Program Winter Scientific Retreat 2024
Program Overview
The First Winter Scientific Retreat 2024 will take place from the 11th to the 17th of December 2024.
Speakers
Professor Maria Lexhagen,
Department of Economics, Geography, Law and Tourism, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Short bio
Professor Maria Lexhagen obtained her Ph.D. from School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a full professor at Mid Sweden University, Sweden where she is associated with a leading tourism research center, Etour. Her research is focused on marketing and digitalization in tourism and cuts across both business, management, and consumer behavior. Most of her published work is in the area of perceptions of value, customer-based destination branding, destination management, business intelligence in tourism, and popular culture tourism with a focus on fan travel and destination development. Other recent research projects include topics such as sustainable food choice in destinations and climate friendly solutions for destinations. While her interest in scientific method cover a wide range of designs, two of her on-going projects have an experimental research design focus.
You can visit her page at Maria Lexhagen
Dr Tijana Rakić,
Associate Professor of International Tourism and Hospitality Management
Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Short bio
Dr. Tijana Rakić is Associate Professor and Tourism and Hospitality Subject Lead at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. She is an internationally established interdisciplinary scholar whose research projects, publications and interests predominantly lie within the themes of visual research methods; world heritage, tourism and national identity; travel, tourism and art; narratives of travel and tourism; and representations of places, cultures and identities in promotional materials and popular media. Tijana is currently the Chair of the Geographies of Tourism and Leisure Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, as well as the co-editor of the Routledge book series titled Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism. She is a regular reviewer for several leading journals and she is also a member of the editorial boards of five journals in the field of tourism studies.
You can visit her page at Tijana Rakić
Associate Professor Serena Volo,
Faculty of Economics and Management, Research Cluster on Tourism, Marketing and Regional Development, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Short bio
Prof. Dr. Serena Volo is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is member of the Research Cluster on Tourism, Marketing and Regional Development and Vice-director of the Competence Centre in Tourism Management and Tourism Economics, TOMTE. She has chaired several editions of CBTS, the Consumer Behavior in Tourism Symposium. Her research interests include consumer behavior in tourism, experience and emotions in tourism, visual research methods and big data, innovation and competitiveness in tourism. She is an elected member of the Executive Council of IATE, the International Association for Tourism Economics. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Emerald international peer-reviewed journal Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality. She is also on the editorial board of leading scientific journals in the field of tourism, hospitality and leisure. She has had work, research and life experiences in Italy, Ireland, England, USA, France, Switzerland.
You can visit her Google Scholar page at Serena Volo