TOURISM, CULTURE AND HERITAGE IN A SMART ECONOMY

19-20 May, Athens

Building on the success of the previews conferences, the 3rd International Conference with the theme “Tourism, Culture and Heritage in a Smart Economy” will provide a timely and interactive international platform for academics and industry practitioners from cultural, heritage, communication and innovational tourism backgrounds and interests to meet, discuss and debate cultural, heritage and other tourism issues that will affect the future direction of hospitality and tourism research and practice in a digital and innovational era. The Conference is supported by the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism.

The aim of this conference is to gather people from academia, industry, government, and other organizations, in order to discuss and develop new perspectives in the field of tourism, travel, hospitality, culture and heritage, leisure, and sports within a knowledge society in a smart economy.

This conference will provide a good mix of stimulating discussions, cutting edge paper presentations and interesting social events. Athens’ multi-faceted sights, attractions and city life appeal to diverse groups of tourists, where shopping, authentic local and fusion gastronomy and clubbing experiences offer a wide range of choices and prices.

Conference Themes/topics

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Knowledge economy and Smart Destinations
• ICTs Adoption for Regional Development, Sustainability and Tourism Experience
• Emerging technologies, Mobile Services, Gaming, Gamification and Augmented Reality
• Location-based Services, Internet-of-Things and Smart Cities
• Heritage and Museum Management in the Digital Era
• Digital collections and the virtual visitor
• Innovations in museum interpretation and collections management and Cross cultural visions
• Cultural and Digital Tourism Statistics, Economics and Forecasting
• Cultural tourism Policy, planning, and governance
• Cultural and Digital Tourism Marketing, Management and e-learning
• Tourism Consumer behavior, decision making, experience and satisfaction
• Sport tourism, Innovations in sports tourism/Sports as cultural heritage
• Festivals and events, lodging and MICE marketing and management
• Competitiveness, corporate social responsibility, Service excellence and service quality
• Social media, Social Networking and ICTs for Partnership and Collaboration
• Human resources management and strategic leadership development
• Innovation, creativity and change management
• Financial and performance management regarding cultural and heritage tourism topics
• Emerging research methods and methodologies
• Wine tourism and gastronomy
• Cultural landscape and tourism
• Film tourism
• Spiritual tourism

For full details visit: http://iacudit.org/Conference2016/about-the-conference/

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