The final programme of the international workshop Evolution and transformation in tourism destinations: Revitalisation through Innovation? Organization: RSA and GRATET - URV 10th-13th February 2014, Campus Vila-seca, Catalonia

1. An international workshop of the Regional Studies Association
Research Network on Tourism and Regional Development
Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia
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Vila-seca Campus, 10-13 February 2014
Evolution and transformation in tourism destinations:
Revitalisation through innovation?
Programme
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Monday 10 February 2014
17.00
Arrival and registration – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura
18.00
Opening session
Welcome:
Prof. Salvador Anton Clavé (Co-Chair), Dr Julie Wilson (Co-Chair)
Presentation: Tourism, innovation and regional development session: Local and Regional
Perspectives from Southern Catalonia
Mr Patrick Torrent, Executive Director of the Catalan Tourism Agency
Dr. Josep Manel Ricart, Acting Rector, URV
Mr Josep Poblet, President of the Tarragona Provincial Government (Diputació) and Mayor of Vilaseca
19.00
Music performance
19.15
Welcome drinks reception (until 20.30)
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Tuesday 11 February 2014
08.15
Registration (continues)
09.00
Plenary session– Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus(Chair: Julie Wilson)
Keynote Presentation:
Maturing Destinations: Networks, Knowledge and Innovation
Prof. Chris Cooper, Oxford Brookes University
10.00
Parallel workshop presentations A / B
A) Innovation in tourism destinations
Chair: Marek Kozak
Room: Aula Magna
Pinto / Cruz / Guerreiro
Innovation and Human Capital for the Emergence of
a Maritime Cluster: Analysis and Implications for
Atlantic Regions
B) Tourism and spatial transformations
Chair: Oriol Miralbell
Room: Seminari Geo B.29
Alivernini / D’Ignazio / Migliardi
Cheap flights to smaller cities: good news for local
tourism? Evidence from Italy
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2. Rodríguez
Innovation policy in Spain: the evaluation of a cluster
experience
Fialová / Vágner
Transformation of a traditional tourist destination
through the boom of tourist forms and new actors
11.00
11.30
González Reverté / Anton Clavé
The formation of tourist cities and their effect on the
Spanish Mediterranean urban system
Saladié Borraz / Anton Clavé
The influence exerted by the availability of low-cost
flight routes to mature mass coastal destinations: The
case of the selection of Salou by English
holidaymakers
Coffee break
Parallel workshop presentations C / D
C) Emergent approaches to tourism and regional
transformation
Chair: Julie Wilson
Room: Aula Magna
Halkier / James
Image, experience and consumption: A typology of
food tourism strategies as means to renew
destination development paths
SanzIbañez / Anton Clavé
Towards an integrated evolutionary and relational
economic geography approach for analysing the
evolution of destinations
Ioannides / Alebaki
Resilience thinking: A drive for innovative approaches
in tourism?
Pedrana
Creative destination and creative industries: a model
of interpretation
D) Governance
Chair: Òscar Saladié Borraz
Room: Seminari Geo B.29
Farmaki
Regional governance networks: a coastal destination
perspective
Saretzki
Destination Management Organizations as
Metagovernors: Governance of Governance or
Government of Governance?
van der Zee
Managing the complexity of a tourism destination: a
literature review on the role of tourism networks in
destination management
Kozak
The role of tourism in local development strategies of
Eastern Poland
13.00
Lunch – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura
14.30
Workshop presentations E / F – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura (until 16.30)
E)
Global tourism cities in a regional context:
evidence from Barcelona
Chair: Antonio Paolo Russo
Room: Sala Pau Casasls
Bové Sans / Guim
Barcelona tourism take-off: policy planning and
managerial model
Crespi Vallbona / Domínguez Pérez
The tourist city: Brand or community? The cases of
Madrid and Barcelona
Paül i Agustí
The new technological district 22@Barcelona and its
role in the touristification of Barcelona’s historical
centre
Arias
Enacting urban destinations. Illustrations from
Gràcia, Barcelona
Quaglieri
Cultural transversalities and places of convergences
in the cosmopolitan milieu of Barcelona’s el Raval
F)
Tourism topics
Chair: Francesc González Reverté
Room: Sala Miró
Gassiot / Prats / Coromina
Tourism constraints among disabled tourists: an
empirical analysis
Biard / Bouhaouala / Hartwell
Sport as the premium supportive tool to the
development of a city as a tourism destination: Vichy
– France as a case study
Bové Sans
Tourist Image of Tarragona as a Cultural Heritage
Destination
Dimitrovski
Dark tourism events, examining the visitation motives
of young tourists in the commemorative event
“Velikiskolskicas” in Kragujevac, Serbia
Miralbell
Storysharing and knowledge exchange in tourism
destinations
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3. Garay / Cànoves
New elements in destination’s image process of
creation. Barcelona viewed by tourism’ social media
den Hoed
Daily Life on the Move: Tourism in the Age of
Mobility: A case study of professional travellers in
Barcelona
17.00
Bus departs for the city of Tarragona from the Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura
17.30
Guided visit: Tarragona’s historic centre
Dr Meritxell Perez, researcher, CEICS (URV Tarragona)
19.00
Free time for dinner (or optional dinner at El Llagut, if reserved in advance)
20.45
Cultural event
22.30
Bus returns to the Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura
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Wednesday 12 February 2014
09.30
Plenary session – Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus (Chair: Salvador Anton Clavé)
Keynote presentation:
A Critical Review of the Tourism Destination Value Chain from an Innovation Perspective
Prof. Anne-Mette Hjalager, University of Southern Denmark
10.30
11.00
Coffee break
Parallel workshop presentations G/H
G) Destination Renewal / Revitalisation
Chair: Salvador Anton Clavé
Room: Aula Magna
Derriks
Reinventing coastal tourism in Northern Europe Insights from various destinations
García
Revitalisation of regional tourism destinations
through marine ecotourism: Local Economic Impacts
of Dolphin Watching, New Quay Area, Wales
Guzmán Fernández
Revitalization of the Alpujarra: urban and
architectural development strategies for sport
tourism in the Sierra Nevada, Spain
Mariotti / Zirulia
Getting out of the quagmire: strategies in the Rimini
hotel sector after the mucilage crisis
13.00
14.30
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H) Policy
Chair: Henrik Halkier
Room: Seminari Geo B.29
Little
Tourism as a component of coherent regional
development
Sanul
Reconciling Creative Industries with Tourism: Case of
Izmir
Santos Lacueva / Saladié Borraz
Climate change and vulnerability of coastal
destinations. An approach to policies and responses
in the Mediterranean Spanish coast
Rozada
The Role of Urban Legislation in the Development of
a Tourism Destination: a Focus on the Local
Community
Lunch – Hotel Mercure Atenea Aventura (return to campus afterwards)
Parallel workshop presentations I / J – URV Vila-seca Campus
Residential / Migration Issues in tourism
development
Chair: Alessia Mariotti
Room: Aula Magna
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Development
Chair: Cinta Sanz Ibañez
Room: Seminari Geo B.29
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4. Cruz
Triggering Creativity through Tourism? Insights from
the Case Study of Tourism Destination Regions
Robinson / O’Connor
The successful integration of culture, heritage and
sports tourism in rural Ireland
Russo
The tourism-migration nexus: issues for regional
development
Dinca / Popescu
Cultural event tourism – a reinventing socioeconomic development paradigm in the postcommunist Romania
Fontova
Effects of wine tourism in rural development case
study: the Alt Camp and Conca de Barberà region
Kheyroddin / Piroozi / Soleimani
Rural tourism development or socio-environmental
degradation: Study of Damavand County in Iran
Heldt Cassel / Thulemark
Migration to tourism destinations in peripheral areas
– Opportunities for development?
16.00
Closing session– Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus
(Chairs: Salvador Anton Clavé, Julie Wilson)
Discussant: Prof. Dimitri Ioannides, Mid Sweden / Missouri State Universities
Presentation of the RSA Network on Tourism and Regional Development
Prof. Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University
Prof. Marek Kozak, University of Warsaw
17.30
Bus departs from the URV Vila-seca Campus for optional workshop dinner (40€) in the city of Reus
18.00
Visit to the Gaudí Centre, Reus
19.30
Aperitif in a traditional Catalan Vermouth factory – Rofes
20.00
Workshop Dinner
22.30
Bus returns to the Hotel Atenea Aventura
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Thursday 13 February 2014
Study visit: Regional Development and Tourism on Catalonia’s Costa Daurada (optional)
09.00
Bus departs from hotel (with participants’ luggage on board if heading to the airport afterwards)
09.15
Central Costa Daurada towns(La Pineda,Salou, Cambrils) and Port Aventura theme park
10.30
Northern Costa Daurada: Cellers Avgvstvs Forvm Bodega: D.O. Penedès; wine tourism in El Vendrell
11.30
Visit to the Sant Salvador beachfront, Pau Casals Visitor Centre
13.00
Lunch (included in the study visit price)
14.30
Bus departs for a drop-off at Barcelona Airport Terminal One (shuttle to Terminal Two) for those
who have an afternoon / evening flight or to Barcelona city - Les Drassanes (included in the study
visit price)
OR
14.30
For those returning to Vila-seca: Free time in the coastal town of El Vendrell until the bus returns.
15.30-16.00
Bus arrives at BCN airport terminals (traffic dependent!) and B.
16.30-17.00
Bus arrives in El Vendrell to return to Vila-seca / hotel.
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