives have been highlighted in tourism through the covid pandemic?
  • To what extent is the natural world challenged by tourism in recovery?
  • How best can peripheral areas respond to tourism as a means to social and economic development?

The tourist experience

  • What changes in tourist behaviours and travel patterns can be anticipated in the next decade?
  • To what extent can new technologies meet the challenges of sustainable tourism development?
  • How can we enhance the meanings of tourist visits to destinations for both host and guest?

Ceterum censeo mutationem climae esse vincendem.

(Incidentally, I think that global warming must be defeated) 

 

Prof. (FH) Mag. Mag. Dr. Harald A. Friedl
Assoc. Professor for Sustainability and Ethics in Tourism
Institute for  Health and Tourism Management
FH JOANNEUM - University of Applied Sciences
Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 24
8344 Bad Gleichenberg, Austria
Phone office +43-316/5453-6725
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