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Professionals and practitioners like destination managers and spatial planners will be targeted by SPOT project’s local seminars. Most significant issues of tourism development impacts on built environment investigated during the SPOT project will be the focus of local seminars organized by every partner of project’s consortium. Local and regional tourism planning institutions, stakeholders of investigated issue of tourism development will be targeted by project’s events. The feedback from local seminars will be used by researchers involved in a project to revise their scientific results.
An academic handbook will be significant output of the project, important from the perspective of students, academicians, but also professionals. It will be a collection of papers presenting issues, tools and solutions for developing sustainable spatial planning of tourism destinations. The handbook will provide a broad overview of the development of European practices in tourism spatial planning. It will present the experience, practices and guidance available at national, regional and local level. The empirical content for the handbook will be collected mainly during the SPOT project study visits, and preliminarily discussed with practitioners during local seminars.
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- Dissemination activities after the SPOT project’s completion
Following the completion of the project SPOT – Sustainable Spatial Planning of Tourism Destinations – we have allocated our savings towards conducting dissemination activities. Consequently, we have showcased our accomplishments at various conferences, including the Congress of Polish Geography, the AESOP 2023 Annual Congress: Integrated Planning in a World of Turbulence, and the 6th International… Read more: Dissemination activities after the SPOT project’s completion - Education for events – events for education: Educational events within the SPOT project’s framework
Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała and Tomasz Napierała (both from University of Lodz) had an opportunity to present findings from the project SPOT during 6th International Conference on Events ICE2023 “Making waves in Poland | Transformational events”. The goal of the SPOT presentation was to evaluate how educational events might stimulate development of sustainable tourism. Understanding of local… Read more: Education for events – events for education: Educational events within the SPOT project’s framework - GastroMap of Lodz – SPOT celebrates 600th birthday of the city
GastroMap of Lodz – we’ve got it! On July 29, 2023 we are celebrating 600th anniversary of granting city rights to the city of Lodz. GastroMap of Lodz is the gift of the Polish community of the SPOT project to the city of Lodz: its inhabitants and visitors. GastroMap of Lodz is the result of… Read more: GastroMap of Lodz – SPOT celebrates 600th birthday of the city - Lesson from Italian local seminar – Turin, September 23, 2022
See the summary of SPOT project’s contribution presented during Italian local seminar. On September 23, 2022, students participating in the SPOT project’s study visit to Italy had an outstanding opportunity to share their achievements with stakeholders of tourism development in the region we investigated – Langhe-Roero and Monferrato. We agreed during Italian local seminar that… Read more: Lesson from Italian local seminar – Turin, September 23, 2022 - Programme of ITC2022. International Tourism Congress
See the programme of ITC2022. International Tourism Congress ‘Tourism – Going Back/Forward to Sustainability’. If needed, you can download the programme as a PDF file. Mind that all hours are in Central European Time (CET). If interested in details of the presentations proposed, see the book of abstracts. International Tourism Congress 2022 is organized by… Read more: Programme of ITC2022. International Tourism Congress - Enhanced mobility for sustainable rural tourism_By Ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero
Enhanced mobility for sustainable rural tourism_By Ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero – see the challenge proposed by the Langhe Monferrato Roero Tourist Board. THE_TOPIC The challenge is proposed by the Langhe Monferrato Roero Tourist Board. Langhe Monferrato Roero is a UNESCO Landscape Heritage area characterised by a peculiar vineyard landscapes. It is located between the… Read more: Enhanced mobility for sustainable rural tourism_By Ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero - Langhe-Roero and Monferrato for sustainable tourism – Locals talking
On Tuesday, September the 20th, 2022, students and researchers from the SPOT project had the opportunity to participate in a session called ‘Locals talking’ organized by the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning of Politecnico di Torino. The session took place in Serralunga d’Alba, and was moderated by Prof. Giancarlo Cotella. In… Read more: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato for sustainable tourism – Locals talking - International Tourism Congress ITC2022: RegistrationRegistration to International Tourism Congress ITC2022 is open: We welcome all researchers, PhD candidates and students interested in geographical, social, environmental, economic, political, and managerial contexts of sustainable tourism. Join our discussion! Join the International Tourism Congress ITC2022! The main theme of ITC2022 is: “Tourism – Going Back/Forward to Sustainability”. Mind that during ITC2022 you… Read more: International Tourism Congress ITC2022: Registration
- Lesson from Portuguese local seminar – Peniche, May 13, 2022
We were impressed by the quality of work presented by our students during Portuguese local seminar. This multiplier event was held in Peniche on May 13, 2022. The aim of the local seminar was to present the results of the SPOT study tour to Portugal. The achievements of a students’ work during the intensive learning… Read more: Lesson from Portuguese local seminar – Peniche, May 13, 2022 - International Tourism Congress ITC2022: Call for AbstractsITC2022 call for abstracts is open till 15th 25th September 2022. The only accepted way to submit the abstract is to use the online system dedicated for that purpose: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/itc/index. Do not send us abstracts by email! Each abstract should be prepared in English according to the requirements described on the website of the online… Read more: International Tourism Congress ITC2022: Call for Abstracts
- Resilience planning of regions: Case of Alto Duoro Wine Region
Resilience planning of regions is a main theme of research conducted by scientists from DIST – Politecnico di Torino. See the latest results published in the prestigious journal Science of the Total Environment by Vanessa Assumma and Marta Bottero contributing also to our SPOT project. In the ongoing context of climate change, wine regions, particularly… Read more: Resilience planning of regions: Case of Alto Duoro Wine Region - The Green Track Stop event “A Walk in the Woods…”
Detailed information about the Green Track Stop event “A Walk in the Woods – citizen science for forests” can be found on the event webpage and on the Twitter account. The Green Track Stop event “A Walk in the Woods – citizen science for forests”, organized on behalf of the vegetation group at Karlsruhe Institute… Read more: The Green Track Stop event “A Walk in the Woods…” - Baleal Beach case study – Locals talking
In a session called “Locals talking” held on May 10th, at School of Tourism and Maritime Technology of Polytechnic of Leiria (ESTM), some of the local stakeholders representing the community were present, namely Paulo Morais Ferreira (President of the Peniche Surfing Club and the national delegate of the Surfriders Foundation), Maria Simões (Manager of Lagido… Read more: Baleal Beach case study – Locals talking - MapoFaktura 2022 – Geographical data analysis for tourism and crisis management
Crisis mapping Recent cartography and spatial data analysis are completely different to the periods before mobile technologies dominance. Web-mapping 2.0 is up-to-date, advanced in technology on the one hand, and inclusive and participatory on the other hand. Everyone can be a professional cartographer. Two contexts of web-mapping 2.0 are important from the perspective of crisis… Read more: MapoFaktura 2022 – Geographical data analysis for tourism and crisis management - Norwegian mountain destination and second-home planning; sustainable or out of control?
Ever growing second-home agglomerations engulf nearly every Norwegian ski resort, or mountain destination, with numerous metastases of new second-home fields spreading into pristine nature. The economic gravitational point of the ski resort has shifted from hotels and lodges to second-home tourism. The sales of plots and building of second homes has become the most important… Read more: Norwegian mountain destination and second-home planning; sustainable or out of control? - Meet Hnat, our Ukrainian colleague
Meet Hnat Sumyshyn, Ukrainian student of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences at University of Lodz in Poland. Now, he is a master student of spatial planning and organisation programme and a member of the students’ community of the project ‘SPOT. Sustainable Spatial Planning of Tourism Destinations’. He also participated in our study visit to Turkey.… Read more: Meet Hnat, our Ukrainian colleague - Kızkalesi case study – Metropolitan perspective
The meeting with representatives of metropolitan institutions and organizations was held at the Faculty of Architecture, Mersin University on December 8, 2021. The discussion was moderated by Yasemin Sarıkaya Levent and Tolga Levent. In the meeting the following persons were present: Barbaros Bektaş (Mersin Metropolitan Municipality – Chief planner responsible from Erdemli District), Barış Başeren… Read more: Kızkalesi case study – Metropolitan perspective - Kızkalesi case study – Locals talking
We would like to send our greetings to all local stakeholders from Kızkalesi who agreed to meet us and share with us their stories, problems, and ideas, namely: Yusuf Çelik (Manager, Has Hotel), Mevlüt Erzurum (Manager of Okan Apart Hotel), Nur Kaya (Manager of Barbaros Hotel), İbrahim Kale (Manager of Etap Hotel), Natık Çoban (Çobanbey… Read more: Kızkalesi case study – Locals talking - COVID-19 impact on tourism: case of Polish hotels
COVID-19 pandemic started just three months after SPOT project kick-off meeting. Pandemic outbreak triggered a major global crisis affecting various human activities, including travel and tourism. It also influenced SPOT project as already planned mobilities of students and researchers had to be postponed or even cancelled. As thus, our first focus was on delivering analysis… Read more: COVID-19 impact on tourism: case of Polish hotels
