Event category: Friday, November 18, 2022

Chair persons:

• Maciej Adamiak | On-site
• Tomasz Napierała | On-site

Description:

Visit ITC2022 sessions.

Presentations:

1. GIS to support a more successful sustainable tourism indicator system? A theoretical, practical and a comparative analysis (Fiona McKenna, James Hanrahan) | On-site
2. Visit Portugal during #COVID-19: Crisis communications and destination image repair (Mariana Casal-Ribeiro, Rita Peres, Inês Baovida-Portugal) | Online
3. Urban cultural heritage in the digital space (Urszula Tłuczkiewicz, Patryk Brambert, Iwona Kiniorska) | Online
4. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functioning of tourist short-term rental platforms in Polish cities (Karolina Kacprzak, Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł, Ewa Szafrańska) | On-site
5. Social media Flickr in tourism research: A content and bibliometric analysis (Márcio Martins, Estela Martins) | On-site
6. Visitors’ intra-attraction space-time behaviour: A content and bibliometric analysis (Márcio Martins, Isabel Rodrigues, Elsa Esteves) | On-site
7. Smart web platform for monitoring sustainable tourism (Candida Silva, Bruno Barbosa Sousa, Fernando Perna, Goretti Silva, Susana Lima, Aida Carvalho, Carlos Fernandes, Eugénia Devile, Gorete Dinis, Maria Alexandra Malheiro, Maria João Custódio, Maria López) | On-site

Chair persons:

• Luís Lima Santos | On-site
• Conceição Gomes | Online

Description:

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Presentations:

1. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the activities of tourism information centres. The case of Lithuania (Viktorija Baranauskiene, Gintare Pociute-Sereikiene, Edis Kriauciunas) | Online
2. Restaurants’ solvency during COVID-19: The Portuguese case (Filipa Campos, Cátia Malheiros, Conceição Gomes, Luís Lima Santos) | Online
3. Pricing in the restaurant industry: A bibliometric analysis (Cátia Malheiros, Filipa Campos, Conceição Gomes, Luís Lima Santos) | On-site
4. The acceptance of active tourism companies to the introduction of an ecological tax in a nature tourism destination (Jorge Soares) | Online
5. Lifestyle migrant entrepreneurism and the sustainable development of tourism and rural areas in the Algarve (Kate Torkington, Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro, Sandra Rebelo, Susana Conceição) | Online
6. Sustainable tourism: A literature review (Isabel Loureiro, Vânia Costa, Alexandra Malheiro) | Online

Chair persons:

• Fernando Perna | On-site

Description:

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Presentations:

1. Contemporary problems and directions of development of ski resorts in Poland in the context of the idea of sustainable development (Kinga Krzesiwo) | On-site
2. Overtourism and sustainability in Polish tourist areas: Causes – characteristics – social resonance (Piotr Majdak) | On-site
3. Visiting destinations through motivation to participate in sport events: Post-pandemic changes and impacts on destination image (Fernando Perna, Maria João Custódio, Elsa Pereira) | On-site
4. Environmentally friendly behaviors of bicycle tourists (Levent Soyalp) | On-site

Chair persons:

• Goretti Silva | On-site
• Justyna Mokras-Grabowska | On-site

Description:

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Presentations:

1. How does higher education prepare tourism students to work with technologies? (Ana Elisa Sousa, Sónia Pais) | Online
2. Determining environmental attitudes of tourist guide candidates (Sevda Birdir, Gizem Derinalp, Kemal Birdir) | Online
3. Foreign language learning in tourism degree courses: An analysis of the offer in Portuguese higher education (Ana Pires, Laura Chagas, Paula Cardoso) | Online
4. ‘Sustainable Tourism’ – Curriculum, aims and objectives of a new course of studies at the University of Lodz, Poland (Justyna Mokras-Grabowska, Aleksandra Mroczek-Żulicka) | On-site
5. Entrepreneurship education in tourism – a systematic literature review (Marcin Olszewski) | On-site
6. Cooperative learning as a platform for development of soft skills in the tourism context (Goretti Silva, Mariana Oliveira, Alexandra Correia) | On-site

Chair persons:

• Luís Lima Santos | On-site

Description:

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Presentations:

1. Events as transformational experience (Krzysztof Celuch) | On-site
2. A sustainable approach to the financial recovery of the hotel sector: Insights from Portugal (José Fernandes, Kelly Maguire, Luís Lima Santos) | On-site
3. Rethinking the tourist satisfaction at destination level through importance-performance analysis: Evidence from Madeira Island (Mara Franco, António Almeida, Rui Castanho) | On-site
4. Diagnosis of sustainability in Portuguese tourism SMEs (Maria Carmen Pardo, Goretti Silva, Mariana Oliveira) | On-site
5. Tourism business and COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania: Challenges, adaptation, opportunities (Gintare Pociute-Sereikiene, Viktorija Baranauskienė, Edis Kriaučiūnas) | On-site
6. Political instability and tourism sector resilience: The case of Ukraine (Łukasz Quirini-Popławski, Natalia Tomczewska-Popowycz, Sławomir Dorocki) | On-site
7. Liquidity or profitability: What is the goal in Portuguese restaurants? (Ana Ramires, Ana Lucas, Paulo Marques) | On-site

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

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

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.