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Some updates on ATLAS events in 2017

Marija Lazarev Zivanovic
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Les Roches Gruyère University of Applied Science
Glion Institute of Higher Education
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Bulletin

September 2016

Please find below an overview of the future ATLAS conferences.

ATLAS Annual Conferences 2016

Next Wednesday the ATLAS annual conference will take place in Canterbury. We are proud to announce that more than 140 people did register for this 25^th anniversary event of ATLAS. If you do not want to miss this huge party, you can still make your registration at:

http://www.atlas-euro.org/event_2016_canterbury/tabid/248/language/en-US/Default.aspx

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Introduction. Canterbury Christ Church University takes great pleasure and pride in hosting the ATLAS Annual Conference in September 2016. 2016 marks the 25th ...

1^st ATLAS Americas Conference 2017

Tourism and Creativity: New Opportunities for Developing Latin America

The theme of the 1st ATLAS Americas Conference, which will be held from Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th June, 2017, at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife/Brazil, focuses on Tourism and Creativity: New Opportunities for Developing Latin America. The theme selection for this conference corroborates with the emergence and significant global growth of the creative industry. Despite the effects of the world economic crisis, which started to decrease in the last couple of years, the "creative trend" worldwide has generated about US$ 8 trillion a year, with annual growth between 7 and 15%. According to the Untact/UNWTO, areas such as culture, entertainment, publicity, games, and tourism represent the core elements that hold those numbers. In Brazil, the creative GDP advanced nearly 70% in the last 10 years. Notwithstanding, tourism industry in Latin America is expected to decline by 0.5% in 2016, according to the WTM.

Please visit the updated website at:

http://www.atlas-euro.org/Default.aspx?TabID=262

Submitting your abstract through the website is possible from October 1^st, 2016.

10^th ATLAS Africa conference 2017

Africa's Tourism and Travel Competitiveness: Opportunities and challenges

The theme of the 10^th ATLAS Africa conference, which will be held between Wednesday 7^th and Friday 9^th June, 2017 at MOI University, Kenya focuses on Africa's Tourism and Travel Competitiveness: Opportunities and challenges. The theme was selected on the premise that despite exponential growth of tourism in terms of earnings and visitor numbers, Africa still trails other continents in terms of tourist arrivals and receipts. For example according to the UNWTO, Africa had a market share of only 5% of the international tourist arrivals in the year 2015. Key challenges identified include, among others, the continent's competitiveness. A destination's competitiveness is a complex and multifaceted concept encompassing economic, social, political, natural and cultural aspects.

Please visit the website at:

http://www.atlas-euro.org/Default.aspx?TabID=261

Submitting your abstract through the website is possible from October 1^st, 2016.

ATLAS Annual Conferences 2017

Destinations past, present and future

After ten years the ATLAS annual conference goes back again to Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

The Conference will take place between 12th and 16th September 2017 at the campus of the School of Technology and Management. The Conference would be organised by the Tourism Laboratory, headed by Carlos Fernandes.

The way in which places are being transformed by tourism was the subject of a recent ATLAS publication (Russo and Richards, 2016), which described how destinations are increasingly produced, consumed and negotiated between tourists and actors kin the places they visit. These trends link to wider debates about the production of space and place, and the rise of new localities in a globalizing world. Destinations increasingly need to deal with the rise of new tourist spaces, changes in the tourism distribution chain and growing competition from other destinations.
These changes suggest an increasingly uncertain future for destinations worldwide. Where will tourists go next? Which new intermediaries will emerge? How will tourists arrange their travel in future? What kind of experiences will be in vogue, and how will these impact on the destinations themselves?
This conference seeks to develop new perspectives not only on the challenges affecting the future of destinations worldwide, but also on strategies, practices and policies to sustain and /or develop the competitiveness of tourist destinations. The aim is to exchange and discuss ideas on critical areas of the development and management of tourist destinations in such a challenging context by tourism professionals and academics.

Please visit the new website at:

http://www.atlas-euro.org/Default.aspx?TabID=263

Submitting your abstract through the website is possible from October 1^st, 2016.