Innovative Approaches to Tourism and Leisure

Аннотация

The current book of proceedings is the outcome of the effort of a number of people, who participated at the4th International Conference organized by the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT)in Athens, May 25–27, with the theme“Innovative Approaches to Tourism and Leisure: Culture, Places and Narratives in a Sustainability Context”. The chair of the Conference, i.e. IACuDiT, is a global network of people, who bear on a wide range of issues of concern and interest in cultural and digital tourism, in an era of major global changes. IACuDiT is a non-profit international association, which values creative, ethical, and progressive action, aimed at the improvement of global hospitality and tourism research on cultural and digital issues. IACuDiT brings together a wide range of academics and industry practitioners from cultural, heritage, communication, and innovational tourism backgrounds and interests. It mainly promotes and sponsors discussion, knowledge sharing, and close cooperation among scholars, researchers, policy makers, and tourism professionals. The Conference was co-chaired by the Kapodistrian University of Athens; the Peloponnesian University of Greece, the Aegean University of Greece, the University of Applied Sciences, Austria; and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.