The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to November 25th, 2009. Authors will be notified in regard to the acceptance of their abstracts by December 20th. Full papers to be submitted by January 15th will be included in the conference proceedings and will be considered for publication by leading scientific journals.
The 2010 Athens Tourism Symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, educators, students and professionals to explore the trends that are shaping the present and the future of the tourism economy both at the entrepreneurial and the policymaking level. The programme of this event comprises keynotes as well as presentations of submitted double-blind refereed research papers. The organisers welcome contributions that cover - but are not limited to - the following congress topics:
- Planning for sustainable tourism development by managing its environmental, social and economical impact
- Educating and developing human resources in tourism
- Utilising technology in tourism
- Identifying current trends in hospitality management
- Managing transportation trends
- Managing travel distribution trends
- Managing hospitality industry trends
- Managing visitor attractions
- Conducting marketing research in the tourism market
- Developing marketing strategies for the tourism market
- Developing niche markets in tourism
- Developing products for the tourism market
- Communicating and selling in the tourism market
- Organising the destination management and marketing task
- Operating national and local tourism organisations
- Facilitating cooperation among public- and private-sector stakeholders and the local population
- Setting up business clusters in tourism
- Planning for the future of tourism
Abstracts of up to 300 words can be submitted at the website http://ats.conferences.gr/ats2010-papers.html by November 25th, 2010.
More information on the congress is available at the website http://ats.conferences.gr.
