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Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Development

CESTour Conference on

Navigative the Future of Sustainable Tourism

6th - 7th February, 2024


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  • Track 1: Role of Sustainable Development Goals in tourism
  • Track 2: Education, entrepreneurship and start-ups in sustainable tourism
  • Track 3: Community based tourism and agro-tourism
  • Track 4: Heritage and cultural tourism
  • Track 5: Eco footprint in travel and hospitality
  • Track 6: Religious and pilgrimage tourism
  • Track 7: Sustainable destination development
  • Track 8: Technology, digitalisation and tourism
  • Track 9: Nature, ecotourism and biodiversity (nature based solutions)
  • Track 10: Policy making, strategy in tourism
  • Track 11: Health, wellness and medical tourism
  • Track 12: Research methods in tourism
  • Track 13: Communication and branding in sustainable tourism
  • Track 14: Special Interests in sustainable tourism

Conference Chairs

Prof. Rahul Singh
Birla Institute of Management and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India 

 

Prof. Harald A. Friedl
FHJ University of Applied Science, Austria          

ABOUT CESTOUR PROJECT

CESTour (Centers of Excellence in sustainable tourism to boost economic development and enhance university-business cooperation in Southern Area) is funded by the European Union, more specifically by Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education. The primary aim of the project is to install centers of excellence for sustainable tourism at seven (7) universities in India, Nepal & Sri Lanka to share the concept of sustainable tourism on a regional and national level to create a positive impact for tourism development. Sustainable tourism practices can lead to a stronger awareness in society about the importance of preserving heritage, environment and people and contribute to national/regional development.

 

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

  • CESTour aims to build the concept of sustainable tourism on a regional and national level in Nepal, Sri Lanka and India.
  • Building knowledge and information dissemination around the topic of sustainable tourism and developing a higher perception about the importance of preserving heritage, environment, and people.
  • Engagement with important stakeholders to generate massive national/regional development from the source of sustainable tourism, tough in a sustainable way.

 

PROJECT OUTCOMES

  • Development of the educational system as it builds the capacities of human resources who will contribute to the advancements of the countries as a whole.
  • Implementing a well-thought-through methodology that is meant to have a long-term impact on the higher education institutions and target groups involved in each of the Partner Countries.

 

PROJECT DETAILS

  • Funding Authority – EACEA – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
  • Project / Reference Number – 617589-EPP-1-2020-IAT-EPPKA2-CBHE-J

Conference Objectives

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

  • CESTour aims to build the concept of sustainable tourism on a regional and national level in Nepal, Sri Lanka and India.
  • Building knowledge and information dissemination around the topic of sustainable tourism and developing a higher perception about the importance of preserving heritage, environment, and people.
  • Engagement with important stakeholders to generate massive national/regional development from the source of sustainable tourism, tough in a sustainable way.

PROJECT OUTCOMES

  • Development of the educational system as it builds the capacities of human resources who will contribute to the advancements of the countries as a whole.
  • Implementing a well-thought-through methodology that is meant to have a long-term impact on the higher education institutions and target groups involved in each of the Partner Countries.

PROJECT DETAILS

  • Funding Authority – EACEA – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
  • Project / Reference Number – 617589-EPP-1-2020-IAT-EPPKA2-CBHE-J

Program Schedule

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract/Paper Submission Dec 20, 2023
Review and Acceptance Jan 15, 2024
Registration of Accommodation Jan 20, 2024
Conference Date Feb 6-7, 2024

 

Themes

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Research Papers
  • Research Cases and Impact Cases
  • Articles & Practice\ Papers

TRACKS AND SUB-TRACKS

  • Track 1: Role of Sustainable Development Goals in tourism
  • Track 2: Education, entrepreneurship and start-ups in sustainable tourism
  • Track 3: Community based tourism and agro-tourism
  • Track 4: Heritage and cultural tourism
  • Track 5: Eco footprint in travel and hospitality
  • Track 6: Religious and pilgrimage tourism
  • Track 7: Sustainable destination development
  • Track 8: Technology, digitalisation and tourism
  • Track 9: Nature, ecotourism and biodiversity (nature based solutions)
  • Track 10: Policy making, strategy in tourism
  • Track 11: Health, wellness and medical tourism
  • Track 12: Research methods in tourism
  • Track 13: Communication and branding in sustainable tourism
  • Track 14: Special Interests in sustainable tourism

Keynote Speakers

 

Prof. Jarkko Saarinen
University of Oulu, Finland


Dr. Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Human Geography (Tourism Studies), University of Oulu, Finland, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He also serves as Visiting Professor (Sustainable Destination Development) at the Uppsala University, Sweden. 
His research interests include sustainable development, tourism and development, responsibility in tourism, tourism-community relations, tourism, resilience and climate change adaptation, political ecology and community-based natural resource management. He has been working extensively in the peripheral areas of the Arctic and southern African regions. His recent publications include co-authored and co-edited books: Climate Change and Tourism in Southern Africa (2022, Routledge); Southern African Perspectives in Sustainable Tourism Management (2022, Springer); Tourism, Change and the Global South (Routledge, 2021); Resilient Destinations (2019, Routledge); and Borderless Worlds for Whom? (2019, Routledge). He is recipient of John Rooney Award 2020 for outstanding applied contributions to the discipline of tourism geography by Association of American Geographers (AAG), Ragnar Hult Medal 2013 for the contributions to geographical research and knowledge by Geographical Society of Finland, and AAG’s Roy Wolfe Award 2013 for outstanding academic contributions to the discipline.

 

Mr. Vindo Zutshi 
Former Secretary, Tourism Ministry, Government of India   


Mr. Vinod Zutshi is known as catalyst of Tourism industry of India. He has been secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India. He has served many states with longest stint with Government of Rajasthan with his contributions in Tourism, Public Policy & Administration, Management and Election & Democratic Governance. 
Mr Zutshi has been secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India; Vice Chairman, National Tourism Advisory Council, India; Chairman PATA Chapter India; Board Member, PATA; Chairman, NCHMCT; Chairman, Board of Governors, IHM, Pusa; and Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, IITTM. In tourism sector, his contributions is immense through his stints as secretary, Tourism, Govt. of Rajasthan; secretary, Civil Aviation, Govt. of Rajasthan; commissioner, Tourism, Govt. of Rajasthan; chairman & managing director, Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation; and CMD, Rajasthan State Hotels Corporation. Mr Zutshi serves in Boards of many companies, universities and mentor of sustainability initaitives, including Advisory Board of Centre of Sustainable Tourism and Development at BIMTECH. He is serving to many chambers, universities and not for profit to share his expertise to develop tourism and sustainable tourism industry in India. Mr. Zutshi is an Alumni of Harvard Kennedy School and MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University. He is also an Advocate enrolled with Bar Council of Delhi.

 

Prof. Harald A. Friedl
Associate Professor, FHJ University of Applied Science, Austria
 

Dr. Harald A. Friedl is Assoc. Professor for Ethics and Sustainability in Tourism at FH JOANNEUM – University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Health and Tourism Management in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria, where he coordinates the Master program “Sustainable Tourism and Management”. He holds a doctorate in philosophy with a focus on the ethics of ethno-tourism using the example of the Tuareg nomads in the Central Sahara.  
His applied approach to tourism has been influenced by his twenty years of working as an adventure tour guide alongside his research and teaching. His current research focuses on the ethical problems of flights in times of global warming and on ways to influence (political) systems for defossilisation. He is co-founder of the international think tank “Action for Climate in Tourism Network” (ACTnetwork) together with Susanne Becken (Griffith Institute, Univ. Brisbane, AUS), Daniel Scott (Univ. of Waterloo, CND) and Paul Peeters (Univ. of Wageningen). He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Tourism Panel on Climate Warming.

Venue

Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Development,

Birla Institute of Management Technology

Knowledge Park 2, NCR, Plot Number 5, BIMTECH Rd, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201306

Tel : 91-6843000-10, Extn. 318
Email : cestour@bimtech.ac.in


Past Conferences

Organisers

About CESTour BIMTECH

CESTour BIMTECH i.e Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Development was founded in 2022 with a vision to work in research and publications, capacity building, advisory and dissemination activities, and engaging with industry, society and government projects and programs on the concept of ‘Sustainable Tourism’.

Steering Committee

Patron Board

Dr. H. Chaturvedi
Director,
Birla Institute of Management and Technology,      
Uttar Pradesh, India              

 

Dr. José Manuel Casado Díaz
Director, International Economy Institute, 
University of Alicante, Spain                                   

 

Dr. Subir Verma
Director,
Institute of Management, Nirma University,           
Ahmedabad, India                  

 

Prof. S. Sreenivasa Murthy 
Director, 
Institute of Public Enterprise,                               
Hyderabad, India                   

 

Dr. Ram Thapaliya
Senior Faculty,
Department of International Relation & Diplomacy, 
Tribhuvan University, Nepal               

 

Dr. Khagendra Prasad Ojha                              
Chairman GCI,
Kathmandu, Nepal            

 

Prof. Athula Gnanapala
Dean and Professor, 
Faculty of Management Studies, 
Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka                   

 

Prof. J.P.R.C. Ranasinghe
Dean, 
Faculty of Management,
Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka                       

 

Conference Co-chairs

Dr. Emma Zavaronne                                          
Associate Professor,
IULM University,      
Italy              

 

Dr. Veenu Sharma
Assistant Professor,  
Birla Institute of Management and Technology, India                                    

 

Dr. Raquel Simón
Researcher University of Alicante,                            
Spain                  

 

Dr. Punit Saurabh 
Assistant Professor, 
Institute of Management, Nirma University,             
India                   

 

Dr. Ch Lakshmi Kumari
Professor,
Institute of Public Enterprise,                                  
India               

 

Prof. Ghanshyam Bhattarai
Ph.d, Department Head, 
Master in Tourism and Hospitality Studies,                
Tribhuvan University, Nepal             

 

Dr. Subash Shrestha
Principal, 
Global College International,                                   
Nepal                   

 

Prof. Rangana Shalika
Professor in Tourism Management, 
Department of Tourism Management,
Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka                       

 

Ms. Chandi Karunarathne
Senior Lecturer in Tourism, 
Deparment of Tourism Studies,
Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka                       

 

Partners Details

Project Partners

  • FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Graz (Austria)
  • Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida (India)
  • University of Alicante, Alicante (Spain)
  • Universitá di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM University, Milan (Italy)
  • Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad (India)
  • Nirma University, Ahmedabad (India)
  • Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Belihuloya (Sri Lanka)
  • Uva Wellassa University, Badulla (Sri Lanka)
  • Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu (Nepal)
  • Global College International, Kathmandu (Nepal)

Publication Partner

Journal Press India (JPI)

Journal Press India (JPI) is a publishing house devoted to the publication of high-quality research journals in the areas of commerce, management, finance, accounting, Indian economy, international business and taxation. . All the journals are peer-reviewed and invite innovative research from experts, addressing topical issues in their respective areas. Visit us at www.journalpressindia.com

JPI also offer online solutions for 'Journal publications' and 'Conference management'.

JPI 'Online Journal Management System (OJMS)' facilitate with the automated workflow for the online manuscript submission, double blind peer-review process and publication. It would be very useful for the institution’s existing published journal/s or planning to launch new online journal/s or to revive old published journals. JPI's OJMS significantly reduces the administrative tasks of a journal’s editor/ editorial team through an automated workflow. The journals and their articles hosted on JPI OJMS portal will bring high visibility from respective web search engines to increase citations manifold and would also help in getting indexed with popular databases. The Journal would have dedicated webpages with various web links like, Home Page, Editorial Board, Current issue, Archives, Ethics Policy, Submission Guidelines, Peer-review process/guidelines etc.

JPI CMS tool is a comprehensive 'Conference Management System' that enables organizers of a conference to manage all their key conference activities from a single platform.

Apart from creating an exclusive ‘conference website’ which provides all information related to the conference, JPI CMS enables ‘online registration’ of participants, ‘online submission’ of abstracts and full papers as well as ‘publication services’ such as Conference Proceedings & Edited book (with ISBN), in both ‘Online and Print versions’. It also has an automated Peer-review system for the submitted papers.
Visit us at https://www.journalpressindia.com/conference.php 

 

 

Scientific Committee

 

Dr. Martha Friel
Assistant Professor,                                              
IULM University,      
Italy              

 

Prof. A. V. Shukla
Birla Institute of Management and Technology,         
Uttar Pradesh, India                                   

 

Dr. Nimit Chowdhary 
Professor,  
Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi, India

 

Dr. Manohar Sajnani
Dean,                                              
School of Hospitality and Tourism,                           
Amity University, India                    

 

Dr. Alba Roldan
Assistant Professor,
University of Alicante,                                            
Spain               

 

Dr. Raj K. Kovid
Professor and HoD,
School of Business, Sharda University,                      
India            

 

Prof. MSM Aslam
Professor in Tourism Management, 
Faculty of Management Studies, 
Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka                   

 

Dr. Abha Rishi
Professor,  
Birla Institute of Management Technology,          
CEO AIC BIMTECH, India                       

 

 

Call for Papers

The conference invites proposals for organizing special tracks or sessions and encourages Research Networks and Special Interest Groups to send interest. A track/session with 4-5 papers is expected participation. All accepted proposals will be presented on conference website for promotion

 

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

All Abstracts: All abstracts proceedings of the conference will be published for dissemination purpose.

Full Papers/Cases: Full papers and cases as recommended by Review Committee will be eligible for publication in an Edited Book to be published by Bloomsbury Publications, India. Conference is also working to associate journals to consider the papers for publication, the norms of publication will be guided by the journal.

Academic Ethics: Articles submitted to the conference should report original and previously unpublished findings. Following ethical conduct is very critical in the academic world. A plagiarism check will be conducted for all submitted manuscripts.

 

 

 

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STEP 1 – Submission of Extended Abstract

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Research papers describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, experimental, applied and theoretical work or research. Submission of a manuscript implies that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

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  • The text should be in English. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of both.

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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract/Paper Submission Dec 20, 2023
Review and Acceptance Jan 15, 2024
Registration of Accommodation Jan 20, 2024
Conference Date Feb 6-7, 2024

 

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