An International Conference from the Comfort of Your Own Home!

Due to the uncertainties and restrictions inflicted by the #COVID19 pandemic, and for everyone's safety following the Health Organization's recommendations, it is in everyone's interest to host the conference online. As pioneers of this movement, IEREK is proud to be hosting this conference online. IEREK believes that rather than giving in to this disease and stopping our progress, pushing forward is of utmost importance.

So, how can participating in an international Video Conference boost your career, future potentials, and experience?

• Obtain an internationally accredited certification of participation which could boost your future academic career opportunities.
• Save costs of travel & accommodation.
• Discuss your research paper online with professors, stakeholders, and other authors (Online Oral Presentation).
• Get the chance to publish your paper with Springer in the ASTI Book Series.
• Make sure that your paper will get the maximum exposure in front of a relevant audience, as we share samples of publications within our weekly newsletter and online platforms.

About the CST 2nd Edition:

From the beginning of time, human movement and settlement patterns were solely dependent on basic human needs such as food, water, and trade. Today, and as we progressed into the 20th and 21st Centuries, these factors continue to influence patterns of the diaspora in different forms and with different motivations such as education, social betterment, and financial restrictions that were all usually coupled with necessity. However, in the contemporary and developed world, essential travel developed into a widespread activity of the masses supported by diverse services. As a leisure activity, according to Appadurai in 2002, Tourism represents an exchange of culture and plays a significant role in understanding the world we live in.

In recent times, the inter-relationships between tourism, culture, and heritage have been the center of discussion among scholars and researchers at both national and international levels. Yet, there remains a need to better comprehend this link existing between culture and natural environment as a way of protecting and re-creating its resources. This link between culture, environment, heritage, society, and economics, known as the inextricable link, forms the basis of sustainable development and tourism. With a current failure to put theory into practice and words into action, there is a persistent need for practical solutions to achieve sustainable tourism.

That's why The 2^nd International Conference on "Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST)" will be held in collaboration with Instituto Universitário da Maia - ISMAI, at Maia of Portugal, from the 13th to the 15th of October 2020.

The International Conference on "Cultural Sustainable Tourism - 2nd Edition" focuses on discussing the complex relations between culture, heritage, sustainability, and tourism. It showcases the different methods and trending strategies for preserving, spreading, and improving cultural and architectural heritage for the following decades. It focuses also on addressing the existing tensions in the assessment of cultural meanings and values to better understand tourism in the context of and in relation to preservation and sustainable development of cultural diversity and heritage resources. Provided that the tourism sector is becoming more and more willing to engage in the sustainable development scheme, key concepts and topics shape this conference’s agenda starting with policy and planning goals, whereby tourism is integrated with different development aims, to issues of structure and governance as well as heritage, sustainability, and biodiversity.

CST-2020 is a platform to spark discussion on emerging research methods on sustainable tourism that draws on integrated methods from many other disciplines such as Economics, Architecture, Geography, Sociology, and Management. It paves the way for researchers, professors, planners, architects, and stakeholders to take part in conveying and spreading awareness of the importance of cultural tourism as well as its development.

Moreover, this international conference avails the opportunity for interested researchers (authors) from around the globe to submit their research papers and get them published in highly-ranked international journals by the esteemed publishers Springer and IEREK Press. Noting that submitted researches must be in the scope of at least one of the official conference topics and abiding the submission instructions.

• 1. Aspects of a Sustainable Tourism

  1.1. Demand for Sustainable Travel and Mobility

  1.2. Governmental Role in Maintaining and improving destinations capacity

  1.3. Community interaction for Sustainable Tourism

  1.4. Development Strategies for Sustainable Tourism

  1.5. Integrated Relational Tourism (IRT) as a Tool of Development

• 2. Policies and Mechanisms for Heritage Preservation

  2.1. Heritage Preservation and Green Economy Integration

  2.2. Cultural Heritage Diversity and Green Tourism

  2.3. Globalization and Heritage Management

  2.4. Allocating Cultural Heritage and Environmental Resources, Wealth Conservation, and Management

  2.5. Heritage Preservation and Integration in Modern planning

• 3. User Interaction Based Development

  3.1.   User-Centered Design and Management for Cultural Heritage

  3.2.   Heritage Social Role in Sustainable Development

  3.3.   How Demographic Shifts Affect the Cultural Identity

  3.4.   Social Development in Public and Cultural Spaces

  3.5.   Cultural Traditions evolution through the year

• 4. Social and Economic impacts

  4.1.   Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Traditional Values

  4.2.   A Responsible Touristic Approach: Stakeholders and user interaction

  4.3.   Consumerism and Tourism

  4.4.   Tourism Sustainability and Economic Efficiency

  4.5.   Economic Sustainability, Concepts & Impacts

• 5. Future Prospects and Trends of Tourism

  5.1.   Digital Technology and E Tourism

  5.2.   Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas 

  5.3.   The Effect of Transportation on Tourism development

  5.4.   Health and Safety Development for Tourism

  5.5.   Millennials Perception of Destination

• 6. Sustainable Environment: Geography and Tourism

  6.1.   Ecotourism: Principles and Regulations

  6.2.   Natural Resources Management

  6.3.   Environmental Hazards:  Industrialization, Urbanization, and Agricultural

  6.4.   Heritage in Socio-Economic Sustainable Development

  6.5.   Geocultural: Effect of Diversity of Places and Culture on Tourism

Authors are respectfully requested to abide by the following steps/instructions in order to participate in the international conference "Cultural Sustainable Tourism - 2^nd Edition" and get their papers published...

Step 1: Abstract Submission

- The author (researcher) should submit an abstract file (paper summary) through our online system before the abstract submission deadline.

- Submitted abstract should not exceed 300 words.

- Submitted abstract should include the main keywords of the research (3-5 keywords).

- The abstract should clearly state the purpose, results, and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.

- The author should select the most relevant topic for the paper from the corresponding conference topics.

- The abstract file should be blind (DON'T include author(s) information).

- The author can use/download an abstract writing template to submit the abstract file accordingly.

To download Abstract Writing Template,  Click Here

Step 2: Abstract Review

- Once the abstract is submitted abiding the mentioned instructions, it will be sent to undergo the revision process by members of our scientific committee.

- The criteria for accepting abstracts for the conference are: A relevant topic of the conference should be proposed with clear writing, aims, and objectives of the study clearly presented, as well as a sound literature and methodology of the work.

- The author will receive abstract feedback and next step action by email within 2 weeks maximum from abstract submission date.

- If the scientific committee's feedback states that the abstract is accepted, the author will receive abstract acceptance notification by email stating that the abstract is accepted and to proceed with full/short paper submission.

Step 3: Paper Submission

There are 2 types of paper submission at this conference:

• Short Paper – Consists of 4–5 pages, and suits researches that make significant contributions, but still in progress or can be reported briefly.
• Full/Long Paper – The basic standard peer-reviewed paper and consists of 8 - 12 pages.

Short Paper:

- The structure of a short paper should contain its abstract, keywords, introduction, problem statements and the hypothetical solution along with further studies that they will go through when they want to extend their paper to be published online.

- A short paper is only published in the conference proceedings book and will not have a chance to be published online by Springer or by IEREK’s Journals unless the author extends their work to a full-length paper and pay the corresponding fee.

Full/Long Paper:

- The full paper should state the major issue(s) addressed, the potential significance of the work, the theoretical and methodological approach(es) pursued, major findings, conclusions, implications, and relevant scholarly references.

- A full/long paper will get published in the conference proceedings book as well as published online by Springer or by IEREK’s Journals.

- The author should submit the full/short paper written on the writing template, through our online system before the paper submission deadline.

To download Paper Writing Template,   Click Here

- The full/short paper should be written in English as it's the official language of the international conference "Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) - 2nd Edition".

Step 4: Paper Elementary Review

- Once the full/short paper is submitted abiding the mentioned instructions, it is assigned for review by the reviewers of the scientific committee in aligning with IEREK revision SOP (double-blind process).

- The author will receive paper feedback and next step action by email within a 1-month maximum from paper submission date.

Step 5: Payment

- Once the paper gets accepted, the author will be informed to pay the conference fees so that it could be sent to another 2 members of the scientific committee in order to provide the author with comments/notes that could improve the paper and push it to the limits.

- As soon as payment is confirmed and done successfully, corresponding official documents can be issued from our end such as paper acceptance letter and invitation letter.

Step 6: Paper Final Review

- The paper will be sent for review by another 2 members of the scientific committee in aligning with IEREK revision SOP (double-blind process). Reviewers' comments/notes will be forwarded to the author in order to modify the full paper accordingly. Then, send us the final version of the paper.

All accepted papers of the international conference "Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) - 2nd Edition" after the peer-review process will be either published as chapters in the Book Series “Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI)”  by Springer  OR  in The International Journal of Academic Research Community Publication (ARChive) by IEREK Press.

   

"ASTI" Book Series:

- The "ASTI" Book Series by Springer is edited & operated by highly-professional members of an International Editorial Board to ensure a high-quality publication material to be eventually published online and printable.

- The ASTI Book Series will be submitted for indexation in Web of Science (ISI), EI-Compendex, and Scopus databases.

- Only selected papers (Based on reviewing the committee's evaluation) will get the chance to be published in the "ASTI" Book Series by Springer. The authors will be notified by email accordingly.

More information about "ASTI" Book Series →

        

"ARChive" International Journal:

- ARChive is an open-access international journal that publishes conference proceedings in a wide range of topics and across all scientific disciplines, from Sciences, Engineering and Technology to Environment, Energy and Earth Sciences.

- The "ARChive" International Journal by IEREK Press is edited & operated by highly-professional members of an International Editorial Board to ensure a high-quality publication material.

- Accepted papers (Based on the reviewing committee's feedback) will get published in an issue of the "ARChive" International Journal. The authors will be notified by email accordingly.

More information about "ARChive" International Journal →

   

For IEREK's Provious Publications, Please Click here

- Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) - 1st Edition held in Thessaloniki, Greece in November, 2017.

Springer

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) Series.

Cultural Sustainable Tourism

(Selected Papers) Publication Link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030108038

IEREK Press

The Academic Research Community (ARChive)

Vol 2, issue #2 (2018): Proceedings of the international conference: Cultural Sustainable Tourism

Publication link: https://press.ierek.com/index.php/ARChive/issue/view/14/showToc

Instructions

- Each research paper should have one main author who should pay the full fee (Author fees) regardless of attendance.

- Each co-author (1-5 max) has his/her own separate fees to pay as shown in a table below.

- A research paper fee allows only one author, whether main or co-author, to attend the conference and receive only one copy of the conference proceedings book in both hard and soft copies. Extras can be requested for a fee shown below.

Conference Fees:

As the saying goes,

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much

Thus, IEREK would like to thank all the following esteemed partners & Sponsors for their cooperation and support which pushes this international event to the limit...

Instituto Universitário da Maia - ISMAI
(Official Partner & Organizer)

ISMAI - Instituto Universitário da Maia is an institute of higher education formed in 1990 in Maia, Portugal to provide excellence in student training in diverse scientific, technical and cultural fields so as to prepare them to active working life and also to motivate them towards innovation and development.

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Centro Estudos Desenvolvimento Turístico
(Official Partner & Organizer)

The CENTER FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT STUDIES asserts itself as an aggregating node of researchers from diverse disciplinary areas, whose approaches complement each other in the analysis of the dialectical relationship between the tourism phenomenon and the biophysical and socioeconomic processes, from the local scale to the global scale.

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Delegates in any event who cancel their registration due to special circumstances will receive refunds according to the following:

- For the purpose of oral presentation, authors should use the PowerPoint template that will be available for download within this section on September 01, 2020.

- Moreover, please take into consideration that the presentation should not exceed 15 minutes, which is the time assigned for each research presentation.

- Eventually, the author should deliver the presentation as an attachment to the conference's official email [email protected] before the deadline on October 01, 2020.

One of today’s most affordable and prominent form of art is photography. The evolution of photography over the years can now be seen in methods of digital manipulation and post production. However, new ways of thinking and approaches to this medium have resulted in a contribution more significant than ever. With the ‘concept’ in mind, a more meaningful debate is generated among the wider photographic community and general public. It could be reason to provide a voice for those lacking power or perhaps shed a light on a current issue that deserves attention. Through photography, a new definition of visual culture can be generated.

Similarly, and from an anthropological point of view, a visual image can embody the identity of a person, a group or a place through a combination of objective techniques and artistic practices. By viewing its landscapes, villages, traditions and practices, one could gain insight into a nation through the created imagery of a defined place. By presenting the habits, routines and styles of people, the breadth of identity, class, culture and even patterns of a place can be explored in photographs.

Held in Parallel to IEREK’s Second Edition of the International Conference on Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST), this intensive 5-day workshop facilitates an exploration of the different ways contemporary photography can contribute to the visualization and portrayal of cultural identity and class.

Workshop Objectives: A Case Study

Using a case study to be introduced, the workshop introduces advanced technical aspects of photography as well as the use of different elements and post-production techniques to develop a project that focuses on the shaping of contemporary culture and its relation to cultural heritage as well as the identity of a place, Portugal, and how they can be visually represented.

Topics/ Deliverables include

• Photography and Visual Culture
• Advanced photographic planning and technique
• Meaningful Photography: War, Family, Art and Activism
• Contemporary Debates and Creative Enquiry
• Redefining the Medium
• Photography and Cultural Heritage
• Post production and image optimization for publishing
• Rights and Display

Process

This 5-day workshop provides an intensive program through the delivery of lectures, stimulation of fruitful discussions, and

Please note that this program is intensive and consists of a 5-day workweek, Monday through Friday.  During non-classroom hours (2 – 3 hours each day) students will be expected to be researching and then scouting and/or photographing (fieldwork). Photographic work will be reviewed during group critiques/ tutorials with the instructor(s).

Prerequisites

Participants will be expected to bring with them:
a) a camera with manual override settings
b) a Laptop
c) Software: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop light room etc.
d) A passion for photography

Students will be expected to manually operate a camera and have basic editing knowledge.

Language of Instruction

English

Instructors

Fernando Faria Paulino, University Institute of Maia - ISMAI · Department of Communication Sciences and Information Technologies, Portugal.

Bio:  Fernando Faria Paulino, has earned a PhD in Anthropology (specializing in Visual Anthropology). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University Institute of Maia (ISMAI), in the Department of Communication Sciences and Information Technology (in the areas of audiovisual communication, multimedia communication, visual semiotics, documentary film, hypermedia and photography), an integrated researcher at CITEI Research Centre in Technologies and Intermedia Studies, and a lead researcher at CIAC Centre for Research in Arts and Communication / University of Algarve. He is the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Degree in Multimedia Communication Technology at the University Institute of Maia, the Coordinator of the CLM Multimedia Lab Center at ISMAI, as well as the Coordinator of LabCCCom Communication Sciences Center, a Multiplatform Audiovisual Studio at ISMAI. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Murcia and at the University of Cape Verde.

Expertise: Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Culture, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Visual Culture, Film Studies, Photography, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage, Cinematography

And more to be announced.