Sustainable Tourism 2018
conf-id-1464
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2018/sustainable-tourism-2018
Dates of Conference: May 2-4, 2018
Address of Event: Schloss Wilhelminenberg hotel
Savoyenstraße 2
1160 Wien
Austria
Location: Vienna, Austria
Deadline for Submission:
Submission Guidelines: Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as soon as possible by completing the form below. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Please submit only one abstract per person.
Once your abstract has been reviewed, you will be notified of the acceptance of your abstract and be given a submission date as well as instructions on how to prepare your paper.
Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted for publication, must be presented at the conference.
We encourage early submission of abstracts and papers to facilitate registration and travel arrangements.
The language of the conference will be English.
Conference Chair: U Probstl-Haider
University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Austria
F Pineda
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
C A Brebbia
Wessex Institute, UK
Description: Sustainable Tourism 2018 is the eighth meeting organised in this successful series. The first was held in Segovia (2004), followed by Bologna (2006), Malta (2008), the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2010), A Coruña (2012), Opatija, Croatia in 2014 and Valencia, Spain in 2016
Today tourism is an important component of development, not only in economic terms but also for knowledge and human welfare. Tourism today is an activity accessible to a growing number of people.
The phenomenon has many more advantages than disadvantages. New forms of economic development and increasing wealth of human societies depend on tourism. Our knowledge of the world now includes a strong component due to tourism. Human welfare has physiological and psychological elements, which tourism promotes, both because of the enjoyment of knowing new territories and increasing contacts with near or far away societies and cultures.
The tourism industry has nevertheless given rise to some serious problems, including social costs and ecological impacts. Many ancient local cultures have practically lost their identity. Their societies have oriented their economy only to this industry. Both the natural and cultural – rural or urban – landscapes have also paid a high price for certain forms of tourism. These problems will persist if economic benefit is the only target, leading to economic gains that eventually become ruinous. It is also a grave error to disregard the fact that visitors nowadays are increasingly demanding in cultural and environmental terms.
Never before have transport and communication links been so important as today. Natural ecosystems are now a rarity on the planet and ecologists talk today about ‘socio-ecosystems’. Given this, tourism and environmental education are facing a major challenge.
The ‘Global Change’ is a set of natural environmental changes that are strongly affected by technological and social developments. Natural changes are inherent in the Earth’s ecosystem (the ‘ecosphere’). Also, technological and social changes are inherent to mankind (the ‘noosphere’) and are now becoming widespread. Cities are growing rapidly and industry requires increasingly larger areas. Many traditional rural areas are being abandoned. Tourism should also play an important role in this context. Thus, interestingly, many historic agricultural districts have maintained, or even recovered, their local population numbers through intelligent strategies of tourism focused on nature and rural culture. Natural landscapes and biodiversity are becoming increasingly appreciated. The tourism industry must be able to respond to these aspirations.
Sustainable Tourism 2018 aims to find ways to protect the natural and cultural landscape through the development of new solutions which minimise the adverse effects of tourism. This can be achieved through new strategies involving the active collaboration of society as a whole.
Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Sustainable Tourism 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.
• Tourism strategies
• Environmental issues
• Climate change
• Safety and security
• Tourism as a tool of development
• Heritage tourism
• Marine and coastal areas tourism
• Sport tourism
• Tourism impact
• Tourism and protected area
• Ecotourism
• Rural tourism
• Tourism and technology
• Industrial tourism
• Transport and tourism
• Education and tourism
• Destination management
• eTourism
• Simulation models
• Social and physical infrastructure
• Gastronomic tourism
• Contents tourism
• Sustainability
• Role of the landscape on tourism
• Dark tourism
• Project image
• Sustainability assessments
• Gender role
• Cultural tourism
• Medical and health tourism
• Tourism and nature
Contact: Conference Secretary - Irene Moreno Millan - imoreno@wessex.ac.uk
Cost: Registration Type
€780 - Conference Chairmen, WIT Fellows & Members of the ISAC Registration Fee
€890 - Registration Fee
€560 - Student Registration Fee
Additional Options
€70 - Conference Dinner
€85 - 1 Hard copy of the publication in which your paper is published (free postage) ^
€145 - 2 Hard copies of the publication in which your paper is published (free postage) ^
€170 - 3 Hard copies of the publication in which your paper is published (free postage) ^
Fee includes electronic copy of the papers presented at the conference, other documentation and refreshments
Students must provide confirmation of status.
^ Discounted price available at registration only. Normal prices: €125 - 1 copy, €175 - 2 copies, €250 - 3 copies
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