https://iatour.org/icot2025
Regenerative Travel: Balancing Technology and Sustainability
The ICOT2025 conference builds on the eminent support of the international scholarly community and the success of the previous thirteen International Conferences on Tourism (ICOT) held in China, Cyprus, the U.K., Italy, Thailand, Portugal, Greece, but also virtually following the COVID-19 outbreak.
The scope of ICOT2025 is to examine the needed innovative practices, technologies, initiatives, and policies to advance a more regenerative form of travel that balances technology adoption with environmental sustainability and community benefits.
As the travel industry rapidly adopts new technologies, we must consider how to ensure this progress supports sustainability. This conference explores how technology can be leveraged to regenerate environments and communities impacted by tourism instead of destroying them. The conference will discuss technologies and initiatives that optimize resource usage, reduce waste and emissions, and encourage meaningful travel experiences that benefit tourists, destinations, and locals. It will also address how scholars and practitioners can harness data, algorithms, and innovation to guide travelers to the most culturally rich and ecologically sound destinations and activities. This event provides a forum to debate these critical issues and forge a path toward a travel industry that restores what it touches.
The conference will be a unique opportunity where academics, professionals, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and postgraduate students from the fields and industries of tourism and travel will meet, discuss, exchange ideas, and express their views and scientific approaches. The ultimate objective is to stimulate a dialogue on how tourism today should invest in innovative sustainable practices for its recovery and resilience, thereby building a more solid foundation for sustainable, balanced, and holistic development.
We invite submissions on all aspects of tourism development, policy, planning, growth, management, and marketing that will contribute to the current debate.
For registration or any further inquiries, please contact us at: icot@iatour.org
I look forward to meeting you in Dubrovnik.
