TTRA-Europe News

Dr Aurkene Alzua Sorzabal (Ph.D) is the latest member of the TTRA Europe Board. She is Executive Director of the Centro de Investigación Cooperative en turismo nearby San Sebastian in Spain and replaces Arvid Flagestad of Norway whom we thank warmly for his contribution to the chapter over the past years. Welcome to the board Aurkene!

 

 

TTRA Europe Board member Frederic Dimanche conducted on April 14 a seminar at ESG - UQAM in Montreal for various event professionals from Quebec. The theme of the seminar was "Trends in Event Management and Marketing". In particular, the greening of events, experiential marketing, and mobile technology applications were discussed.

 

On Thursday February 28, TTRA Europe Board Member Rob Davidson spoke in Nice Sophia Antipolis at a conference organized by CERAM Business School's Center for Tourism Management on the following theme: "Environmental responsibility for business tourism organisations."  The other conference speaker, Dimitri de Andolenko, leads the Corporate Social Responsibility team for Société des Bains de Mer, the largest tourism company in Monaco (owner and operator of casinos, spas, hotels, restaurants).  For more information, consult www.ceramexpert.net or go straight to http://www.ceramexpert.net/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Cycle+Innovation+et+Connaissance+28+fev+08 

 

We welcome László Puczkó to the Board of TTRA Europe

 

Board meeting in Paris 9 February 2008 at 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Welcome!

 

Porvoo, Finland, 30 August 2007


Dear TTRA Europe Chapter Supporters

On 23-25 April we met in Nice for the annual European conference. It was a successful event that brought together 130 academics and practitioners from 20 European countries, USA, Canada, Australia, Asia and South Africa. Our thanks go to Frédéric Dimanche and his colleagues at CERAM Management School for hosting us in Nice.

During the conference also the European board convened. That meeting terminated Sheila Flanagan´s European Chapter presidency. Shortly after the meeting she was elected to the TTRA International board to strengthen the European views there. We are very happy for this, at the same time hoping that Sheila will find the time to liaise with the European board, too. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Sheila for her persistent work for the chapter over the past years.

The present board has the following members: Frédéric Dimanche (France), Arvid Flagestad (Norway), Isabelle Frochot (France), Ian Henderson (UK), and Rob Davidson (UK). I took over as president in Nice and will continue until spring 2009. Most of the work in the chapter is done by board members but Solveig Böhn from Dalarna University continues to play an important role in the organisation as the secretariat is placed at this Swedish university.

Our future challenges are versatile. We need to increase our membership to begin with. At the moment most of the members come from the Nordic countries, Ireland and UK. It is our intention to work hard to expand in the Mediterranean countries, in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in the Balkans. Therefore we need to make the organisation better known in Europe and to highlight the benefits of joining it both among academic colleagues and practitioners. We also need to continue to enhance our co-operation with TTRA International as we feel that we bring a lot of added value to this global organisation.

The annual conferences bring us together to meet colleagues and to get updated on what is happening in the world of tourism research and how those results are being applied in the industry. The conferences have a fixed time in the spring to make it easy for members and other supporters to remember them when planning for the new academic year with a plethora of events. Next year’s conference will take place on 23-25 April in Helsinki, Finland, where preparations are well on the way. The theme of the conference is Competition in Tourism: Business and Destination perspectives. You are most welcome to contribute to the discussion on these topical issues.

In the meantime, I wish you all the best for the new academic year.

Kind regards
Kaija Lindroth
TTRA Europe President 2007-2009
www.ttra-europe.org, www.ttra.com, www.ttra2008.com
 

TTRA / Tourism Society joint event

Dear member,

We are organising a joint conference with the UK Tourism Society on the
evening of 24 October in central London, at the MIC Conference Centre
(www.micentre.com). The title of the event is:

Trains, Planes & Automobiles
Transport in Britain: Driving Tourists Out?

The event will start at 17.30 with a viewing of the new St Pancras Eurostar
station, which is close to the venue. This will be followed by the
conference itself, at which a variety of speakers from rail, air and road
transport will discuss the impacts of transport infrastructures, present and
planned, on the flow of domestic and international tourists to the UK, as
well as within the UK itself.

Please support this event, if you can, by attending and taking advantage of
the opportunity of networking with our colleagues from the Tourism Society.
Overnight accommodation in individual bedrooms at the MIC is available to
delegates at a preferential rate. Please let me know if you would like to
use this offer.

Full details of speakers and topics will be available shortly. In the
meantime, please reserve this date in your diary. I hope to see a good
turnout from TTRA at this event.

Best wishes,

Rob Davidson
Senior Lecturer in Tourism
University of Westminster
London

Tel: (+44) (0)20 7911 5000 ext 3076
TTRA / Tourism Society joint event

 

 

The 2007 election for the TTRA International board of directors is over.

Elected to the Board (At Large)

Sheila Flanagan

For more information See TTRA International

 

 

 

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