Tourist destinations at a crossroads
Space, community, products, politics and evolutionary processes in the age of transitions
Vila-seca, Catalonia, Spain
June 17-20, 2025
This conference aims at hosting wide-ranging scientific contributions and debates on the way tourist destinations, its geographies, products, communities and policy approaches have evolved and could evolve under the pull of global and local change drivers and how they need to adapt to such changes.
It means to address such questions as:
- How do we analyse and make sense of tourist places as dynamic, evolving entities?
- How organisational and production processes shaping destination evolution adapt to global change drivers?
- What is the role of local communities of residents, workers and entrepreneurs, in confronting, adapting to or facilitating change?
- How are politics and policies of tourism promotion and development constructed between different scales and agencies? How do we understand and qualify destination resilience?
- What is the role of new technologies and digital worlds in bringing about more sustainable tourism and more resilient destinations?
- What has changed in post-pandemic tourism mobilities, and how does that challenge or accommodate the need for sustainability transitions?
How are changes in tourism mobilities and spatial behaviour of visitors at and towards destinations influencing destination development?
The deadline for Abstract Submission is January 15th 2025
Download the full programme here https://atlas-euro.org/.2025-6-vila-seca/
