Keynote Speaker
Professor William (Bill) C. Gartner
University of Minnesota,
USA
William (Bill) C. Gartner, Ph.D., is professor in the Applied
Economics Department at the University of Minnesota
(Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Email: wcg@umn.edu). His
research interests include branding, image, economic impact, and
tourism development. He has worked extensively in Asia, Europe,
Latin America, and Africa and holds visiting professor positions
at four different international universities. He is the author
of numerous journal articles, book chapters and books on tourism
development. In addition, he has conducted economic impact,
baseline monitoring, policy analysis and branding studies for
the grape and wine industry in twelve U. S. states as part of
the Northern Grapes project. He is a Fellow and past President
of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.
Professor Thomas Bausch
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Prof. dr. Thomas Bausch Studies in engineering and business administration, Phd in marketing research, and he is the director of the Alpine Research Institute, 2002-2019. He is full professor departement of tourism, Munich University of Applied Sciences, since 03/2019. He is currently the director competence centre tourism and mobility at UNIBZ. He is the Director Competence Centre Tourism and Mobility, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
His main research areas is impact of driving forces to tourism
and destination management with a focus on demographic and climate
change, consumer behaviour in tourism, valorisation of cultural
heritage, perception of sustainability and sustainable tourism and
leisure mobility and mobility in destinations.
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