Event category: Friday, November 18, 2022

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.

Chair persons:

• Eugénia Devile | On-site
• Márcio Martins | On-site

Description:

Visit ITC2022 sessions.

Presentations:

1. Accessibility in events: Are the supply companies ready? (Filipa Gonçalves) | Online
2. How accessible is Portuguese tourism? Reflections on existing good practices (Cláudia Martins) | Online
3. The role of spatial planning in tourism development: Opportunities and challenges (Yasemin Levent, Ezgi Şahin) | Online
4. Accessibility of supply in tourist destinations’ competitiveness models: Review of the state of the art and proposal of a new model (Tomo Valeriano Rosário) | Online
5. Adaptive management of tourism carrying capacity in nature-based sites: Operationalizing adaptivity dimensions (Aliya Tankibayeva, Aliya Aktymbayeva, Zhanna Assipova, Yeldar Nuruly) | Online

Chair persons:

• Vânia Costa | Online
• Marcin Olszewski | On-site

Description:

Visit ITC2022 sessions.

Presentations:

1. Contributions to a history of human capital in tourism: The case of Portugal (Ana Sofia Figueiredo, Inês Brasão) | Online
2. Motivation and training of workers in public canteens and its relation to food waste (Andreia Oliveira, Joana Rodrigues, Cátia Morgado, Carlos Brandão, Maria Manuela Guerra) | Online
3. Wage sustainability in the tourism professions in Portugal from the perspective of future professionals (Bonifácio Rodrigues, Nuno Abranja, Sandra da Cruz, Claudia Almeida) | Online
4. The problems of language education of personnel in tourism enterprises and solution suggestions (Erkan Akgöz) | On-site
5. Sustainability efforts in practice in European hotels – a tricky business (Anette Oxenswärdh) | On-site
6. P2P Accommodation in Portugal: analysis of guests’ perception of the empathy present in the hospitality offered by the hosts (Ana Sofia Viana, Ana Elisa Sousa, Elkjair Medeiros da Silva) | On-site