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The NTV Chair organises the UEG course Turismo, pandemias y cambio climático

  • July 7th, 2021
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The Chair for New Green Transition organises the course Turismo, Pandemias y Cambio Climático. Oportunidades y Retos within the UEG programme; it will take place on July 16th 2021, both online and face-to-face (UV Gandia International University).

Besides the Director of UV’s Inter-University Chair, the course will feature the participation of renowned experts such as the World Tourism Organisation’s UNWTO Academy CEO, the Visit Valencia Foundation’s Head of the Tourism Sustainability Area, the President of ICOMOS & Director of University of Barcelona’s Laboratorio de Patrimonio y Turismo Cultural, the Institutional Coordination Director and the General Director of Rehabilitació, Vicepresidència Segona Generalitat Valenciana.

COURSE on Tourism, Pandemics and Climate Change. Opportunities and Challenges

The course’s goal is to review the challenges and conflicts that revolve around tourism in the face of climate change and pandemics, especially the COVID-19 one, which paralysed the social and economic life of most countries. The economic consequences played a central role in the last months. But this situation’s socio-cultural, environmental and political or governance contexts are not to be forgotten either. Moreover, the implementation of measures already applied against climate change will make us reflect on the opportunities and limits of tourism. Special attention will be payed to urban spaces where tourism intensified in the last decades, causing major conflicts for locals. When thinking about tourism, we don’t forget about matters such as its role in unpopulated areas either, as well as the over-exploit of resources and spaces, etc. It’s also necessary to introduce analysis from a gender perspective to an area where the conditions of women are too unfair to achieve equality. If until now we can affirm that tourism evolved similarly to a mass-consumption, cheap, and programmed-obsolescence society, the new environmental restrictions may notably condition tourism’s future. The most important challenge will thus be how to keep enjoying tourism in an economic, environmental and socio-cultural context that’s incorporating new restrictions.

The course will take place on July 16th, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., both online and face-to-face (at UV’s Gandia International Centre), and will be coordinated by Aurora Pedro Bueno, from the UV Department of Applied Economics and Director of the Inter-University Chair for New Green Transition at the Universitat de València, as well as of the course programme Universitat d'Estiu de Gandia UV.

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