9B. Special interest tourism and experiential tourism based on sustainable practices

Chair persons:

  • Catarina Martins | On-site
  • Vitor Ambrósio | On-site

Description:

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Presentations:

  1. Pilgrimage Way in Azores (Portugal): Promoting religious and creative tourism (Vitor Ambrósio) | On-site
  2. Dark Tourism – A new tourist product to be developed in the North of Portugal? (Eugénia Devile, Ana Sofia Costa, Susana Lima, Andreia Moura) | On-site
  3. Critical success factors of a regional development strategy for olive oil tourism: A case study using the Delphi methodology (Francisco Dias, Fernanda Maria Oliveira, Inês Soares) | On-site
  4. The Olive4All project – Raising community awareness about olive heritage (Fernanda Maria Fernandes Oliveira, Francisco Dias, Inês Soares) | On-site
  5. Travelling to some Inquisition sites, in Portugal and ex-colonies (Isilda Leitão) | On-site
  6. Managing hunting as a sustainable tourism recreational activity in Atlantic Canada (Roselyne Okech) | On-site
  7. Analyze the touristic interests and motivations that lead tourists to visit the West Region of Portugal (Ana Elisa Sousa, Daniela Amorim, Paulo Almeida) | On-site

9A. Special interest tourism and experiential tourism based on sustainable practices

Chair persons:

  • Catarina Martins | On-site
  • Vitor Ambrósio | On-site
  • Bruno Sousa | Online

Description:

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Presentations:

  1. Creating value by implementing the Proof of Purchase in Dock Label: Effects of a Portuguese fishing community on place attachment and developing sustainable consumption in local restaurants (Anabela Elias Almeida, Susana Mendes, Patrícia Borges) | Online
  2. Tourists’ motivations in protected areas: The case of Vale do Tua Regional Natural Park, Northeast Portugal (Luisa Lopes, Salete Esteves, Lara Santos) | Online
  3. Exploring the push and pull factors to visit nature-based tourism destinations: A systematic review (Sazu Sardar, Sangsan Bhumisathan, Azharul Islam) | Online
  4. Escape to nature changes in recreational behaviour of tourists caused by COVID-19 pandemic (Patrycja Brańka, Bernadetta Zawilińska) | Online
  5. Recreational opportunities of wellness tourism (Marina Metreveli, Otar Japaridze) | Online
  6. Local identity and sustainable tourism: Results of a survey with young students from Madeira University about their local community (Naidea Nunes) | Online
  7. The evaluation of sustainable tourism criteria in developing special interest tourism: Example of Bozdağ – İzmir, Turkey (Okan Ogan, Ferdi Akbaş, Füsun Baykal) | Online

15. Challenges of sustainable tourism in Baltic Sea Region

Chair persons:

  • Anette Oxenswärdh | On-site

Description:

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Presentations:

  1. Tourism as a social construction: Between ontological subjectivity and epistemic objectivity (Leszek Butowski) | On-site
  2. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourist traffic in the coastal areas of the Polish Baltic coast (Krzysztof Parzych) | Online
  3. Sustainable tourism education in the Baltic Sea macro-region: Making a case for critical social-ecological literacy (Marta Skorek) | Online
  4. Health behaviours and recreation of city residents: Implications for sustainable tourism in cities (Agata Basińska-Zych, Sylwia Piotrowska-Brudnicka) | On-site
  5. Tourism and accommodation services in Baltic Sea Region: A spatial perspective (Mirosław Bełej) | On-site
  6. Corporate hospitality at Polish tennis tournaments in international comparison (Natalia Latuszek) | On-site

Keynote lecture 4

Social relationships in tourism business during the COVID-19 pandemic

This is keynote lecture presented by

Katarzyna Czernek-Marszałek

is an associate professor, the head of the Department of Management Theory at the University of Economics in Katowice in Poland. She specializes in inter-organizational relationships, in particular cooperation and coopetition. Her research focuses on issues related to the tourism sector. An important element of her scientific interests is also the methodology of qualitative research and the use of Social Network Analysis in empirical research.

She is the author of about 90 scientific publications, including two her own monographs and several papers published in highly ranked journals indexed on the Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2021 list (e.g. Tourism Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Travel Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, and Current Issues in Tourism). Winner of national and international awards for scientific work, including award of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union for a doctoral thesis defended in 2010, a scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists (2016 edition) and the Award of the Minister of Education and Science for significant achievements in scientific activity (2022 edition).

Since May 2021, she has been an associate editor in the journal Annals of Tourism Research. She is the head and member of Polish and international research teams, as well as a member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), the Polish Economic Society and the research community CENA – Coopetition, Ecosystems, Networks and Alliances.

Keynote lecture 3

Sustainable center of Portugal

This is keynote lecture presented by

Pedro Machado

is since 2018 the President of the Regional Tourism Entity Centro de Portugal, public entity that has the promotion, valorisation and development of tourist potential mission in the Centro Region of Portugal, and the President of Regional Agency for External Tourism Promotion of Centro de Portugal.

The Centro de Portugal region is recognized with several quality awards, such as the “Gold Award, Best National Tourism Board / DMO Campaign” by the International Travel & Tourism Awards – World Travel Market, “Best Regional Tourism Entity” by AHRESP, and “Best National Tourism Region” by Publituris.

Pedro Machado holds a bachelor in Philosophy, a master degree in Educational Sciences, Specialization – Educational Psychology, and currently attends doctoral studies in Food Heritage: Cultures and Identities, by University of Coimbra. He is a member of advisory councils of several public and private institutions of higher education, as well as invited external personality of departments and of technical and scientific councils.

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 the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz (Poland) in cooperation with CiTUR Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation. ITC2022 is also final event disseminating achievements of the SPOT project. ITC2022 will be held on November, (16)17-19 2022 in Lodz, the city located in the very heart of Poland. Participants of ITC2022 will be hosted in the Training and Conference Center of the University of Lodz (Kopcinskiego 16/18 Street, Lodz), and the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, at University of Lodz (Kopcinskiego 31 Street, Lodz).

The programme of ITC2022 refers to sustainability of tourism in general. We are going to discuss geographical, social, environmental, economic, political, and managerial contexts of sustainable tourism. The notion of tourism sustainability will be related to the concepts like quality of life, ecosystem services and resilience of ecosystem functions, development and economic growth, social and spatial justice as well as territorial cohesion, and – last but not least – coopetition and tourist packaging.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, Day 0

Mind that all hours are in Central European Time (CET).

Liszewski Hall

Straszewicz Hall

N105 Room

Front room

Mirror Room

T&C Centre

Thursday, November 17, 2022, Day 1

Mind that all hours are in Central European Time (CET).

Friday, November 18, 2022, Day 2

Mind that all hours are in Central European Time (CET).

Saturday, November 19, 2022, Day 3

On-site participants of ITC2022 are invited to join the trip to the Polish case study area of the SPOT Project. We are going to discuss the following topic in the field: Evolutionary changes of tourism in industrial area in transition – Challenges of introducing European Green Deal in Bełchatów industrial district. On Thursday, November 17, 2022, you will have a chance to listen about the case in during the SPOT special session. On Saturday, November 19, 2022, you will be able to experience it for yourself. The trip is organised by the Polish team of SPOT project and REGIO. Enjoy!

TimePlaceActivity
09:00 – 10:30Łódź – BełchatówBus transfer: Bus arrives from T&C Centre
10:30 – 11:30BełchatówCity witnessing radical industrialization: sightseeing
11:30 – 12:00Bełchatów – RudziskoBus transfer
12:00 – 13:30RudziskoLooking for local identity: Meeting with members of Pilsian Tribe Association; Lunch
13:30 – 14:00Rudzisko – ŻłobnicaBus transfer
14:00 – 14:30ŻłobnicaBełchatów energy complex: from radical industrialization to just transition
14:30 – 15:00Żłobnica – Kleszczów (Solpark) – Kamieńska MountainBus transfer
15:00 – 15:30Kamieńska MountainNew tourism infrastructure of Bełchatów industrial district
15:30 – 17:00Kamieńska Mountain – ŁódźBus transfer

5. Tourism-related entrepreneurship in rural areas

Chair persons:

  • Grzegorz Kwiatkowski | On-site

Description:

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Presentations:

  1. Designing appropriate strategies for rural tourism development: The case of Central Java rural tourism, Indonesia (Akhmad Fauzi, Nafiah Ariyani, Farhat Umar) | On-site
  2. The importance of food festivals in sustaining and promoting culinary heritage (Dorota Janiszewska) | On-site
  3. Foodscape transformation through festivalization (Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Anne-Mette Hjalager) | On-site
  4. Eternal tourists or ‘fortune’ seekers? What moves Dutch lifestyle migrants running short term rental properties in the rural Algarve? (Karijn Nijhoff) | On-site
  5. Hospitality at home – Space utilization pattern and synchronization of hosting in Indian Himalayan homestays (Gopinath Vajpai, Debashis Pattanaik) | On-site
  6. Model views of Polish agritourism (Jolanta Wojciechowska) | On-site
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