Agenda annual meeting 2022
Below you can now find the agenda for the NATU Annual Meeting, October 20-21, 2022, both in text and as PDF.
NATU Annual Meeting, October 20-21, 2022
University of Gothenburg
Thursday, Oct 20, at Handelshögskolan, Vasagatan 1 (Hus A, våning 6), Matsalen in the Malmstensvåning Friday, Oct 21, at Humanisten, Antikmuséet (Museum of Antiquities), Renströmsgatan 6 (plan 3)
Torsdag, 20 Oktober
10.30 Tea & Coffee in the Malmstensvåning
11.00 Meeting starts: Introduction & Welcome
- Welcome to Centre for Tourism (CFT) and the University of Gothenburg
- Presentation round
- Practicalities and program
- Short introduction to education and research at CFT
11.45 Lunch – in the Malmstensvåning
12.45 Report and updates (education and research), what has happened since last year? Focus: after the pandemic – what has changed? (ca 10 minutes per university)
14.00 Break (tea and coffee is served)
14.15 The future of education – we discuss future pathways for tourism education.
15.00 Reporting from the NATU workgroups
- Research
- Network
15.45 First day meeting ends – leave bags at hotels and transport yourself to Liseberg.
17.00 Site visit at Liseberg. Presentations and tour with Andreas Andersen (CEO) and Thomas Sjöstrand (CPO Liseberg Expansion Project) – we hear about Liseberg and their future projects.
19.15 Dinner at West Coast (in Gothia Towers across the street from Liseberg)
Fredag, 21 Oktober
8.30 Welcome to 2nd day and recap of 1st day
9.00 Guest: Peter Berggren – Senior advisor, Lindholmen Science Park.
Introduction of the Strategic innovation program (SIP) application on tourism/experiences that is underway. Also presentation of the new innovation platform XperienceNext at Lindholmen Science Park and project with MasterCard data in tourism.
10.00 Break (tea and coffee is served)
10.15 Discussion: How to handle new types of data in tourism research (and education)?
- Data from social media, web sites, credit card data, visual data, mobile data etc.
11.00 Break
11.15 Hot topics and activities during the year
- Questions sent in and follow up from day 1
- Creation of network for tourism PhDs in Sweden - How to increase the awareness of tourism research among funders, regions, municipalities, and other external stakeholders? - Collaboration NATU - BFUF (biannual meetings, SIP etc.) - Discussion on the annual calls of BFUF. - Tillväxtverket and their project on mapping of the Swedish tourism innovation and knowledge system
- How members can contribute to the communication channels of NATU (homepage, social media) - How can we share seminar invitations? - Other topics raised Day 1
- Working groups for next year
- Next year’s host and chair of NATU
13.00 Lunch – served in meeting room and as take away if someone must run to the train