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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Conference Registration. Accreditations and distribution of Conference materials |
9:00 – 10:00
Plaza Mayor | Opening Address:
Mr. Oliver Herrmann, Director for Statistics and Tourism Satellite Programme, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Representative of the Vice-Ministry of Tourism, Colombia
Representative of Antioquia Government, Colombia (tbc)
Representative of the city of Medellin, Colombia (tbc)
Dr. Juan Luis Mejía Arango, President of EAFIT University, Colombia
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 – 12:30
Plaza Mayor | Session 1 : Colombian Regional Tourism Economic Measurement Experiences: issues & challenges
Session Chair:
Representative of the Vice-Ministry of Tourism, Colombia § Special address: Representative of DANE
Panelists (4):
§ Ms. Marion Libreros, senior consultant for DANE, Colombia (tbc)
§ Santander Tourist Information System – Situr Santander Colombia, Dr. Guillermo Rincón Velandia, Pontificia Bolivariana University, Faculty of Industrial Engineering (Colombia)
§ Representative of SITUR (tbc) Discussion |
12:30 –
1:30 | Lunch |
1:30 – 15:30
Plaza Mayor | Session 2: Rethinking Regional Tourism Observatories
Session Chair: Ms. Luz Helena Naranjo, Tourism Director, Antioquia Government, Colombia
Presenter: Mr. Oliver Herrmann, Director for Statistics and Tourism Satellite Programme, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Reference Document: INRouTe Tourism Observatories – suggested initiatives and recommended approach
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jon Kepa Gerrikagoitia, Director of the research area Tourism Systems in the Digital Age– CICtourGUNE, Spain
about
Towards a Tourism Intelligence Unit
Panelists (4):
§ Tourism observatory (TO) from Medellín to Antioquia. Dr. José-Ignacio Márquez-Godoy, Engineering School of Antioquia (Colombia) and Dr. Ledys López, Colegio Mayor de Antioquia (Colombia),
§ Status of Regional Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) in India, Problem and Challenges. Dr. Raj NathPandey, Ministry of Environment and Forest Govt. of India (India) and Ms. Sandhya Singh, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India (India).
§ Linking Registers with Administrative Data at Unit Record Level to conduct Structural and Regional Analyses of the Tourism Industries. Dr. Steve MacFeely, Central Statistics Office (Ireland),
Discussion
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00 – 18:00
Plaza Mayor | Session 3: Visitors Behavior Measurement and Deconstruction of Tourism Destination Demand
Session Chair: Dr. Juan Felipe Mejía Mejía, Dean, School of Economics and Finance Universidad EAFIT in Medellín (Colombia)
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Douglas Frechtling, Professor of Tourism Studies, International Institute of Tourism Studies
George Washington University, USA
About
Title of contribution (tbc)
Reference Document: INRouTe Visitors Behavior Measurement and Deconstruction of Tourism Destination Demand – suggested initiatives and recommended approach
§ Real time experience tracking and human behavior tracking: Macro and micro approaches to measuring tourist behavior. Adee Athiyaman, Western Illinois University, (USA) and Dr. Frank Go, Erasmus University, (The Netherlands).
§ Profile, characterization and estimation of the expenditure of flows of visitors to Santander Colombia, Dr. Guillermo Rincón Velandia, and Diana Garcés Portilla, Pontificia Bolivariana University (Colombia)
§ A reflection on the experience of the "Natural Resources Geopolitics Window" of the Observatory of Latin American Politics (OPLA) about tourism. Case studies: Acacias (Meta department) and Soacha (Cundinamarca department) in Colombia, Dr. Douglas Eduardo Molina Orjuela, San Buenaventura University, Bogotá (Colombia)
Discussion
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| 18:00 – 18:30 | Conclusions and Special Address: highlights of Medellín and its surroundings from a tourism perspective
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