International Conference of Tourism, Recreation and Sports Management May 26, 2010

The Faculty of Applied Economics and Rural Development, University of Debrecen and the Faculty of Commerce, Catering and Tourism, Budapest Business School organize an international conference on 27-28 May in Debrecen entitled “International Conference on Tourism and Sports Management” and kindly invite you for the Conference.

The key objective of the “International Conference on Tourism and Sports Management” Conference is to underpin our partnership, to initiate joint activities between scientific institutions and the actors of the business sector by focusing on tourism and sports management.

The quality of life is a priority area in welfare societies and developing countries also take considerable efforts to improve it. With the alteration of living conditions, a healthy lifestyle, useful leisure, sports become vital both in everyday life, in business life, education and scientific research.

Tourism highlights the protection of our cultural heritage, its variety and sustainability; however, values created by innovation and novel solutions also help comply with market demands. Innovation does not only cover key areas in tourism, but also in recreation and sports management. It provides new opportunities on the competitive market of tourism for destination management and incites the development of touristic destinations as well.

Similarly, recreation has seen the emergence of new trends as the coherence of spare time management, sports and healthy lifestyle offers various interpretations.

The XXIst century poses new challenges, as besides research activities in competitive and in high profile sports, the economic operation of sports facilities, sports events, sports and environmental protection activities have also become active factors in developing the quality system of living standard.

The content elements of the “International Conference on Tourism and Sports Management” are featured by the key words of “experience, talent care and innovation” and its objectives include the presentation of the latest trends, research findings, practical applications and best practices in an international environment. Institutions of higher education, research workshops have always assumed an active part in knowledge dissemination, and since they are determining players in given regions, many roots tie them to businesses and market participants in their areas. On several occasions, these relations have confirmed that business and research-education assist and improve each other interactively; these co-operations create new and novel solutions, which work their way into economic and social processes.

The conference provides opportunities for national and international lecturers and researchers to publish their latest research findings.

Themes

Tourism

• Tourism as a tool of development


• Diversifying the tourism product


• Marketing issues of sustainable tourism


• IT and tourism


• Sustainable local / destination partnerships: Clustering and networking

Sport management

• Social, econimic and tourist role of sport


• Sport and medical science from the view of sport, physiology of stress


• Education, training, coaching, succession (trainers, experts)


• Talent care in sport, sport anthropomerty


• Vision of domestic and international sport, 2020 Olympic Games- facts and illusions


• International and domestic sport model

Important dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts is extended to 31th January 2010

Notification of acceptance: 15st February 2010

Deadline for submission of full papers is extended to 15th March 2010

Deadline for fee payment is extended to 30th March 2010

Conference date: 27-28th May 2010

Conference information provided by konferenciakalauz.hu

Official Website: http://www.intourismconf.net/