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ATLAS Annual Conference 2019: Tourism Transformations
GIRONA, SPAIN
SEPTEMBER 17-20, 2019
The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to May 1st 2019
We are very happy that the conference program has been enriched with 7 special tracks:
Special track 1 - Transformation through Innovation and Creativity in Events
Special track 2 - Rural Tourism and the Collaborative Economy: Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities
Special track 3 - The politics of tourism mobilities
Special track 4 - Tourism Education, Employability and Industry – University Interaction
Special track 5 - Managing congestion in urban spaces
Special track 6 - Integrating Culture and Nature: Holistic Heritage Management Education and Transforming Heritage Tourism
Special track 7 - The sustainability issues of migrant labour in tourism
Conference theme: Tourism Transformations
Tourism will continue growing in the foreseeable future. Although this may be positive news for tourism businesses, the future of tourism needs to go beyond mere numbers, putting the focus on qualitative issues such as sustainability and wellbeing instead of overnights or money spent.
Moreover, modern societies are arguably moving towards a new paradigm in which the preference for intangible experiences over tangible possessions is growing, and therefore experientialism will overtake materialism in people’s pursuit of happiness. As qualities and intangibilities begin to dominate the market, tourism businesses and destinations will have to be rethought so that both tourists and local communities take a prominent role in the development of tourism.
At the same time, we can also draw attention to the transformational power that tourism exerts in destinations. This power can be observed through the emergence of overtourism or tourismphilia, but it can also be seen in the wide range of untouched destinations willing to attract tourism.
All these transformations are part of the daily life of destinations, businesses and residents nowadays, and clear examples can be found in the surroundings of the conference location. From massively popular Barcelona, to the mature coastal region of the Costa Brava, and the dynamic rural tourism of the Pyrenees.
More information at:
http://www.atlas-euro.org/Default.aspx?TabID=313
Leontine Onderwater
Jantien Veldman
ATLAS
POBox 109
6800 AC Arnhem
The Netherlands
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