A GRATET international workshop in collaboration with the International Geographical Union Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change, supported by the project “THE TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL MOBILITY PATTERNS IN TOURISM DESTINATION EVOLUTION” (MOVETUR project) MINECO (CSO2014-51785-R. AEI/FEDER, UE), the URV Science and Technology Park for Tourism and Leisure of Catalonia (PCT), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the Diputació de Tarragona.

 

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Wednesday 18^th October 2017

17.00                     Arrival and registration – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura

18.00                     Opening session

 

Welcome:

Salvador Anton Clavé (Co-Chair), Julie Wilson (Co-Chair), Antonio Paolo Russo (Co-Chair)

Dr. Josep Manel Ricart, Vice-Rector for Scientific Policy and Research URV

Ms. Manuela Moya, Deputy Mayor of Vila-seca

Dra. Marta Nel.lo Andreu, Dean, Faculty of Tourism and Geography URV 

 

18.15                     Presentation of the IGU Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change

Dieter K. Müller, Umeå University, Sweden

18.45                     Keynote Presentation:

Tourism Mobilities, Borders and Bodies, Kevin Hannam, Middlesex University, Dubai

(Chair: Antonio Paolo Russo)                                                            

19.45                     Music performance and welcome drinks reception (until 21.00)

 

Thursday 19^th October 2017

08.15                     Registration (continues)

09.00                     Plenary session– Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus (Chair: Dieter Müller)

Keynote Presentation:

Giving Voice to “Alternative Economies”: A Pluralistic Framing of Post-industrial Tourism, Szilvia Gyimóthy, Aalborg University, Denmark

 

10.00     Parallel workshop presentations A / B

A)  Emerging avenues of community-based destination development   Room: Aula Magna	B)  Sports activities and events as turning points in destination development   Room: Seminar Geo
CHRISTIANE GAGNON, SYLVAIN SALAMERO AND GILLES CAIRE The cooperative tourism in Quebec: a mean to reduce socio-spatial inequalities at the regional scale?	RUDI HARTMANN The Impact of Mega Sports Events on Growth and Change of Winter Sports Destination Areas: The World Alpine Ski Championships of 1989, 1999 and 2015 in Vail and Beaver Creek as Crucial 'Moments' in the Evolution of Vail Valley
JON OLANO, FRANCESC GONZÁLEZ AND SALVADOR ANTON Creative Class attraction in Catalan coastal tourism destinations	ANTOINE MARSAC AND ANDRÉ SUCHET Olympics Course, Regional Development and Legacy: Case study in La Seu de Urgell, Spain
KAMRAN MUHAMMAD, JUAN ANTONIO DURO MORENO AND MUGHEES ZAHRA Community Based Economic Benefits of Sustainable Tourism Development: A Study People's Perception of the Northern Areas of Pakistan	NOEMI GARCÍA-ARJONA AND FRÉDÉRIQUE ROUX The role of outdoor sports activities on tourism development and metropolitan regions attractiveness: a comparative analysis between France and Spain

11.00                     Coffee break

11.30                       Parallel workshop presentations C / D

C)    Mobilities and tourism spaces     Room: Aula Magna	D)  Destinations in crisis and resilience-building mechanisms   Room: Seminar Geo
WILBERT DEN HOED ‘The wind through your hair, it’s bliss!‘ – the role of active mobility in tourism and recreation of older people	ELSA SORO Disaster Response: new actors in hospitality and the rhetoric of resilience in the aftermath of a disaster
KAISA PAANANEN Cruisers in the city: mobility and staging of short-term tourists in Helsinki	ERDA RINDRASIH, PATRICK WITTE, THOMAS HARTMANN, TEJO SPIT AND ANNELIES ZOOMERS Tourism dilemma in the veranda of Mecca Governing the halal tourism development in Aceh post disasters
ANTONI DOMÈNECH, DANIEL MIRAVET, AARON GUTIÉRREZ Influence of tourists’ profiles on mobility patterns at destination: a Latent Class Analysis	DEBORAH CHE Placemaking and Tourism Development in Post-Disaster Greensburg, Kansas, “America’s Model Green Community”

13.00                     Lunch – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura

14.30                     Workshop presentations E / F – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura

E)  Tracking and visualising destinations’ operation and development   Room: Hotel	F)  Tourism spaces and places in evolution (I)    Room: Hotel
LEONARDO NAVA JIMÉNEZ Tracking the spatial evolution of the camping industry: New Zealand	MARK SPEAKMAN AND CHRIS PHELAN Path dependence and tourism evolution: The case of Acapulco
JOAN JURADO ROTA AND YOLANDA PÉREZ ALBERT Outdoor Recreational Activities in Protected Areas: Characterizing and Tracking the Use of Open and Public Spaces	AURELI LOJO Public space in Barcelona and the construction of the cultural tourism city
SANDRA NAVARRO RUÍZ Modelling spatio-temporal visitor behaviour within a destination: the intra-destination patterns	SANETTE FERREIRA Wine tourism landscapes: Life cycles, wine resorts and lifestyle farming
VINCENT ANDREU-BOUSSUT, ELODIE SALIN, XAVIER MICHEL AND CHRISTIANE GAGNON Visitors Perceptions and Spatial Patterns in Coastal Heritage Sites	CINTA SANZ IBAÑEZ, SERGI LOZANO AND SALVADOR ANTON                                    Who are the knowledge brokers in tourism destinations? A social network analysis approach

17.00                     Bus departs for the city of Tarragona from the Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura

17.30                     Guided visit: Tarragona’s historic centre

                              Prof. Dr. Joaquín Ruiz de Arbulo, professor of Archeology. URV

19.00                     Cultural event

20.00                     Dinner, El Llagut

22.30                     Bus returns to the Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura

 

Friday 20^th October 2017 

09.30                      Plenary session – Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus (Chair: Julie Wilson)

Keynote presentation:

The Urbanisation of Tourist Resorts, Mathis Stock, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

10.30                       Coffee break

11.00                     Parallel workshop presentations G/H

G)  Tourism spaces and places in evolution (II)   Room: Aula Magna	H)  From identities to representations. Place-making in the global tourism arena   Room: Seminar Geo
DIETER K. MÜLLER Tourism resort development in a pleasure periphery: The case of Tärnaby/Hemavan in the Swedish mountains	BERNADETTE QUINN Repeat visitation, identity construction and place attachment: a case of Feakle village and its traditional music festival
SANDRA WALL-REINIUS AND JARKKO SAARINEN Enclave tourism: Bordering, spatial homogenisation and differentiation in tourism destination development	MARJORIE RUGGIERI Cultural tourism: between patrimony and representations. The Chinese tourists on the «Provence purple gold» road
ANNA ALEXANDROVA AND EKATERINA AIGINA New trends in construction and functioning of tourist routes in Russia	VELVET NELSON Experiencing place and community at local breweries in Houston, Texas, USA

 

12.30                     Plenary session: Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus

The MED Community of Sustainable Tourism in the Mediterranean, Josep Rodríguez, Responsible for International Relations, Tourism Technical Office, Barcelona Provincial Council

 

13.00                     Lunch – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura (return to campus URV afterwards)

14.30                       Parallel workshop presentations I / J – URV Vila-seca Campus

I)  Walkability and tourism destinations     Room: Aula Magna	J)  The ‘cosmpolitisation’ of urban destinations -between controversy and negotiation   Room: Seminar Geo
ALEXANDRA WITTE Hiking Performances on China’s Tea Horse Road: ‘Is this real?’	ASUNCIÓN BLANCO ROMERO AND MACIÀ BLÁZQUEZ SALOM From local shops to franchises. Tourist cities’ everyday life gentrification
YAEL RAM AND C. MICHAEL HALL Walk Sleep Visit: How walkability influences tourist accommodations in an urban destination	DIMITRI IOANNIDES, MICHAEL RÖSLMAIER AND EGBERT VAN DER ZEE From Neo-bohemias to Tourist Enclaves? Urban Restructuring in the Sharing Economy Era
PASCALE NÉDÉLEC Walking on the Strip (Las Vegas). Increased pedestrian mobility reshaping hotel-casinos’ market positioning and attractions	MARTA DEREK, DANA FIALOVÁ, SYLWIA KULCZYK Tourism, gastronomy and the urban space in the old towns of Prague and Warsaw

16.00-16.45          Closing session– Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus

                                (Chair: Salvador Anton Clavé)                       

Discussant: Noam Shoval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

17.30                      Bus departs from the URV Vila-seca Campus for the city of Reus

                               (Passing by the from the Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura at 17.40)

18.00                     Visit to the Gaudí Centre, Reus

19.30                     Aperitif

20.00                     Workshop Dinner, Capsa Gaudí Espai Gastronòmic

22.30                     Bus returns to the Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura 

 

Saturday 21^st October 2017 – FIELD VISIT TO BARCELONA

Barcelona: Tourism Mobilities Shaping City Spaces

Organised by the tourism and sustainability team at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Itinerary

09.00                      Bus departs from hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura (with participants’ luggage on board if heading to the airport afterwards)

The mobile field visit is a guided walking tour around some of the most interesting (and controversial) points of Barcelona's El Raval, Gothic Quarter and Eixample neighbourhoods. Different experts will be joining us at different points around our route to explain in situ some of the key issues and challenges facing these neighbourhoods.

10.30                     Arrival – Plaça Universitat                

10.45                     Plaça dels Àngels, el Raval               

11.00                     Carrer Joaquín Costa, el Raval 

11.15                     El Mercat de la Boqueria, el Raval  

11.30                     Les Rambles                                     

11.45                     Plaça Reial

12.00                     Carrer Avinyó

Coffee stop at La Granja 1872, Carrer dels Banys Nous 4

12.30                     Plaça del Pi

12.45                     Plaça de la Catedral                        

13.00                     Passeig de Gràcia – Casa Batlló, Casa Ametller, Casa Milà La Pedrera

13.30                     Arrive Jardinets de Gràcia

13.30                     Lunch break (at participants’ own cost)

15.30                     Bus from Jardinets de Gràcia to BCN airport terminals (traffic dependent!) and then onwards to Vila-seca (arrival expected 17.30)