The ISCONTOUR is a conference for students and with students. It was founded by Christian Maurer (IMC University of Applied Sciences in Krems) and Roman Egger (University of Applied Sciences Salzburg) to encourage students for touristic research topics and to publish their work to a more general public.
A success story
This year, 140 students, graduates, practitioners and lecturers from more than 40 countries took part at the event, that was organized in Krems for this year. Again, the aim to promote the knowledge transfer between students as well as universities and practitioners, was achieved successfully. Learning and having fun went together hand in hand – and presented a whole bunch of great talents again!
Coming together for two days
The program of the two conference days contained workshops showing innovative research methods and helt by Stephanie Tischler and Inga Carboni (IMC FH Krems) as well as Claus Ebster (University Vienna) and Barbara Neuhofer (Bournemouth University). After that, the prestigious researcher Melanie Kay Smith of the Budapest Metropolitan University of Applied Sciences held a speach about the differentiation between health tourism and common wellness trends. The heart of the event, of course, was the presentation of the contributing authors from over 20 countries.
The Awards
Two kinds of awards were gain able for the authors of the 27 research articles: The Best Paper Award and the Best ICT-related Paper Award. In the first category, the first price went to Yuan Pan from the Institute for Tourism Studies in Macao, the second to Miriam Broseghini and Serena Volo from the University of Bolzano, Italy and the third to Raul Monteiro, also from the Institute for Tourism Studies Macao. The best ICT-related contributions came from Rebecca Wahler and Aleksander Groth from the Management Center Innsbruck (first place), Larissa Neuburger (second) as well as Sofiya Iliycheva and Melanie Fraiss, both from the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.
More information about the ISCONTOUR: www.tourism-student-conference.com