Sustainable Tourism: From Theory to Practice

Presentations

3.00 - 3.45 pm
Conceptualizing theoretic concepts in sustainable tourism product development.
From theory  to best practice. Download Abstract 
Prof Werner Gronau, University of Stralsund, Germany

4.00 - 4.45 pm
Sustainable tourism - Translating theory into practice: Issues and problems. Download Abstract
Prof Richard Butler, University of Strathclyde, Scotland (Skype lecture)

4.45 - 5.15 pm
Book Launch - "Island Tourism: Sustainable Perspective edited by Curtin Professor Jack Carlsen and Professor Richard Butler (Please click on book cover for more information)

 

About the Presenters

Professor Werner Gronau is Director of the “Tourism & Transport Research Center” of the University of Nicosia/Cyprus and at the same time holds the position as Professor for Tourism, Travel & Transport at the University of Stralsund/Germany. His research interests focus on sustainable Destination Development and Management. He has worked in several research projects granted by different institutions as for example the German Ministry of Research or the European Commission and presented the results on international conferences, in various journals and books.

Professor Richard Butler is Emeritus  Professor in Business School  of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He has published widely in tourism journals, and produced fifteen books on tourism and many chapters in other books. His main fields of interest are the development process of tourist destinations and the subsequent impacts of tourism, issues of carrying capacity and sustainability, and tourism in remote areas and islands. He is a founding member and past president of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.

Registration: Please register your interest by the 5 September, 2011 by email - Fiona.Davin@curtin.edu.au, or via telephone 9266 3146 (Refreshments will be provided)

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