Thursday 12th December 2019 8:30-8:55 DELIVERY OF CREDENTIALS AUDITORIUM HALL 9:00-9:40 OPENING SESSION KEYNOTE LECTURE: IS THE CARIBBEAN A TOURIST COMPETITOR? 9:45-10:15 Mr. Jorge Luis Olivarez Novalez - Minister-Counsellor of the Directorate-General for Political Coordination (Mexico) TOURISM TRENDS - PERSPECTIVES FOR 2020 10:15-11:00 Mr. Rolf Freitag - CEO IPK International Presenter: Mr. Antonio Garzón - Founder and Managing Partner of Nutrihotel 11:00-11:30 BREAK ROUND TABLE: PERSPECTIVES PROVIDED THE LOSS OF AIRLINE SEATS Mr. Rafael Gallego Nadal - President of the Spanish Confederation of Travel Agencies (CEAV) Ms. Belén González Del Val Subirats - Head of the Visas and Connectivity Department – Spanish 11:30-12:45 Tourist Office Mr. Manuel Porrás Romero - Chair of the Tourist Strategy Agency of the Balearic Islands (AETIB) Mr. Nicolás Villalobos - Managing Director of Be Cordial Hotels & Resorts Moderator: Mr. Pablo Llinares - Managing Director of the Gran Canaria Tourism Board TRENDS FOR WELLNESS TOURISM 12:45-13:30 Mr. Franz Linser - Founder and CEO of Hospitality Linser Hospitality GmbH Presenter: Mr. Sebastián Sansó - Development Corporate Manager of St. Roque Hospitals (Gran Canaria) and General Manager of St. Roque Hospitals in Maspalomas PRESENTATION OF RISCO CAÍDO AND THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF THE SACRED 13:30-14:00 MOUNTAINS OF GRAN CANARIA AS UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE 14:00-16:30 BREAK STARTING TIME 11:15 EXPOMELONERAS TERRACE GASTROFORUM - Coordinator: Mr. FRANCISCO ALMEIDA OSSA Several demonstration workshops shall be carried out by different businesses and training centres AUDITORIUM HALL CANARY ISLANDS AND SENEGAL: TARINGA COOKING 16:30 Mr. Fall Babuki - Dakar, Senegal THE HALL. TRENDS AND INNOVATION 17:15 Mr. Julián Quintero - Frontera, Hierro TURISMO, LOCAL PRODUCTS AND INNOVATION 18:00 Mr. Pietro Epifani - Italia HALLS: GUAYADEQUE, BALOS AND ARIDANE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - THE TOURIST INDUSTRY FACING A CYCLE CHANGE 16:30-19:30 PRESENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS HALL: ZONZAMAS 16:30-19:30 WORKSHOP ON CIRCULAR ECONOMY Friday 13th December 2019 AUDITORIUM HALL ROUND TABLE: CIRCULAR ECONOMY, A NEW CHALLENGE FOR THE TOURIST INDUSTRY Mr. Geoffrey Lipman - Cofounder of the SUNx Programme (Strong Universal Network) and Chairman of ICTP (International Council of Tourist Partners) Mr. Nicola Cerantola - Founder of the Ecologing Project and expert on sustainable development 9:00-10:00 and entrepreneurship Mr. Jesper Manniche - Senior Researcher, PhD, at the Centre for Regional and Tourism Research (CRT) in the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm (Denmark) Ms. Eva Ruíz - Circular Tourism Content Coordinator at the Circular Economy Club Moderator: Ms. Marta Jacob - Full-time Professor of Applied Economics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears CONFERENCE ON CURRENT AFFAIRS: 10:00-10:30 THE ECONOMY IN A CROSSROADS: ARE THERE ANY REASONS FOR CONCERN? Mr. José Ramón Díez Guijarro - Director of the Bankia Studies Service ROUND TABLE: OVERTOURISM IN ISLAND DESTINATIONS Mr. Jafar Jafari - Founder and editor of the Annals of Tourism Research Mr. Pere Granados - Major of the Town of Salou (Catalonia, Spain) Mr. Yoel Mansfeld - Professor of Tourism Studies within the Department of Geography and 10:30-11:45 Environmental Studies by the Haifa University (Israel) Ms. Natalia Martínez Páramo - Head of the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), European Commission Mr. Harald Pechlaner - President of the International Association of Scientific Experts on Tourism EURAC AIEST Moderator: Mr. Antonio Garzón - Founder and Managing Partner of Nutrihotel 11:45-12:15 BREAK ROUND TABLE: THE PHENOMENON OF RESIDENTIAL SPACES AMONG TOURIST AREAS Mr. Carlos A. Bethencourt - Practicising lawyer and owner of the firm BG ABOGADOS Y CONSULTORES Mr. Rafael Molina Petit - Economist, Commercial Technician and State Economist Ms. Carmen Pérez Ontiveros - Professor of Civil Law in the University of Las Palmas of GC Mr. Moisés Simancas - Assistant Director of the Caja Canarias - Ashotel Tourism Professorship of 12:15-13:30 the University of La Laguna Mr. Tom Smulders - President of AEAT (Association of Tourist Accommodation Businesspeople of the Province of Las Palmas) Mr. José Suay Rincón - Counsellor of the Canary Advisory Council. Former Superior Judge of the Supreme Court Moderator: Ms. Margarita Maciá Hernández - Editor, writer and hostess in several TV and radio programmes ROUND TABLE: THE STUDENTS’ VISION: FUTURE OF TOURISM IN THE CANARY ISLANDS Mr. Fabián Martínez Sjølie - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Ms. Lorea Silvana Fernández Arce - CIFP San Cristóbal, Gran Canaria Ms. Ana Mª Gomáriz Rodrigo - Escuela Universitaria de Turismo de Lanzarote 13:30- 14:30 Ms. Alejandra Cadavid Bedoya - IES Faro Maspalomas, Gran Canaria Ms. María Tirso Pérez - Universidad de La Laguna Ms. Alicia Urdiales Sicilia - Hecansa, Gran Canaria Mr. Ilyas Bouhamidi - Universidad Ibn Zohr Moderator: Mr. Antonio González Molina - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 14:30 CLOSING SESSION .