MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear colleagues and friends,
I’m sure that you enjoyed last Sunday, and celebrated the World Tourism Day 2015!
This year IFITT has had the great honor to receive a dedicated video message by Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization – UNWTO.
We have recently published the call for IFITT Awards 2016. Make sure you check the different possibilities. In particular, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Outstanding Industry Contribution Award for Small Enterprises this year presents two categories: Startup Enterprise and Established Enterprise. It’s very important that all members and friends of IFITT contribute to nominate the best recipients. Please check all info here.
As you might remember, a few months ago we have launched IFITTtalk, a type of event that has attracted huge attention. After a very successful IFITTtalk@Bournemouth, in the coming weeks there will be: IFITTtalk@Colombo (Sri Lanka, October 18, 2015), IFITTtalk@Salzburg (Austria, October 22, 2015), IFITTtalk@Manchester (United Kingdom, November 25, 2015),IFITTtalk@Novi Sad (Serbia, November 27-29, 2015). To see past events and the full calendar of the coming events, as well as to organize your own IFITTtalk, please visit this page.
IFITT education is now richer and even more useful than ever. Beside eTourism curriculum, IFITT Digital Library and IFITT eTourism Wiki, it features now an eTourism knowledge map, which shows up-dated bibliographical data on eTourism research and eTourism courses from currently 21 prominent universities and institutions worldwide.
ENTER2016 is approaching! While the research track has received more than 140 submissions, which are currently under review, submissions for the PhD Workshop are still open: do not miss this great opportunity!
See you soon at ENTER 2016!
Yours in eTourism,
prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, PhD
USI – Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)
