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75th AIEST Conference in St.Gallen (Switzerland) August 23 - 26, 2026

  • Stream of discussion: Tourism definition(s) revisited - 75 years after the first AIEST conference
  • Stream of discussion: Designing tourism systems for a sustainable future
  • Stream of discussion: AIEST's Advances in Tourism Research: Perspectives of Actors, Institutions and Systems

More details will be shared soon.

AIEST Outstanding Service Award – Nominations Now Open

The AIEST Outstanding Service Award 2025 honors exceptional and sustained service to the AIEST community, including voluntary leadership, mentorship, organizational support, and initiatives that have strengthened the association.

Eligibility:

  • Open to all AIEST members, regardless of career stage or background
  • Members of the current Board of Directors are not eligible

Submit the nominee’s name, institution, country, and a short justification (50–100 words). Send your nomination by email to Petr Štumpf at stumpf@fek.zcu.cz.
Deadline: July 31, 2025
The award will be presented during the AGM in Paris. It is a selective recognition and may not be awarded every year.

Congratulations to the winners of the awards of the AIEST conference 2025 in Paris, France

The BEST CONTRIBUTION AWARD for the overall best contribution goes to Alessandra Pozzan, Nele Langebraun and Michael Gibbert for their contribution
"Through the looking glass: Navigating tourism case studies and interdisciplinary conventions".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):

  • Peter Lewin, Danyelle Greene, Anna K. Zinn, Sarah MacInnes, Sara Dolnicar for their contribution "University partnership badges as a driver of sustainability implementation in hotels."
  • Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Alice Wanner, Meike Jungnickel for their contribution "Dynamic adaptive pathways: The foundation for transition in tourism."

The PETER KELLER AWARD for the best contribution uniting theory and practice goes to Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Alice Wanner, Meike Jungnickel for their contribution "Dynamic adaptive pathways: The foundation for transition in tourism".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):

  • Thomas Steiner, Rolf Müller, Mélanie Biehl for their contribution "Analyze, design, and test tourism ideas with AI."
  • Giuzel Safiullova, Sara Dolnicar, Anna K. Zinn, Danyelle Greene for their contribution "TOURISM-4-GOOD: A single scheme to target multiple sustainable behaviours and tourism actors."

The AIEST PHD AWARD for the best academic contribution of a PhD candidate goes to Alessandra Pozzan, Nele Langebraun, Michael Gibbert for their contribution "Through the looking glass: Navigating tourism case studies and interdisciplinary conventions".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):

  • Qingqing Chen, Danyelle Greene, Anna K. Zinn, Sara Dolnicar for their contribution "Can self-selected real-time feedback reduce shower duration? A field experiment."
  • Peter Lewin, Danyelle Greene, Anna K. Zinn, Sarah MacInnes, Sara Dolnicar for their contribution "University partnership badges as a driver of sustainability implementation in hotels."

The CRITICAL FRIEND AWARD for the most constructive feedback on the work presented throughout the conference goes to Stephan Bingemer. Runner up is Sara Dolnicar.

Have a look at the abstract book here.

 

 

AIEST reports: The future of tourism with and potentially after SARS-CoV-2

AIEST has been studying the situation in tourism during and after the pandemic with various reports since April 2020.

Have a look at the latest AIEST consensus on tourism and travel in the SARS-CoV-2 era and beyond.

Have a  look at the reports and click here.

New Book: The Economics of Tourism Destinations. Theory and Practice, 3th ed. Routledge.

Norbert Vanhove's book provides a succinct guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners alike to decipher the methods of measurement of supply, demand, trends and impacts. Each chapter combines theory and practice and is integrated with international case studies. Combining macro and micro aspects of economics to the tourism destination, this is an invaluable resource for students learning about this subject and it is also aimed at tourism researchers and policy makers.

Have a look at the flyer.

New Book: Changing Paradigms in Sustainable Mountain Tourism Research

Environmental, social and economic sustainability is an important topic of today’s decision makers in tourism. This book, edited by Harald Pechlaner, Peter Keller, Sabine Pichler and Klaus Weiermair, provides profound insights into current concepts and challenges of sustainable tourism development – with particular regard to mountain destinations worldwide.

Have a look at the new book.

Publication

New Challenges for Tourism Promotion
«Tackling High Competition and Multimedia Changes», Euro 29.95