On 8-10 July 2020, the Wessex Institute is hosting the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Madrid, Spain.
Sustainable Tourism 2020 is the ninth meeting organised in this successful series. The first was held in Segovia (2004), followed by Bologna (2006), Malta (2008), the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2010), A Coruña (2012), Opatija, Croatia (2014), Valencia (2016) and Vienna (2018).
Today, tourism is an important component of development, not only in economic terms but also for knowledge and human welfare. Tourism today is an activity accessible to a growing number of people.
Sustainable Tourism 2020 aims to find ways to protect the natural and cultural landscape through the development of new solutions which minimise the adverse effects of tourism. This can be achieved through new strategies involving the active collaboration of society as a whole.
All papers presented at previous Sustainable Tourism Conferences as well as all other meetings organised by the Wessex Institute since 1993 are freely available in the WIT eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary).
TOPICS
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the conference. Papers on other topics related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.
- Tourism strategies
- Environmental issues
- Climate change
- Safety and security
- Tourism as a tool of development
- Heritage tourism
- Marine and coastal areas tourism
- Sport tourism
- Tourism impact
- Tourism and protected areas
- Ecotourism
- Rural tourism
- Tourism and technology
- Industrial tourism
- Transport and tourism
- Education and tourism
- Destination management
- eTourism
- Simulation models
- Social and physical infrastructure
- Gastronomic tourism
- The role of the landscape on tourism
- Dark tourism
- Project image
- Sustainability assessments
- Cultural tourism
- Medical and health tourism
- Tourism and nature
- The role of local communities
- Case studies