This conference is envisaged as a significant international event in the field of tourism intending to raise debate on the vast theme of what has post socialist progress meant inside the former communist countries but also for the surrounding non communist ones. The conference aims to stimulate debate across this range of topics by inviting renowned speakers and a wide-ranging audience of academics and professionals from the tourism industry to address practical policy concerns, and stimulate new thinking in this area.
Thematic Pillars
Given the vast area of scientific interest the conference attempts to organize the diversity of discussion themes/subjects under the following main thematic pillars:
1) Tourist emergent markets2) Evolution vs devolution and revolution of leisure and recreation
3) New tourist identity for old destinations
4) Tourism education vs Educational Tourism
Background and objectives
Decentralised economies, adoption of EU legislation, freedom of movement, access to information resulting into stating/restating new tourist paradigms, even economic crisis are considered among the ‘new generation’ of challenges in an attempt to scientifically discus and evaluate the performance of post socialist tourism on the CEE countries across the panels of the conference.
Dear Colleagues,
We have the pleasure to announce that the Department of Human and Economic Geography - University of Bucharest in partnership with the Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism is organizing a conference on :
“Challenges and performance of post socialist tourism in Central Eastern European Countries”
The organizing institutions envisage the event as an attempt to provide an open forum for tourism professionals, geographers, human geographers, tourism planners, tourism decision making individuals, institutions, bodies and tour operators to present and discuss the most recent aspects in several sub-fields of tourism, geography and geography of tourism through the conference works and publication plan. The event is expected to provide a fertile environment for debating relevant theoretical, philosophical and methodological issues, in addition to considering policy dimensions, both in the region of the former communist Central Eastern European countries, and within the neighboring regions where tourist post socialist manifestations had been taking shape.
The event will be held in Bucharest, Romania, May 26- 28, 2011, within the premises of the Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism and the Romanian Academy.
Hoping you will find our event of scientific interest and challenging, we look forward to seeing you all in Bucharest!
The organizing committee