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International Tourism and Hospitality Conference The Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations Bournemouth University 4-6 September 2017

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International Tourism and Hospitality Conference The Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations

Bournemouth University 4-6 September 2017

http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/visitor-economy Register on https://thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com

Conference topics

The visitor economy includes all activities which contribute to visitors experiences. At the core are the components of the tourism product, such as accommodation, food, restaurants, transport and attractions. The concept, however, is much broader as the economy caters for the needs of all visitors, not just tourists. It embraces all activities, infrastructure and services provided to make each visitor’s experience possible. To create a successful visitor economy, it is necessary to manage each individual component of the economy efficiently with a focus on the needs of visitors. These strategies and innovations are used to build resilience into destinations and businesses to improve their international competitiveness. The themes of this conference will include, but are not limited to:

  • Animals & tourism
  • Coastal tourism Creative economy
  • Crisis & disaster management
  • Destination branding
  • Economics of tourism & hospitality
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Food, nutrition & wellbeing
  • Food & beverages
  • Forecasting Hospitality management ICT for development
  • ICT & social media
  • Marketing Smart tourism Sports tourism
  • Special events Sustainability
  • The visitor economy & peace
  • The visitors economy: strategies & innovations (in Spanish)
  • The visitor economy in the Mediterranean
  • Tourism and hospitality education
  • Tourism experience & co-creation
  • Tourism & poverty alleviation
  • Tourism planning & innovation
  • Transportation issues
  • Work & labour in tourism & hospitality

Please submit email abstracts by 26 May to: DepTHconference2017@bournemouth.ac.uk

The conference brings together leading academics and industry researchers to exchange and share their experiences, knowledge and ideas on all aspects of the visitor economy.

Keynotes include

Dr Igor Calzada Oxford University UK

Professor Carlos Costa University of Aveiro Portugal

Professor Alan Fyall University of Central Florida USA

Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas Sorbonne University France

Richard Lewis International hospitality executive, Dubai

Dr Sarote Phornprapha Dusit Thani College, Thailand

Professor Mariana Sigala University of South Australia Business School Australia

Timescale 

Abstract submission: 26 May

Acceptance: 30 June 2017

Deadline for registration: 18 Aug

Email abstracts to: DepTHconference2017@bournemouth.ac.uk

Conference fees

Early Bird Delegate:      £345 (by 14 July)

Early Bird Student: £190 (by 14 July)

Delegate fee :       £475

Student fee:         £240

Deadline to register: 27 August 2017

Social programme

We are committed that our delegates will have an incredible time in Bournemouth. An extensive social programme will enable all delegates to network with keynote speakers, journal editors and leading authors in the field as well as having good fun. You will have the opportunity to work and party.

Indicative social agenda

Thursday 31 August ­ Sunday 3 September- Bournemouth Air Festival

Sunday 3 September – 18:00 – Informal get together at a British Pub

Monday  4 September – Welcome salsa reception and networking

Tuesday 5 September – Conference WHITE dinner, party and awards

Wednesday 6 September 2017 ­ After conference tours and dinner

 

BU Tourism and Hospitality Conference Bournemouth University, 4-6th September 2017  

Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations

http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/visitor-economy Register on

https://thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com

Dr Duncan Light interviewed about Dracula tourism on Radio New Zealand

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Dr Duncan Light interviewed about Dracula tourism on Radio New Zealand

For over 10 years Duncan Light has been studying the development of ‘Dracula tourism’ in Romania. He was recently interviewed about this subject on the “Nights” show on Radio New Zealand.

You can hear the full interview here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=201843391

 

You can hear the full interview here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=201843391

Professional Development Courses for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector start at Bournemouth University

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Professional Development Courses for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector have started at Bournemouth University

Book now
In the Department of Tourism and Hospitality, we pride ourselves on the cutting edge knowledge and professional excellence we cultivate. The combination of staff expertise and enthusiasm, knowledge excellence and co-creation with industry, generate innovation and best professional practice. Our May 2017 suite of professional development courses for the Tourism and Hospitality industry started with Digital Excellence. The courses aim to support managers in their operational and strategic thinking as well as bring the tools and techniques to help grow business.

Bournemouth University Tourism and Hospitality Professional Courses

Bournemouth University Tourism and Hospitality Professional Courses

Join us to learn how you can develop your potential and competitiveness through managing your staff, developing your product and service, understanding your customers and using digital marketing. You will also have access to our resources and networks to develop your competitiveness. The courses are delivered through interactive workshops and networking with leading academics and students and will support managers to develop contemporary knowledge of critical business aspects that influence their profitability and performance.

Digital excellence

Tuesday 9 May

09.30-12.30: Agile tourism and hospitality marketing with Dimitrios Buhalis
Enhance your marketing strategy and build your reputation through so-co-mo (social media/context based/mobile) marketing; and discover other exciting and engaging ideas.
13.30-16.30: Data-driven digital marketing in Tourism & Hospitality with Dr Philip Alford
Data driven digital marketing for small to medium sized tourism and hospitality organisations.

Connecting and engaging

Wednesday 10 May

09.30 -12.30: Consumer behaviour with Dr Hanaa Osman
Gain a critical understanding of the individual and social processes that influence human behaviour; and learn what this means for your business.
13.30-16.30: Managing self and others with Dr Evangelia (Lia) Marinakou
Managing self and others through emotional intelligence (EI).

Hospitality operations

Thursday 11 May

09.30-12.30: Current and future food safety problems with Philippa Hudson
Make sure you stay in control with an awareness of potential food safety issues by considering problems now and in the future.
13.30-16.30: Successful negotiations in hospitality organisations with Crispin Farbrother
Negotiating is a key skill for all good hospitality leaders, whether dealing with customers, staff or suppliers.

Sustainable profit

Tuesday 16 May

09.30 – 12.30: Planning for profit in Tourism & Hospitality with Morris D’Cruz
Planning is critical to any business and is particularly important to the fast-paced environment of the tourism and hospitality industry.
13.30-16.30: Managing waste and improving sustainability with Dr Viachaslau Filimonau
Integrate sustainability principles / environmental management practices in tourism and hospitality operations.

Empowering people to deliver excellence

Wednesday 17 May

09.30 – 12.30: Building powerful teams in the tourism & hospitality industry with Christian Lemmer
A successful team ensures the right people are doing the right things at the right time, even when you are not there.
13.30-16.30: Managing a multicultural workforce in the UK hospitality industry with Dr Charalampos (Babis) Giousmpasoglou
The key to unlock the talent potential is the understanding of culture and how it works at an organisational level.

Creativity through culture

Thursday 18 May

09.30-12.30: Creative industries and tourism: partnership strategies with Dr Philip Long
Harnessing the potential of the creative industries for tourism and tourism for the creative industries.
13.30-16.30: Managing across cultures with Dr Lorraine Brown

Contact us

For further information, advice or queries, please contact: Christian Lemmer (Monday to Friday on 01202 965227) or Claire Main (Monday to Wednesday on 01202 961481).

Professional Development Courses for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector at Bournemouth University May 9 – 18

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Professional Development Courses for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector at Bournemouth University May 9 – 18

https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/events/professional-development-courses-tourism-hospitality-sector

Bookings:  https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bournemouthuniversity 

Book now
In the Department of Tourism and Hospitality, we pride ourselves on the cutting edge knowledge and professional excellence we cultivate. The combination of staff expertise and enthusiasm, knowledge excellence and co-creation with industry, generate innovation and best professional practice.

Our short courses

We have developed a suite of professional development courses for the Tourism and Hospitality industry to support managers in their operational and strategic thinking. They will bring you the tools and techniques to help grow your business.

Join us to learn how you can develop your potential and competitiveness through managing your staff, developing your product and service, understanding your customers and using digital marketing. You will also have access to our resources and networks to develop your competitiveness.

The courses are delivered through interactive workshops and networking with leading academics and students and will support managers to develop contemporary knowledge of critical business aspects that influence their profitability and performance.

Digital excellence

Tuesday 9 May

09.30-12.30: Agile tourism and hospitality marketing with Dimitrios Buhalis
Enhance your marketing strategy and build your reputation through so-co-mo (social media/context based/mobile) marketing; and discover other exciting and engaging ideas.
13.30-16.30: Data-driven digital marketing in Tourism & Hospitality with Dr Philip Alford
Data driven digital marketing for small to medium sized tourism and hospitality organisations.

Connecting and engaging

Wednesday 10 May

09.30 -12.30: Consumer behaviour with Dr Hanaa Osman
Gain a critical understanding of the individual and social processes that influence human behaviour; and learn what this means for your business.
13.30-16.30: Managing self and others with Dr Evangelia (Lia) Marinakou
Managing self and others through emotional intelligence (EI).

Hospitality operations

Thursday 11 May

09.30-12.30: Current and future food safety problems with Philippa Hudson
Make sure you stay in control with an awareness of potential food safety issues by considering problems now and in the future.
13.30-16.30: Successful negotiations in hospitality organisations with Crispin Farbrother
Negotiating is a key skill for all good hospitality leaders, whether dealing with customers, staff or suppliers.

Sustainable profit

Tuesday 16 May

09.30 – 12.30: Planning for profit in Tourism & Hospitality with Morris D’Cruz
Planning is critical to any business and is particularly important to the fast-paced environment of the tourism and hospitality industry.
13.30-16.30: Managing waste and improving sustainability with Dr Viachaslau Filimonau
Integrate sustainability principles / environmental management practices in tourism and hospitality operations.

Empowering people to deliver excellence

Wednesday 17 May

09.30 – 12.30: Building powerful teams in the tourism & hospitality industry with Christian Lemmer
A successful team ensures the right people are doing the right things at the right time, even when you are not there.
13.30-16.30: Managing a multicultural workforce in the UK hospitality industry with Dr Charalampos (Babis) Giousmpasoglou
The key to unlock the talent potential is the understanding of culture and how it works at an organisational level.

Creativity through culture

Thursday 18 May

09.30-12.30: Creative industries and tourism: partnership strategies with Dr Philip Long
Harnessing the potential of the creative industries for tourism and tourism for the creative industries.
13.30-16.30: Managing across cultures with Dr Lorraine Brown

Contact us

For further information, advice or queries, please contact: Christian Lemmer (Monday to Friday on 01202 965227) or Claire Main (Monday to Wednesday on 01202 961481).

Light, D. (2017) Progress in dark tourism and thanatourism research: An uneasy relationship with heritage tourism, Tourism Management, 61, 275-301

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Light, D. (2017) Progress in dark tourism and thanatourism research: An uneasy relationship with heritage tourism, Tourism Management, 61, 275-301

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517717300092

This paper reviews academic research into dark tourism and thanatourism over the 1996e2016 period.
The aims of this paper are threefold. First, it reviews the evolution of the concepts of dark tourism and
thanatourism, highlighting similarities and differences between them. Second it evaluates progress in 6
key themes and debates. These are: issues of the definition and scope of the concepts; ethical issues
associated with such forms of tourism; the political and ideological dimensions of dark tourism and
thanatourism; the nature of demand for places of death and suffering; the management of such places;
and the methods of research used for investigating such tourism. Third, research gaps and issues that
demand fuller scrutiny are identified. The paper argues that two decades of research have not
convincingly demonstrated that dark tourism and thanatourism are distinct forms of tourism, and in
many ways they appear to be little different from heritage tourism.

new article Philip Long The parallel worlds of tourism destination management and the creative industries: exchanging knowledge, theory and practice

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The parallel worlds of tourism destination management and the creative industries: exchanging knowledge, theory and practice

Philip Long, 2017  The parallel worlds of tourism destination management and the creative industries: exchanging knowledge, theory and practice, Journal Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, Pages 1-10 | Published online: 04 Apr 2017

Meeting the HE Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul Minister of Tourism for Thailand

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Meeting the HE Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul Minister of Tourism for Thailand again was an incredibly emotional experience for Professor Buhalis Head of Department for Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University. Not only she is one of the most dynamic Tourism Ministers in the world I have ever met but she is incredibly effective and humble at the same time. 

At the recent WTTC Summit she made sure that each single delegate, from Ministers from around the world to each delegate received a royal welcome to the land of smiles Thailand. All efforts resulted to the best WTTC Summit I have ever attended and the outgoing President and CEO David Scowsill and Chairman of the World Travel & Tourism Council Gerald Lawless thanked her profoundly for all her support. 

She delivered such an emotional farewell speech that she made every single person in the room a passionate supporter for Thailand and its Tourism. Meeting the HE Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul Minister of Tourism for Thailand is an incredible leader and the best tourism global ambassador that any country can wish for. 

Thank you minister for your vision and commitment and your leadership. As I explained the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University will support tourism in Thailand through a whole range of activities and knowledge cocreation for the benefit of all stakeholders.

— at Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre.

 
HE Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul Minister of Tourism for Thailand with Professor Dimitrios Buhalis Bournemouth University

HE Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul Minister of Tourism for Thailand with Professor Dimitrios Buhalis Bournemouth University

New research Eric Tchouamou Njoya and Neelu Seetaram 2017, Tourism Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis,

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Eric Tchouamou Njoya and Neelu Seetaram 2017,  Tourism Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis, 

Journal of Travel Research, 1–12  doi.org/10.1177/0047287517700317

Abstract

The aim of this article is to investigate the claim that tourism development can be the engine for poverty reduction in Kenya using a dynamic, microsimulation computable general equilibrium model. The article improves on the common practice in the literature by using the more comprehensive Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) index to measure poverty instead of headcount ratios only. Simulations results from previous studies confirm that expansion of the tourism industry will benefit different sectors unevenly and will only marginally improve poverty headcount. This is mainly due to the contraction of the agricultural sector caused the appreciation of the real exchange rates. This article demonstrates that the effect on poverty gap and poverty severity is, nevertheless, significant for both rural and urban areas with higher impact in the urban areas. Tourism expansion enables poorer households to move closer to the poverty line. It is concluded that the tourism industry is pro-poor.

Keywords

Kenya, tourism development, poverty, dynamic computable general equilibrium, CGE, microsimulation, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Index