An international workshop of the Regional Studies Association
Research Network on Tourism and Regional Development
Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia
Vila-seca Campus, 10-13th February 2014
Evolution and transformation in tourism destinations:
Revitalisation through innovation?
Programme (28/01/14)
Monday 10th February 2014
17.00
Arrival and registration – Hotel Atenea Aventura
18.00
Opening session
Welcome:
Prof. Salvador Anton Clavé (Co-Chair), Dr Julie Wilson (Co-Chair)
18.30
Presentation: Tourism, innovation and regional development session: Local and
Regional Perspectives from Southern Catalonia
19.30
Welcome drinks reception (until 20.30)
Tuesday 11th 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
b) Tourism and spatial transformations
Chair: Marek Kozak
Chair: Oriol Miralbell
Pinto / Cruz / Guerreiro
Innovation and Human Capital for the
Alivernini / D’Ignazio / Migliardi
Cheap flights to smaller cities: good news for
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Emergence of a Maritime Cluster: Analysis
and Implications for Atlantic Regions
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
Coffee break
11.30
Parallel workshop presentations C / D
c) Emergent approaches to tourism and
regional transformation
Chair: Julie Wilson
Halkier / James
Image, experience and consumption: A
typology of food tourism strategies as
means to renew destination development
paths
Sanz Ibañez / 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
local tourism? Evidence from Italy
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
d) Governance
Chair: Òscar Saladié Borraz
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 Atenea Aventura
14.30
Workshop presentations E / F – Hotel Atenea Aventura (until 16.30)
e) Global tourism cities in a regional
context: evidence from Barcelona
f) Tourism topics
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Chair: Antonio Paolo Russo
Chair: Francesc González Reverté
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
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
Paül i Agustí
The new technological district
22@Barcelona and its role in the
touristification of Barcelona’s historical
centre
Arias
The relational effects of tourism in the
production of urban space. Illustrations from
Gràcia, Barcelona
Quaglieri
Cultural transversalities and places of
convergences in the cosmopolitan milieu of
Barcelona’s el Raval
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
Dimitrovski
Dark tourism events, examining the
visitation motives of young tourists in the
commemorative event “Veliki skolski cas” in
Kragujevac, Serbia
Miralbell
Storysharing and knowledge exchange in
tourism destinations
Soleimani / Ashnaee / Mostafazadeh /
Tabatabaee
Issues in weekend tourism in the Tehran
Metropolitan Region
17.00
Bus departs for the city of Tarragona from the Hotel Atenea Aventura
17.30
Guided visit: Tarragona’s historic centre
Dr Meritxell Perez, researcher CEICS (URV Tarragona)
19.00
Free time for dinner
20.30
Cultural event
22.30
Bus returns to the Hotel Atenea Aventura
Wednesday 12th February 2014
09.30
Plenary session – Aula Magna, URV Vila-seca Campus (Chair: Salvador Anton Clavé)
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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
Coffee break
11.00
Parallel workshop presentations G / H
g) Destination Renewal / Revitalisation
Chair: Salvador Anton Clavé
h) Policy
Chair: Henrik Halkier
Derriks
Reinventing coastal tourism in Northern
Europe - Insights from various destinations
Pawlikowska – Piechotka
Revitalisation of public space to enhance
attractiveness for spa tourists and residents
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
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
Rodaza
The Role of Urban Legislation in the
Development of a Tourism Destination: a
Focus on the Local Community
Acma
Policies and strategies for a sustainable
ecotourism: a case study of the Southeastern Anatolia region in turkey
13.00
Lunch – Hotel Atenea Aventura (return to campus afterwards)
14.30
Parallel workshop presentations I / J – URV Vila-seca Campus
i) Residential / Migration Issues in
tourism development
Chair: Alessia Mariotti
Cruz
Triggering Creativity through Tourism?
Insights from the Case Study of Tourism
Destination Regions
Russo
The tourism-migration nexus: issues for
j) Development
Chair: Cinta Sanz Ibañez
Robinson / O’Connor
The successful integration of culture,
heritage and sports tourism in rural Ireland
Dinca / Popescu
Cultural event tourism – a reinventing socio-
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regional development
Heldt Cassel / Thulemark
Migration to tourism destinations in
peripheral areas – Opportunities for
development?
Vázquez-Sosa / Frausto-Martínez
Sustainability and support towns: Akumal Yucatan peninsula, Mexico
16.00
economic development paradigm in the
post-communist 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 socioenvironmental degradation: Study of
Damavand County in Iran
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 Via-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
Thursday 13th February 2014
Study visit: Regional Development and Tourism on Catalonia’s Costa Daurada
(optional, at additional cost of €30)
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
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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 a Barcelona city metro
stop (included in the study visit price)
OR
14.30
For those returning to Vila-seca / hotel: Option to spend free time in the coastal
town of El Vendrell until the bus returns from Barcelona airport to head back to
Vila-seca.
15.30-16.00
Bus arrives at BCN airport terminals (traffic dependent!) and BCN metro stop.
16.30-17.00
Bus arrives in El Vendrell to return to Vila-seca / hotel.
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