International Conference Theme: Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, Smart Living

Smart tourism emerges as a concept that enables destinations to build their competitiveness based on the interoperability of systems and co-creation of tourism products between all stakeholders. This is based on emergent smart cities and smart living developments and take city principles to urban or rural areas and not only consider residents but also tourists in their efforts to support mobility, resource availability and allocation, sustainability and quality of life/visits.

The Smart City idea and application from the Critical Social Innovation perspective means that a new paradigm is required when bottom-up interventions are the key governance challenge in the postgrowth era. A requirement that are already taking place due to the effect of some disruptive private initiatives such as Uber and AirBnB, among others, that are altering the traditional dynamic between the locals/residents and the trans-locals/tourists in a new way of combining the practice of travelling, the changing nature of the mobile way of living and the new understanding of the place itself.

Smart Cities and Smart Living can bring together the need to use technology innovations to develop regional competitiveness of territories towards Social Innovation & Governance and create value to all stakeholders. Social, technological, economic, democratic and politically innovative processes in cities and regions introduce a wide range of innovative methods and solutions that improve the value cocreation for all stakeholders.

The theme is inclusive to a range of Smart Cities, Smart Living and Smart Tourism approaches including the following topics:

Deadline for abstract submission:                      26 May 2017

Confirmation of acceptance:                                 30 June 2017

Last date for early bird registration:                    14 July 2017

Deadline for registration:                                       18 Aug 2017

Please submit email abstracts to:           DepTHconference2017@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Further information and Registeration: https://thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com.

Keynote: Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, Oxford University – Tourism in Smart Cities? Effects from the Urban Transformations perspective

Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA is Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University, Urban Transformations ESRC Programme at COMPAS. In addition to this, he holds a Lecturer position at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 2016, he was awarded Visiting Fellow position at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where is organising a Workshop Series 2016-2017 entitled ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’ in a wide range of topics such as data, governance, social innovation, migration, economic development, among others. Outside academia, in the private sector, he worked for more than a decade at the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation Group based in the Basque Country (Spain). In the public sector, he was Director at the Basque Regional Government.He is working on the crossroads between: Territory + Strategy + Social Innovation. Current Research Interests include City-Regions, Governance, Urban Change, PostGrowth Transition, Social Innovation, Participation, Smart Cities & Sovereignty. His main research focuses on comparing social, technological, economic, democratic and politically innovative processes in cities and regions by paying special attention to cases and issues of regional and metropolitan devolution. In particular, he is focused on investigating European City-Region and Smart City benchmarking case studies through the application of qualitative and action research methods. More information: www.igorcalzada.com/about

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