Notre tourisme europen est de plein pied dans la globalisation ...

le CIRET cr sur son site internet un rseau mondial volutif d’universits (aujourd’hui 766 dans 107 pays) et de chercheurs individuels (aujourd’hui 4.531 dans 119 pays) spcialiss dans le tourisme, les loisirs et l’industrie htelire. Les institutions et les chercheurs individuels qui ne figurent pas encore dans ces banques de donnes sont invits envoyer directement et gratuitement leurs informations par l’intermdiaire du site du CIRET - Index S’enregistrer .

CIRET (Centre International d’Etudes Touristiques) has created on its website an evolutionary worldwide directory of academic institutions (today 766 in 107 countries) and an evolutionary worldwide directory of individual researchers (today 4,531 in 119 countries). In order to reduce that waste of time, money and energy, CIRET (Centre International de Recherches et of individual researchers specialised in tourism, leisure, outdoor recreation and hospitality industry. Institutions and individual researchers not yet quoted in the data bases are invited to enter directly and free of charge their informations through the CIRET’s website - Index “Registration Form”.

This first session will be based on applied training, drawing from conferences dealing with updated information on intra European tourism and its contribution to the knowledge of cultures and their heritages as well as the concept of durable tourism and its interpretations.

Le secteur du tourisme est actuellement confront de nouvelles menaces et opportunits :

• dveloppement des technologies de l’information et de la communication,
• accroissement de la concurrence avec de nouvelles destinations et de nouveaux produits trs comptitifs,
• augmentation de la volatilit des comportements de consommation,
• menaces terroristes, etc.

Face ces nouveaux dfis, quelles rponses apporter ?

The tourism sector is currently facing new threats and new opportunities:

• the development of information and communication technologies,
• growing competition, with new destinations and very competitive new products,
• increased volatility in consumer behaviour,
• terrorist threats etc.

Entre 2004 et 2007, le tourisme dans l’Union Europenne vit des annes fastes ; 2006 en a t l’illustration et 2007 devrait poursuivre sur la lance, mais avec une dclration ; les points forts de cette croissance sont notamment :

The face of travel and tourism is changing. Tourism has not only been a user of technology but is also a driving force in advancing technological development. Awide variety of evolving technologies affects professional practices and consumer behavior in hospitality, travel, distribution, destination marketing, and attraction management. The purpose of this conference is to present a critical overview of the changes that technology continues to make on the tourism industry.