74th AIEST Conference in Paris (France) August 24 - 27, 2025
- Stream of discussion: Human and Machine Relations in Tourism
- 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
Congratulations to the winners of the awards of the AIEST conference 2024 in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
The BEST CONTRIBUTION AWARD for the overall best contribution goes to Danyelle Greene, Anna Zinn, Yash Panday, Marius Portmann, Bettina Grün, and Sara Dolnicar for their contribution
"Anthropomorphism – A light-hearted way to trigger environmentally sustainable tourist behavior?".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):
- Pietro Beritelli, Florian Gasser, and Zeinab Seifpour for their contribution "Choice heuristics for visiting cultural sites: A comparative study with two polar cases."
- Meike Jungnickel and Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider for their contribution "The ski resort closes: what de-growth feels like? A case study from lower Austria."
The PETER KELLER AWARD for the best contribution uniting theory and practice goes to Danyelle Greene, Anna Zinn, Yash Panday, Marius Portmann, Bettina Grün, and Sara Dolnicar for their contribution "Anthropomorphism – A light-hearted way to trigger environmentally sustainable tourist behavior?".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):
- Pietro Beritelli, Florian Gasser, and Zeinab Seifpour for their contribution "Choice heuristics for visiting cultural sites: A comparative study with two polar cases."
- Jürg Stettler and Melanie Wyss for their contribution "Sustainability communication of a marketing hotel cooperation: The case of Private Selection Hotels & Tours (PSH&T)."
The AIEST PHD AWARD for the best academic contribution of a PhD candidate goes to Alessandra Pozzan, Nele Langebraun, and Michael Gibbert for their contribution "Polyphonic case studies: the emergence of a dialogical methodology in tourism research".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):
- Meike Jungnickel and Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider for their contribution "The ski resort closes: what de-growth feels like? A case study from lower Austria."
- Tereza Kubalova and Petr Stumpf for their contribution "Exploring visitor satisfaction in a cultural heritage tourism destination: the role of tangible and intangible satisfiers."
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.
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.
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.
Publication
New Challenges for Tourism Promotion
«Tackling High Competition and Multimedia Changes», Euro 29.95