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XV International Tourism Congress 23rd to 25th of November, 2023 The Image and Sustaintability of Tourism Destinations

The Image and Sustainability of Tourism Destinations

Theoretical background for the International Tourism Congress 2023.

The International Tourism Congress (ITC) is the annual scientific meeting of the Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation (CiTUR). The XV ITC edition will be organized by the School of Public Management, Communication and Tourism, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, located in Mirandela, from the 23rd to 25th November 2023.

Back to main theme of the congress The Image and Sustainability of Tourism Destinations the ITC23 will be an opportunity for academics, master and doctoral students to present and discuss national and international experiences on sustainability and development of tourism destinations.

Travelers prioritize destinations and activities focused on environmental sustainability and local community investment, therefore, discussing sustainability and the image of tourism destinations will allow the discussion of the main topics of today’s tourism trends.

The congress will bring together researchers in the different fields of sustainability of travel and tourism and invites all public administration members, industry leaders, and professionals who want to learn more about the most recent trends in the field.

Professor Levent Altinay

The research symposium aims at supporting early career researchers and PhD students, through the process of doing research in the field of tourism. It will be held on the 23rd of November afternoon and participants are required to submit an extended abstract of their research project that will be presented and discussed with the orientation of Professor Levent Altinay. The extended abstract of research proposals will be discussed in the scope of the most recent topics, trends and methodologies on tourism investigation/research investigating in tourism. This way researchers will receive beneficial and most significant feedback on their research proposals. Professor Altinay is the Editor-in-Chief of the Service Industries Journal. A researcher of international renown, Altinay enjoys a vast network of international collaborative partnerships with organisations including Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong and the L.N Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan.

Altinay was a member of the Business and Management Panel in Research Excellence Framework, Year 2021, in the UK. He was also a panel member of the Business & Economics Panel in Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Years 2014 and 2020 in Hong Kong. He sits on the editorial boards of more than twelve journals including Journal of Business Research and Journal of Services Marketing. Altinay has a strong record of attracting blue chip external funding, including funding from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) and the British Academy.

Altinay’s research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategic alliances and international business. Using primarily qualitative methods as well as mixed methods, he is particularly interested in how entrepreneurs start up and develop their businesses and also how firms establish partnerships internationally. His work has been published in Journal of Business Research, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Services Marketing, Annals of Tourism Research and Tourism Management. Altinay has co-authored strategic management, entrepreneurship and research methods textbooks.

Rob Davidson

Dr Rob Davidson is the Managing Director of MICE Knowledge, a London-based consultancy specialising in research, education and training services for the business tourism industry: Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conferences and Exhibitions.

His main areas of expertise are conferences and incentive travel, and he has written seven books on these themes, including his latest publication, Business Events. He has carried out research projects for a number of major organisations including the Poland Convention Bureau, the Ireland National Tourism Development Authority, and the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence. His most recent research publication is a report on Bleisure Strategies of European Convention Bureaus.

He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences on themes linked to business events, in particular to present the results of his ongoing research into conference industry trends. Rob also teaches as a Visiting Professor in three European universities, where he educates and inspires Events Management and Tourism Management students every year.

In 2015, he was awarded a Doctorate from the University of Greenwich for his thesis, entitled ‘Technological and~ Demographic Factors as Agents of Change in the Development of Business Events’.

In 2016, he won the Best Conference Speaker award at the Global Event Awards.

In 2017, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the IBTM WORLD exhibition in Barcelona.

José Manuel Hernández Mogollón

José Manuel Hernández Mogollón, PhD in Economics and Business Studies (Universidad de Extremadura), Master in Commercial Management and Marketing (ESIC), University Professor of Marketing and Market Research, Coordinator of the Inter-University Doctorate Programme in Tourism at the Universidad de Extremadura. Principal Researcher of the Marketing and Tourism Management Research Group.

From 1996 to 1998 he taught at the University of Seville and present has been teaching at the Universidad de Extremadura. He has been Coordinator of the Master in Tourism Management from 2008 to 2019, and Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Business, Finance and Tourism from 2009 to 2012.

He has participated as a lecturer in master's degrees, conferences and round tables in different universities in Europe and South America. He has published more than a hundred papers in the field of tourism management in books and international journals, more than half of which have a high impact factor. He has participated in projects for different public administrations and companies on subjects such as Rural Tourism, Slow Tourism, Gastronomy and Tourism, Experiential Marketing, Neuromarketing, Branding and Destination Image, Nature Tourism, Hospitality, Tourism Intermediation, Sentiment Analysis and Cross-border Development.

Eduardo Parra-López

Eduardo Parra-López, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Experienced Associate Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry (25 years). Skilled in Web 2.0, Marketing Strategy, Tourism Management, Tourism, and Social Media. Strong operations professional with a Doctor focused in Business Studies and Tourism from Universidad de La Laguna. He has been Ex-president of the Spanish Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AECIT). External Advisor to the Central America Tourism Agency (CATA) as training coordinator and visiting professor at several Latin American universities.

Raquel Huete-Nieves

Dr Raquel Huete-Nieves. University of Alicante, Spain.

Raquel Huete-Nieves is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and researcher at the University Institute for Tourism Research of the University of Alicante (IUIT-UA) where she is the director of the Sustainable Tourism Planning & Management Research Group. She has a degree and a PhD in Sociology (University of Alicante, UA) and a degree in Tourism Management (Madrid’s Official Tourism School).

Prior to teaching at the University, she worked in several companies related to the tourism sector (travel agencies and tour operators), foundations dedicated to higher education management and social research consultancies. She was Director of the Rafael Altamira Summer Programme and Coordinator of the master’s degree in Tourism Management and Planning. She was also the UA representative to the National Committee for Postgraduate Tourism Studies and the National Information System for Tourism Research (SICTUR).

She served as Director-General for Tourism of the Valencia Region Government from 2016 to 2018. And from 2021 to 2023 Dr Huete-Nieves was the Director of the Continuing Education Centre at the UA.

She has participated as a researcher in many competitive R&D projects, European projects and research contracts. She has been principal investigator of some research projects and contracts, all of them related to tourism and migration. Currently she is the principal investigator of the research project “Study to advance the integration of people with disabilities into the labour market in the tourism sector in the Region of Valencia”. She has published more than seventy articles in indexed journals or chapters in collective books.

She has also been co-edited three books and authored a research monograph. Besides, she has delivered more than one hundred presentations at national and international conferences and participated, several times as a guest expert, in numerous tourism-related events held by international organisations such as the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Parliament.

Packages	Onsite and online
Packages	Until 14th October (Early Bird)	Until 27st October
Authors with presentation and full paper publication (a)	310€*	340€*
Authors with presentation and extended abstract publication (b)	175€*	205€*
Members with presentation and full paper publication (a; c)	210€*	230€*
Members with presentation and extended abstract publication (b; c)	90€	110€
Accompanying person	75€*	95€*
Participants without presentation	75€*	95€*

Authors with presentation and full paper publication (a)

Until 14th October (Early Bird):
310€*
Until 27st October:
340€*

Authors with presentation and extended abstract publication (b)

Until 14th October (Early Bird):
175€*
Until 27st October:
205€*

Members with presentation and full paper publication (a; c)

Until 14th October (Early Bird):
210€*
Until 27st October:
230€*

Members with presentation and extended abstract publication (b; c)

Until 14th October (Early Bird):
90€
Until 27st October:
110€

Accompanying person

Until 14th October (Early Bird):
75€*
Until 27st October:
95€*

Participants without presentation

Until 14th October (Early Bird):
75€*
Until 27st October:
95€*

(a) Paper publication in Proceedings Book or in the special issue of the European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation (indexed to WoS).

(b) Extended Abstract publication in Book of Abstracts with ISBN.

* The registration fee covers participation in sessions, lunches (23rd and 24th), coffee-breaks and certificates.

Registration fee is paid for each full paper or extended abstract submitted. Also, each participant, registered as an author, must pay the registration fee. For papers with more than one author, only the presenting author needs to be registered.

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