'Governance for Sustainable Urban Tourism' European Conference, Heidelberg, Germany
23 June 2003 - 24 June 2003
Germany
The Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis of the Karslruhe Research Center, the City of Heidelberg, and a number of partners are organizing an International Conference to discuss innovative ideas of bridging science and practice in Governance for Sustainable Urban Tourism and advance the role of Multi-stakeholder Partnerships as effective means of delivering urban tourism policy in context of integrated and sustainable community development.
The conference is a final 1.5-day event of the research project SUSTAINABLE URBAN TOURISM: Involving Local Agents and Partnerships for New Forms of Governance (SUT-GOVERNANCE) of the European Unions Fifth Framework Program, Key Action 4 City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage, The Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Program.
The event will discuss the project methods and conclusions to inform further extensions of sustainable tourism development concepts and practices in the European Community. It is expected to bring together around 50 European experts in urban tourism with project members, partner cities and partnerships representatives. Local and national policymakers, private sector executives, non-profit groups, and European officials will engage in interactive discussions to seek innovative tools and techniques to improve and upgrade development and planning approaches to meet the future needs of tourism businesses, residents and tourists interactively in the European cities. The event offers a great opportunity to learn from other experiences in partnerships development and best practice benchmarking in tourism from hands-on researchers and practitioners, high profile speakers and delegates and meet like-minded professionals, establish new contacts and broaden networking capacities.
The conference is organized into five topic sessions:,· Participatory Governance for Sustainability: Building partnerships for enhancing urban tourism ,· Best Practice Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Tourism: Working together for the benefit of citys all ,· Best Practice Urban Partnerships of Sustainable Tourism: Real case examples from Europe.,· Benchmarking Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Tourism: A tool for assessing, improving practice, and Best Practice diffusion,· Governance and Sustainability of Urban Tourism: Integrating research, development, and policy for meeting the long-term European Agenda
Several keynote speakers will address the latest trends and evolution of the topics. Highly experienced experts in the field will facilitate the discussions in each session.
For further details and information about the conference, please visit: http://sut.itas.fzk.de(opens in new window) or contact the Project Coordinator Dr. Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira e-mail: paskaleva@itas.fzk.de.,
The conference is a final 1.5-day event of the research project SUSTAINABLE URBAN TOURISM: Involving Local Agents and Partnerships for New Forms of Governance (SUT-GOVERNANCE) of the European Unions Fifth Framework Program, Key Action 4 City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage, The Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Program.
The event will discuss the project methods and conclusions to inform further extensions of sustainable tourism development concepts and practices in the European Community. It is expected to bring together around 50 European experts in urban tourism with project members, partner cities and partnerships representatives. Local and national policymakers, private sector executives, non-profit groups, and European officials will engage in interactive discussions to seek innovative tools and techniques to improve and upgrade development and planning approaches to meet the future needs of tourism businesses, residents and tourists interactively in the European cities. The event offers a great opportunity to learn from other experiences in partnerships development and best practice benchmarking in tourism from hands-on researchers and practitioners, high profile speakers and delegates and meet like-minded professionals, establish new contacts and broaden networking capacities.
The conference is organized into five topic sessions:,· Participatory Governance for Sustainability: Building partnerships for enhancing urban tourism ,· Best Practice Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Tourism: Working together for the benefit of citys all ,· Best Practice Urban Partnerships of Sustainable Tourism: Real case examples from Europe.,· Benchmarking Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Tourism: A tool for assessing, improving practice, and Best Practice diffusion,· Governance and Sustainability of Urban Tourism: Integrating research, development, and policy for meeting the long-term European Agenda
Several keynote speakers will address the latest trends and evolution of the topics. Highly experienced experts in the field will facilitate the discussions in each session.
For further details and information about the conference, please visit: http://sut.itas.fzk.de(opens in new window) or contact the Project Coordinator Dr. Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira e-mail: paskaleva@itas.fzk.de.,