Urban Planning and Tourism Consumption: 160 Years for the Ringstraße in (1857-2017)

November 20-23, 2016 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Conference Participants

Ruth Abraham The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email protected]

Ruth Abraham is a graduate student in the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She began her career as an independent producer of cultural events and her curiosity led her into asking questions concerning the connection between cultural activity and the city. In the last 3 years, she has been a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (JIIS), where most of her work dealt with mapping secular and Jewish- Orthodox cultural activity in Jerusalem. In addition, she currently works as an urban planner at “Ran Wolf – Urban Planning and Project Management” company, where most of the projects she is involved in focus on planning of public buildings, venues and public spaces, in various cities in Israel. Her research interests focus on regional issues related to society and urban culture. The topic of her Master’s thesis was “Urban Squatting – independent social and cultural activities in vacant spaces in Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Vienna". Next year she will be starting her PhD studies at the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gertrud Alirani Mid-Sweden University [email protected]

Gertrud Alirani is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Mid-Sweden University. Her doctoral research project focuses on environmental policy integration in processes of urban development. More specifically she is interested in how and why environmental considerations are integrated and handled as a political issue at the local level with multiple goals and involving actors from both public and private as well as multiple levels of governance.

2 Thiago Allis Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil [email protected]

Thiago Allis is a BSc in Tourism (2004), Master in Latin American Integration (2006) and PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (2012) at University of São Paulo (USP). Currently holds a position on Leisure and Tourism at School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH), at University of São Paulo. In 2012, Allis was an invited lecturer at the East Timor National University (UNTL). Currentlly, he is in charge of the research project “Territorial Dynamics of Tourist Flows in Urban Space”, funded by the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq). Expertise areas: urban tourism, regional and urban planning, tourism mobilities.

Mădălina-Teodora Andrei Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania [email protected]

Mădălina-Teodora Andrei is a senior lecturer at Faculty of Engineering, Informatics and Geography at the Spiru Haret University (1998 - present). She is a specialist in human and economic geography, master / magister in "Modeling of Rural and Urban Systems ", doctor on economic geography with thesis title "The Danube Valley between Giurgiu and Braila - human and economic geography study." She attended postgraduate: trainer, expert in e-learning (EU - Fe-cone e-Learning Project), expert- trainer in tourism (HORECA, NH University – Spain, Orendi Academy - Germany), project manager (National Institute of Administration) quality system manager (HRD / 86 / 1.2 / S / 62249, European quality in Higher Education), EU Strategy for Danube Region expert. Responsibilities and functions: Chancellor, a member of the Faculty Council, member of the University Senate, responsible for Communication, responsible Erasmus programme. She is a member of international professional organizations (International Geography Union, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, Mountain Research Initiative), president and founding member of the Professional Association of Geography, Ecology and Tourism. She has coordinated and participated in numerous national and international research projects, but also projects from European funds. Author and co-author of 8 books and university courses, 80 articles (39 ISI and IDB) published in the country and abroad. Is the event organizer of international scientific and Managing Editor of a journal published Addleton Academics Publishers, New York.

3 Salvador Anton Clavé Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia, Spain [email protected]

Salvador Anton Clavé is a Full Professor of Regional Geographical Analysis at the Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia (Spain) and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Institute of Tourism Studies at the George Washington University (USA). He currently serves as Director of the Doctoral Program in Tourism and Leisure at the Rovira i Virgili University where he is also the Principal Researcher of the Research Group of Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies. He is the Director of Research at the Science and Technology Park for Tourism and Leisure of Catalonia. He has served as director/dean of the Tourism and Leisure School/Faculty of Tourism and Geography at the Rovira i Virgili University between 2002 and 2012. His research concentrates on analysis of the evolution of tourist destinations, urban and regional tourism planning, theme parks design, management, development and globalization, tourism and ICT and issues concerning tourism policies and local development from an evolutionary approach.

Narcís Bassols Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Colombia [email protected]

Narcís Bassols graduated in Modern Languages and Philosophy from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in 1992. He also holds a BA Degree in Hospitality Management from the Escola Superior d’Hoteleria I Turisme, Barcelona. He is currently a PhD student at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili. He is also a lecturer and researcher in tourism and hospitality management at the Universidad Autónoma del Caribe (UAC), Barranquilla, Colombia, where he teaches to undergrads tourism planning, tourism geography and information technologies applied to hospitality. He is also the coordinator for lifelong learning and consultancy within his Programme. His research interests include spatial tourist behavior, destination marketing and built heritage management. He is currently carrying out research about these topics in Latin American historic cities, especially in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

4 Tatjana Boshkov Goce Delčev University of Štip, Macedonia [email protected] [email protected]

Tatjana Boshkov is a professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Business Logistics, Goce Delčev University of Štip, Macedonia. Her research areas are international finance, exchange rate policy, and international payment systems. Education background: During 2004-2008 she studies at the Faculty of Economics, St. Clement Ohridski University – Bitola (Department: Marketing management). She obtains MSc in 2010 (International Economy and Business) and in 2011, Boshkov started her PhD and finished it in 2014. Boshkov is a visiting researcher in Sparkasse Bank in Skopje, training at NBRM; member of the board of editors of the journal Asian Economic and Financial Review; member of the scientific committee in UDECOM / LIMEN 2015, 2016; and coordinator of a project for students training in Sparkasse Bank (Macedonia and abroad). Boshkov is an author of more than 45 papers published in international journals. She has published 6 books. Boshkov participates in projects financed by the EC.

Kobi Cohen-Hattab Bar Ilan University, Israel [email protected]

Kobi Cohen-Hattab is a Senior lecturer at the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University. His Ph. D. thesis from the Hebrew University examined the development of tourism infrastructure in Jerusalem during the British rule (1917-1948). He conducted his post-doctoral research at the department of geography, York University, Toronto (2001-2002). He published a book entitled: 'Tour the Land - Tourism in Palestine during the British Mandate Period(1917-1948)', Yad Ben- Zvi, Jerusalem 2006 (Hebrew) and coauthor book with Prof. Noam Shoval entitled: 'Tourism, Religion and Pilgrimage in Jerusalem', Routledge 2014. His main research interests are historical-geography of tourism, tourism in historical towns, the development of seaside resorts and the relationships between Zionism and the Sea.

5 Noga Collins-Kreiner University of Haifa, Israel [email protected]

Noga Collins-Kreiner is a Professor (PhD) in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, the Head of the Haifa and Galilee Research Institute and the Vice- President of the Israeli Geographical Association (IGA). Her main research interests are: Pilgrimage, Heritage, Hiking and Tourism Development and Management. She is also a resource editor of the “Annals of Tourism Research” and published many papers on the topics of tourism and Human Geography. She is also a consultant of the development plan for the area of the Sea of Galilee and involved in a few projects, such as: planning tourism in National Reserves; development of Christian and Jewish religious sites in Israel; and the Israel National Trail.

Valeria Croce The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email protected]

Valeria Croce is an analyst specialized in international tourism. Throughout her career, Valeria gained extensive experience in devising research programmes, managing projects, and disseminating results to different target audiences, ranging from governments, international media and the public at large. Valeria predominantly worked in multi-cultural, international, public-oriented environments. Over the past decade, Valeria collaborated with academic institutions, international organizations, among which the UN World Tourism Organization, and European Institutions. Valeria is currently head of research for the Eurail Group, an organization dedicated to the marketing and management of a portfolio of pan-European train passes marketed since 1959. She is also a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the Vienna University of Business Administration. Valeria frequently delivers keynotes and presentations at international events, and guest lectures at universities. She has experience as lecturer and as vocational trainer.

6 Monika De Frantz monikadefrantz.wordpress.com/ [email protected]

Monika De Frantz works on politics and internationalisation of social and economic space and democratic legitimacy, e.g. urban cultures, regional economy, international development, European governance and globalisation. She works as a Research Expert, Academic Author and Policy Consultant to the EU Commission, universities, governments, think tanks, news media and research agencies in Austria and internationally. With a PhD from the European University Institute EUI Florence, she has held academic positions at the University of Chicago, University of New Orleans, London School of Economics, , Bauhaus-University Weimar, Humboldt University Berlin and the EUI Florence. She has published more than 90 academic papers, media articles and policy reports. Her book ‘Capital City Cultures’ narrates European state-transformation from the perspective of culture-led urban development in Vienna and Berlin. Based on her research in Europe, US and Asia, she currently works on her next book on comparative theories of urban politics and cultural globalisation (to be published with Palgrave Macmillan, UK/US). Born and resident in Vienna, she has lived and worked in more than ten major world cities and travelled extensively – a cosmopolitan experience reflected in her research, teaching and policy consulting.

Corinna Del Bianco Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation – International Institute Life Beyond Tourism [email protected] [email protected]

Corinna Del Bianco, Florence 1986, graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano with the thesis Jardim Filhos da Terra is now PhD student at the Politecnico di Milano (Pianificazione Architettonica Urbana e degli Interni). Board member of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation and member of the scientific committee of the International Institute Life Beyond Tourism. ICOMOS (International Council On Monuments and Sites) member since 2010. National referent and scientific coordinator for the Youth Forum of the 2014 Symposium “Heritage and Landscape as Human Values”, coordinator of the Florence Youth & Heritage Festival – official side event for youth of the GA. Since 2009 she has worked with a variety of national and international architectural studios (CROS Architecture – Paris, MDU Architetti – Prato, Stefano Gambacciani Architetto – Florence, Stefano Boeri Architetti – Milan, Buro-Ole Scheeren – Beijing). She has lectured and presented at numberous cultural institutions and organizations (Associação Mutirão do Povres - San Paolo, Politecnico di Milano, Hong Kong University, Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation’s International Workshop – Florence, Josai International University and Toyo University - Tokyo, Azerbaijian University of Architecture and Construction - Baku, ETOA European Tourism Association - London).

7 She wrote and curated several articles and books on the two topics on which she is working: travel, with Life Beyond Tourism and houses typologies in spontaneous urban contexts, both studied within the urban context as strategies for the sustainable development.

Darko Dimitrovski University in Kragujevac, Serbia [email protected]

Darko Dimitrovski is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism at the University in Kragujevac, Serbia. He received his MSc in Hotel Management from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He holds Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Belgrade. He has published several papers focused on tourism and hotel management in leading international tourism journals. He is also active member of few international associations. His research interest is largely focused on special interest tourism.

Daniel R. Fesenmaier University of Florida, USA [email protected]

Daniel R. Fesenmaier is Professor and Director of the Eric Friedheim Tourism Institute (EFTI) and the National Laboratory for Tourism & eCommerce, Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida. Dr. Fesenmaier is author, co-author and co-editor of several books focusing on information technology and tourism marketing including Tourism Information Technology, Foundations of Tourism Design and Analytics in Tourism Design. He is co-founding editor of Tourism Analysis; past Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Technology and Tourism and editor of the Foundations in Tourism Research Series, Journal of Travel Research. Dr. Fesenmaier is a Fellow, International Academy for the Study of Tourism and has received awards for excellence in research including the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Lifetime Achievement Award, Hannes Werthner Tourism and Technology Lifetime Achievement Award (IFITT), The Michael D. Olsen Research Award (University of Delaware) and the Medal of Exceptional Scholarly Achievement (CPTHL).

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Ingeborg Fiala-Fürst Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic [email protected]

Ingeborg Fiala-Fürst is a literary scholar and historian. Studied German and Moravian literature in Olomouc, emigrated after studying in the FRG, worked at the “Arbeitsstelle für Robert-Musil- Forschung” in Saarbrücken and was a guest lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt. After returning from exile in 1992, an assistant professor and later full professor (Habilitation 1998) in the Department of German Studies of the Faculty of Palacky University. Co-founder of the “Center for German Moravian literature” within the department (1997). In 2004 she founded the Institute of Jewish Studies (“Kurt and Ursula Schubert Center for Judaic Studies”). Researches and publishes on topics: Prague German literature, German literature from Moravia, literary Expressionism, German Jewish literature, and edits the books series „Beiträge zur deutschmährischen Literatur“, „poetica moraviae“ und „Judaica olomucensia”.

Aliza Fleischer Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email protected]

Aliza Fleischer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Management and the Head of the Hotel, Food Resources and Tourism Management Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA (1983). Areas of expertise: economics of tourism; rural tourism; economic value of agricultural landscape; economic value of open space; and regional and rural economic development.

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Tim Freytag Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany [email protected]

Tim Freytag is a professor of human geography at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research foci and teaching interests include European city tourism and urban studies.

Alon Gelbman Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel http://kinneret.academia.edu/AlonGelbman

Alon Gelbman is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel. He is a Cultural Geographer and his research interests include international tourism and geopolitical borders, tourism and peace, urban/rural tourism and hosts-guests relationships. His research papers published in leading scientific journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Geographies and Current Issues in Tourism. Dr. Gelbman is also a reviewer for various scientific journals in the field of tourism, he has conducted empirical field studies, developed theories, published more than 30 articles in scientific journals and book chapters, presented at more than 50 international conferences, taught, and received invitations regularly to speak at conferences and seminars abroad. A major context of his research in the tourism area is the developing of a theoretical foundation for tourism-geopolitical border relations between countries around the world and developing global models and theories about it, with significant connections to the topic of tourism and peace.

10 Emanuele Giordano Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, France [email protected]

Emanuele Giordano is a PhD student at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III. His research centers on the interplays between nightlife, touristification and gentrification in Southern European cities and on the evolution of practices of illumination with an emphasis on the use of illumination as a tool for tourist development. [email protected]

Ulrich Gunter MODUL University Vienna, Austria [email protected]

Ulrich Gunter is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Tourism and Service Management. He holds a Diplom (roughly equivalent to MSc) in Economics from the University of Regensburg (2007, study program within the Elite Network of Bavaria), a PhD in Economics from the University of Vienna (2010, full scholarship from the University of Vienna as "Kollegassistent" for the structured PhD program Issues in the Global Economy: Dynamics, Governance, and Information), as well as an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Vienna (2015). In 2006, he was a visiting undergraduate student at Santa Clara University. Ulrich's research interest is in applied econometrics, with a particular focus on time-series analysis (including forecasting) and panel-data analysis. His primary fields of thematic interest are the economics of tourism and sustainability. His secondary fields include macroeconomics, monetary policy, banking, and financial stability. Ulrich was a visiting researcher at the University of Surrey (November 2013) and at the University of Sao Paulo (July to September 2014), where he concluded a Brazilian Pós-Doutorado. Ulrich is founding co-editor of the MODUL University Working Paper Series (together with H. Goldstein). In addition, he is a member of the University Senate and the chair of the Merit Scholarship Committee at MODUL University Vienna. He acts as a Liaison Officer for outgoing exchange students to the University of Florida and the University of Surrey. Ulrich is a member of the International Association for Tourism Economics (IATE) and the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF).

11 Shlomit Hon-Snir The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel [email protected]

Shlomit Hon-Snir holds a PhD in Economics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and University of Haifa. She is a faculty member in the Economics and Management department at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel. Her research interests are Game Theory, Auction Theory, Learning, Industrial Organization, Information, Public Economic Theory, Applied Finance, Internet Economics and e-Services. She has published articles in international peer reviewed journals on these topics. Shlomit teaches microeconomics courses, game-theory courses, Introduction to Econometrics, as well as Internet Economics Seminar.

Yechezkel (Hezi) Israeli Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel [email protected]

Yechezkel (Hezi) Israeli is a faculty member of the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management at the Kinneret. He is an expert in tourism development and management, in transportation planning, and in the unique evolving field of the interrelations between tourism and transportation. His background covers the fields of management, transportation planning, and tourism. Within these topics, he has been active in teaching, researching and implementing planning projects in Israel and worldwide. He has a lot of experience working on theoretical and applied researches through several research institutes in Israel and overseas including EU research projects in the fields of transportation, logistics, and tourism. Besides his academic work, Prof. Israeli contributed his skills in planning significant projects in Israel, and in assisting developing and emerging countries in applied researches, planning projects, and training through international organizations. In his teaching courses and publications, Prof. Israeli combines theoretical aspects with real examples from his vast experience.

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Csilla Jandala Edutus College, Budapest, Hungary [email protected]

Csilla Jandala is rector of Edutus College, responsible for the science and international contacts, and also head of tourism department. It is due to her that Edutus College has become an affiliate member of UNWTO, where she is member of the Experts’ Panel. During the last 35 years she took the opportunity to start tourism programs not only in state-owned but also in private universities and she educated more than 3800 students. Although she is involved in higher education, in 1996/97 she was the founder and director of the research and development department of the Hungarian Tourism Corporation, and she was also one of the founders of the Association of Hungarian Tourism Consultants (between 2014- 2016 she was the president), she is chairing the Controlling Committee of the National Association of Tourism and Hospitality Employers. Dr Jandala is representing the Edutus College in UNWTO and in the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Hungary. She is a member of AIEST. Due to her activities Dr. Jandala had got the award “Tourism Professor of the Year 2008” given by the Hungarian Scientifique Management Society and she was nominated for UNWTO’s Ulysses Prize for Excellence and Dissemination of Knowledge (in 2012 and 2014) by the Ministry of National Economics. [email protected]

Bálint Kádár Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary [email protected]

Bálint Kádár is an architect, curator and urban scholar born in 1977 in Budapest. He received an MSc in Architecture degree in 2003 with diploma prize from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, wherein 2015 he defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Pedestrian Space Usage of Tourist-Historic Cities – Comparing the Tourist Space Systems of Vienna and Prague to Budapest”. He is doing urban research and teaching in the BSc and MSc programmes as assistant professor at the department of Urban Planning and Design at BME. His research focuses on the spatial development of urban tourism in European cities, and on the usage of user generated digital content in urban research. He also teaches the rehabilitation of historic urban centers, tactical urbanism and participatory design. He is activist in architectural NGOs since 2000, organizing conferences, workshops and social events. Since 2014 he is the president of Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK). He also runs his architecture and urban design studio, involved in works from building design to urban and tourism development concepts.

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Heidi Karst University of Waterloo, Canada [email protected]

Heidi Karst is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her current research focuses on ecotourism and development initiatives in Bhutanese protected areas. Her research interests include sustainable tourism, cultural heritage, and civic engagement and empowerment.

Norbert Kettner Vienna Tourist Board, Austria https://b2b.wien.info/en/viennatourism/contact/managing-director

Norbert Kettner was born in 1967 and grew up in Tirol. He has been the Vienna Tourist Board’s Director since September 1, 2007. Prior to this (from September 2003), he was founding managing director of departure wirtschaft, kunst und kultur GmbH, Austria’s first business promotion institution for the creative industries. From August 1993 till August 2003, Norbert Kettner was spokesman for the Executive City Councilor of Finance and Deputy Mayor of Vienna. He worked for him until 1999 in the Vienna health department, and then moved to the City of Vienna’s finance and economics policy department. From 2010, Norbert Kettner has been a member of the board of trustees of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF. He is a member of the supervisory board of Vienna City Marketing Agency, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna’s biggest exhibition space for contemporary art, and a member of the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Advisory Board of MODUL University Vienna. From 1997 to 2007 he belonged to the board of directors of the Life Ball, Europe’s biggest AIDS charity event.

Shaul Krakover Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel [email protected]

Shaul Krakover is a professor of geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Development at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel since 1982. He holds B.A degrees in geography and economics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and M.A. degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in urban geography. He received his PhD in urban and regional development from the department of geography at the University of Maryland at College Park (1982), and gained a post-doctoral fellowship at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 1986-7.

14 During his academic career he served as Dean of Ben-Gurion University at Eilat (2006-2010), as chairman of the department of Geography and Environmental Development in Beer Sheva for 6 years, and as the President of the Association of Israeli Geographers (2000-2002). He was invited to teach as visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (1999), the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil (2004), and Central Florida University, Orlando, USA (2005). Currently he is chairman of the Dead Sea and Arava research center in Israel and president of Hemdat HaDaron, an academic college for Education. His fields of specialization cover urban and regional development and tourism studies. He has published in these fields more than 100 publications and took part as co-author or co-editor in the publication of the following books: The Atlas of the Negev (1986), Industrial Geography of Israel (1992), Tourism in Frontier Areas (2002), and Global Development in a Localized City (2005). Professor Krakover was a senior partner in several large scale planning projects such as Development Plan for Beer Sheva (1989), Master Plan for the city of Ashqeulon (1991), and more. Professor Krakover is editor in the international journal Tourism Geographies, editor-in-chief of the Hebrew e-journal the Geo-Network, and board member of 5 other academic journals.

Costin Lianu Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania [email protected]

Costin Lianu is General Director USH Pro Business since 2015. USH Pro Business is a specialized center dedicated to the entrepreneurial environment activities of Spiru Haret University, created based on his own vision in order to support businesses and to provide solutions of competitiveness through the lenses of an university hub. He is also lecturer in marketing and international trade in University Spiru Haret Bucharest and associated Professor in international trade, Internationalization, markets access and branding at the University of Bucharest, UNESCO Department, Romania. He is representing the private associations of the National Export Council of Romania and is a founding member of the Romanian Association of Clusters (“Clustero”), coordinating also under the auspices of USH ProBusiness the Romanian Export Development Network. Recently he was appointed Vice Chairmen of Bio Romania, the association of organic farmers in Romania. He is also coordinating the management units of two Romanian clusters in bio food and technologies: Bio Danubius Tulcea and Bio Tech Valea Prahovei. Former General Director, Export Development, in the Ministry of Economy, he initiated and contributed to the establishment of the National Export Council in Romania and coordinated elaboration and implementation of three national export strategies during 2004-2015 on behalf of the Export Council . The research interests include international trade, international aid, mainly trade- related, management of export, internationalization and branding strategies at level of companies, regions, clusters and nations. Writer of books and articles on export management strategies, branding, international trade and marketing. Coordinator of priority area competitiveness in the Danube Strategy and one of the initiators of European Gateway Project, for promoting Romania as trade and logistical hub.

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Christine Lim Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [email protected]

Christine Lim is an Associate Professor at the Division of Marketing & International Business, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Christine teaches Revenue Management in the Nanyang Business School. Her research interests and expertise are in the area of tourism management, demand modeling and forecasting. She is a Fellow of the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight and a Resource Editor of the Annals of Tourism Research.

Hester Margreiter Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria [email protected]

Hester Margreiter studied History and Economics at the University of Innsbruck. After study visits to Vienna, Caracas, and New Orleans, as well as scientific field trips to Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Cuba, she graduated and spent an academic year as a Center Austria research fellow at the University of New Orleans. Now she is a scientific assistant at the Department of History at the University of Salzburg. Her dissertation project “Tourism and Urban Dynamics: Structural Effects of Emerging Mass Tourism in New Orleans (Louisiana) and Innsbruck (Tyrol)” aims to discuss the socioeconomic impact of early tourism on local populations. [email protected]

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Ezio Marra University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy [email protected]

Ezio Marra is Full Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he was Director of the degree programme in Tourism Sciences. He is a member of the scientific committee of the doctorate in Urban Studies of the University of Milano-Bicocca and its international network, including LSE, Science Po and Humboldt Universität. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of Essex, UK; the Horace H. Rackam’ School of Graduate Studies; the International Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor; With Elisabetta Ruspini, he edited Altri turismi. Viaggi, esperienze, emozioni, Milano 2010, and with Manuela De Carlo, Cultura, territorio e turismo, Milano 2012, and OPCS (Office of Population Censuses ans Surveys) St. Catherine’s House, London. His research concerns leisure activities in urban areas, urban tourism and policies and government issues in metropolitan areas. With Elisabetta Ruspini, he edited Altri turismi. Viaggi, esperienze, emozioni, Milano 2010, and with Manuela De Carlo, Cultura, territorio e turismo, Milano 2012. [email protected]

Oswin Maurer Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy [email protected]

Oswin Maurer is an innovative academic with extensive international experience in key roles such as the implementation of internationally-accredited undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programmes. His areas of interest and expertise include strategic market management, international business, food industry management, internationalisation, and tourism management/economics. Currently, he is Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management at unibz. Oswin has authored/co-authored a wide range of publications and has been instrumental in designing and implementing educational projects for senior management and government officials in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. He has also been key in the development of various international and national research programmes on internationalisation, competitiveness and demographic change. In addition, he is a much sought-after advisor and research consultant and is a key contributor in the building and leadership of an international research network, the Competence Centre in Tourism Management and Tourism Economics (TOMTE). TOMTE organises conferences and seminars every year, including the Consumer Behaviour in Tourism Symposium (CBTS) which takes place annually since 2008 in Brunico.

17 Marxiano Melotti University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy [email protected]

Marxiano Melotti works on tourism and cultural heritage in the contemporary society and on the use of the past in modern and post-modern culture. Among his main interests there are the relationships between heritage and the new international migration; theming and spreading of a new global heritage; living history and new practices of cultural and archaeological tourism. He teaches Urban Culture and Cultural Events at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Sociology of Education – Museums, Tourism and Cultural Heritage at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome. He was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Tampere, Viseu and Gandia and lecturer of Archaeological Tourism, Underwater Tourism, Tourism and Heritage (University of Milano-Bicocca), Cultural Heritage (SUM), Heritage Tourism (University of Catania) and Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (Nettuno University Network). He was also coordinator of the international programme on European Cultural Heritage at SUM University, Florence. As Secretary General of the SUM Foundation he organized cultural events on heritage, tourism and Italian culture in Italy, USA and Australia. He is involved in the organization of archaeological and virtual exhibitions. He is presently involved in research activities on Ostia (University of Tampere); tourism and carnivals (International Research Center on Carnivals); urban tourism (LIST - International Laboratory of Sciences of Tourism, University of Milano-Bicocca); tourism and cultural change (MahRe Center, Bicocca- Maldives). Among his books: Mediterraneo tra mito e turismo (Milan, 2008); The Plastic Venuses. Archaeological Tourism and Post-Modern Society (Newcastle, 2011); Mobility and Hospitable Cities (Newcastle, in press).

Nuria Morère Molinero Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain [email protected]

Nuria Morère Molinero is a Professor in Ancient History at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain). She is a member of the Research Group Methaodos (Sociology Applied to Communication and Culture (www.methaodos.org/lineas-de-investigacion/sociologia-comunicacion-cultura). She has been involved with tourism and cultural tourism from teaching and from her research. She was the Director of graduate courses for Tourist Information (1998), Tourism Management (2002-2005), and Deputy Dean since 2003 (2003-2005; 2010-2012). Her researches are based on the links between Heritage-History and Tourism: Heritage Attractions (Cultural Itineraries, Archaeological Sites) and History of Travel and Tourism. She is integrating the concept of past and process into the analysis of Tourism. Since 2011, she is a member of the UNESCO-UNITWIN Academic Network Sorbonne, Paris 1 on Cultural Tourism and Development and has participated as an expert in conferences and workshops organized by the Network.

18 Dr. Johannes Novy Cardiff University, UK [email protected]

Johannes Novy is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Spatial Planning in the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University (UK). He studied urban planning and urban studies in Germany, Italy and the United States and holds a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University, New York. An associate member of the Berlin-based Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS), Johannes divides his time between the UK and Germany and researches, teaches, writes and consults on a wide range of issues related to urban development, planning theory as well as contemporary patterns of urban tourism and leisure consumption. His latest publication is an co-edited book titled Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City (Routledge 2016).

Evangelia Petridou Mid-Sweden University [email protected]

Evangelia Petridou is a doctoral candidate in political science at Mid-Sweden University with a background in public administration. Her research interests include theories of the policy process, political entrepreneurship and urban governance. Her substantive policy area interests include economic development, crisis management and territorial cohesion with a special interest in European peripheral areas. She has published in the Policy Studies Journal (2014) as well as edited, with Inga Narbutaité-Aflaki and Lee Miles, a volume titled Entrepreneurship in the Polis: Understanding Political Entrepreneurship (Ashgate, 2015).

19 Yael Ram Ashkelon Academic College, Israel [email protected]

Yael Ram is a senior lecturer at the Department of Tourism Studies at Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. Yael has a PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2011), specializing in marketing and tourism. She earned her BA (Cum Laude) in psychology and political science (1995) and an M.BA (1998) in marketing, both from Tel-Aviv University. Her research interests focus on person – environment relations. She studies sustainable (and unsustainable) consumer behaviours and mobilities, cultural ecosystem services, place-driven emotions and adaptation barriers of "green" and responsible practices.

Tamara Rátz Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Székesfehérvár- Budapest, Hungary [email protected]

Tamara Rátz is Professor of Tourism, and Director of the Institute of Tourism and Business Studies at Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Székesfehérvár – Budapest, Hungary. She has extensive experience in teaching abroad: in addition to being Visiting Professor at Karaganda Economic University of Kazpotrebsoyuz, Kazakhstan between 2011-2014, Visiting Lecturer at HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland between 1995 and 2011, and Course Director at ITI, Norway in 2001-2002, she has taught various tourism-related courses in the DPRK, the Netherlands, Poland, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, Romania, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Turkey. She is the author or co-author of more than 180 publications on tourism, including a number of books on the impacts of tourism, attraction and visitor management, and health tourism and quality of life. Her current research interests include cultural and heritage tourism development, and creativity and innovation in niche tourism development.

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Amos S. Ron Ashkelon Academic College, Israel [email protected]

Amos S. Ron is a senior lecturer and department head at the Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. His PhD is in Cultural Geography (Hebrew University). His my main research interests are three: tourism & leisure studies, cultural geography, and geography of religions. His interests in tourism & leisure research focus on human-cultural aspects, especially spiritual and religious tourism, pilgrimage, sacred site management, heritage tourism and the sociology of tourism and leisure. His research in cultural geography focuses on landscape interpretation, spatial commemoration, and the relationship between landscape and identity. His research in geography of religions focuses on the spatial aspects of pilgrimage spaces, and on religious themed environments.

Elisabetta Ruspini University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy [email protected]

Elisabetta Ruspini is Senior Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is President of the BSC Course STCL (Tourism Sciences and Local Community Studies), University of Milano-Bicocca. She has extensive teaching and research experience on gender and generational issues. Among her recent publications: Corbisiero F. and Ruspini E. (eds.), Sociologia del Futuro. Studiare la Società del XXI Secolo (The Sociology of the Future), Padova, CEDAM, 2016; Crespi I. and Ruspini E. (eds.), Balancing Work and Family in a Changing Society. The Fathers’ Perspective, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. [email protected]

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Tibor Sándor Edutus College, Budapest, Hungary [email protected]

Tibor Sándor earned his second certificate, a history teaching education degree at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. In his private enterprise he prepared high school students for university entrance exams and helped them to make the most of their academic years for 20 years. Afterwards he worked as a research fellow in the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute. Dr. Sándor published two books about the dejewification of Hungarian film industry during the 1930s and 40s. In 2002 he defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Noblemen” and “Noblewomen” in Hungarian Feature Films of the 1930s and 40s. He worked at the University of Pannonia and since 2002 he has been a college professor at Edutus College. His research interests include the history of travel and tourism, the relationship between arts (literature and film) and tourism and heritage tourism in Budapest. His last publication is Ancient travels – ancient travelers (Corvina Publishing House, Budapest, 2012). The most important interdisciplinary question he is interested in: how to transcend what Seneca once quoted: “Socrates is reported to have replied, when a certain person complained of having received no benefit from his travels: “It serves you right! You travelled in your own company.” In other words, it is the problem of traveling and its transforming nature which affects our characters. [email protected]

Joshua Schmidt Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Israel [email protected]

Joshua Schmidt is an ethnographer and a social researcher at the Ramon branch of the Dead Sea and Arava Science Center under the joint auspices of the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His multidisciplinary research interests include contemporary Israeli popular and peripheral culture, ethno-linguistics, the sociology of tourism, ethnography, cultural shift, heritage management and conservation and disaster management, response and recovery. Schmidt is currently conducting ethnographic research projects on the socio-economic impacts of tourism and government led development in southern Israel, archeological heritage conservation and tourism management, national emergency preparation networks and continuity and change among the Negev Bedouin. Schmidt has recently published articles on tourism development in peripheral Israel, the Bedouin phase of Negev rock art and the politics of multi-ethnic contemporary Israeli youth culture.

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Liron Shalom University of Haifa, Israel [email protected]

Liron Shalom is an MA graduate in Tourism Management and Planning, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa. In the past 7 years, she worked in the tourism industry as tour operator for incoming and outgoing tourism. Nowadays she serves as an expert and advisor for a large travel group in the development of web tools for tourists. Ms. Shalom has a large experience in analyzing tourist patterns of various market segments.

Noam Shoval The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email protected]

Noam Shoval is a Full Professor at the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since December 2015 he is the President of the Israeli Geographical Association. Prof. Shoval was appointed in November 2015 as the Director of the European Forum at the Hebrew University, the Director of the Center for Austrian Studies, and the Head of the DAAD Center for German Studies. Prof. Shoval completed his Ph.D. at The Hebrew University (2000) and conducted post-doctoral research at the Department of Geography, King’s College, University of London (2000–2001). He was (2007–2008) an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Department of Geography of the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He spent an academic year (2014-2015) as a visiting Professor at the Center for Urban and Social Research at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Prof. Shoval's main research interests are urban geography and planning, urban tourism and the implementation of advanced tracking technologies in various areas of spatial research such as tourism, urban studies and medicine. Over the years he published over one hundred twenty scientific publications. Prof. Shoval has collaborated in several international research projects, for example: visitors' activities in Port Aventura Theme Park in the Costa Dorada of Spain, tourist time space activities Hong Kong, aging and cognitive decline in Germany and Israel and recently time space activities of cruise passengers in Palermo, Sicily. He led a large scale urban tourism planning project in the Tangshan hot springs resort town near Nanjing, China.

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Melanie Kay Smith Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary [email protected]

Melanie Kay Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality at Budapest Metropolitan University in Hungary, where she specialises in urban tourism, cultural tourism and health tourism. She completed her PhD at Greenwich University in London (UK) in the field of urban regeneration and cultural planning. Her sixty or more publications include Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies (Routledge, 2003, 2009, 2016), the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism (2013) and Ethnic and Minority Cultures as Tourist Attractions (Channel View, 2015). She has been an invited Keynote Speaker at many international conferences, and has undertaken consultancy work in a range of countries, including for ETC and UNWTO. She was also Chair of ATLAS (the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education) for seven years, which has membership institutions in more than 75 countries. [email protected]

Danielle Spera The Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria http://www.jmw.at/

Danielle Spera was appointed Director of the Jewish Museum Vienna in 2010. From 1978 till 2010 she worked as a journalist, correspondent, reporter, and anchorwoman at ORF-TV Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation. She is the author of numerous books and articles on contemporary art, Jewish topics, and for the magazine NU. Since 2013 she serves as President of ICOM Austria as well as a member of the council of the Medical University Innsbruck/Austria. For the Jewish Museum Vienna she curated several exhibitions including Jewish Geniuses. Warhol’s Jews (2012, together with Astrid Peterle), A Good Day. Installation Andrew M. Mezvinsky (2013), and The Südbahnhotel – The Faded Days of the Magic Mountain. Photographs by Yvonne Oswald (2014), Lessing presents Lessing (2015).

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Sharon Teitler-Regev The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel [email protected]

Sharon Teitler Regev holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Haifa. She has a master of science in economics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Master of Science in Hotel administration from the University of Las Vegas. She is a faculty member in the Economics and Management department at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel. Her current research interests are the economics of tourism, factors effecting tourism like terror or epidemics and Behavioral economics. She has published articles in international peer reviewed journals on these topics.

Adi Weidenfeld Middlesex University, London, UK [email protected]

Adi Weidenfeld is a senior lecturer in tourism management at the Business School, Middlesex University, London, UK and a visiting researcher at Hanken School of Economics in Vaasa, Finland. Adi has worked on his 2 year Marie Curie Intra-European postdoctoral Fellowship at Hanken School of Economics, Finland and completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Exeter after graduating a Masters in European Property and Development Planning at University College London. His main interests include visitor attraction management, tourism development planning and policies, tourism clusters, knowledge transfer and innovation in tourism and tourism cross border region.

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Perla María Villa Jiménez Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico [email protected]

Perla Villa Maria Jimenez is a PhD student in Administration Sciences and Development Management at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Universidad Veracruzana. Her research focuses on knowledge management, creation and innovation line. Her dissertation research is oriented to the tourism sector. She graduated in Tourism Business Administration and has a master degree in Marketing and Advertising from the Cristóbal Colón University, where she worked as a teacher for 9 years. She has developed professionally in the hotel sector in the area of sales and public relations, in the restaurants industry and in managing a residential complex.

Serena Volo Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy [email protected]

Serena Volo is Assistant Professor of Tourism Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She holds the national habilitation as Associate Professor in Italy since 2013. She obtained her PhD in Tourism Marketing in 2002 at the Department of Quantitative Methods for the Human Sciences, University of Palermo (Italy) and was visiting scholar at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Faculty of Food and Tourism, Dublin (Ireland). She was also a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Rosen School of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, Orlando, (Florida, USA). Her research interests include consumer behavior, tourism innovation, tourism statistics, second-home tourism and destination competitiveness.

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Shoshi Waksman Israel [email protected]

Shoshi Waksman is an independent researcher. Her main interests are social and cognitive aspects of literacy and especially multi-modality in the process of meaning construction. Her focus is in the interactions between language, space, art and visual culture. More specifically her research deals with way the linguistic / multimodal landscape both reflects and constructs social power relations using variety of representational resources.

Karl Wöber MODUL University Vienna, Austria [email protected]

Karl Wöber, born 1964 in Vienna, Austria, is Full Professor and Founding President of MODUL University Vienna. He is the elected chairman of the Austrian Private University Conference. At MU Vienna he is also the Dean of the Professional School which includes the MBA degree and the seminar (certificate) program. Karl acquired his PhD from the Vienna University of Economics and Business where he became Associate Professor and Deputy Department Head at the Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies in 2000. In 1997, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Department of Leisure Studies. Since 2005, he is a Visiting Senior Fellow of the School of Management at the University of Surrey (UK), and a Senior Fellow of the National Laboratory of Tourism and eCommerce at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). His main research activities are in the fields of computer support in tourism and hospitality marketing, decision support systems, multivariate methods and strategic planning. Karl Wöber is also Technical Advisor to European Cities Marketing and the European Travel Commission for many years.

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