Vision
The webinar series aims to promote a sustainable, inclusive, and responsible tourism model that benefits all stakeholders—hosts (local communities), guests (tourists), businesses, and governments.
Mission
By bridging the gap between theory and practice in tourism, the webinar series incorporates the voices and insights of small-to-medium-sized destinations, offering practical development and operational strategies for their use. By advocating the concept and practice of “A Nice Place to Live is a Nice Place to Visit,” the series will showcase strategies, best practices, and success stories that ensure tourism contributes to community well-being, economic prosperity, cultural enrichment, and visitor satisfaction.
Core Values
The webinar series places high value on community-based tourism, sustainability and resilience, inclusivity and representation, knowledge sharing and collaboration, innovation and adaptability, engagement and dialogue, as well as quality of life and destination appeal.
SCoT Webinar Series
Together, the series is a dynamic platform to air seldom-heard voices from small destinations engaged in complexities of tourism. Its panels are populated by individuals who have expertise in the management of small and medium-size communities and their tourism businesses. Each webinar deals with a thematic subject, by first setting the scene, to then identify relevant issues, problems, and prospects faced by the host community. By bridging the gap between tourism theory and practice, the webinars offer appropriate development and operational strategies. Its 90-minute panel discussion ends by inviting online participants to comment on the subject or ask questions. The series champion sustainable development in small communities, with built-in resilience to benefits all: the host, guest, and stakeholder populations. “A Nice Place to Live is a Nice Place to Visit” will continue to direct the core mission of SCoT webinar series.
The dramatic events experienced in 2020 provide an unprecedented opportunity for tourism to evolve into a global force for peace, equitable prosperity and sustainability. Drawing from many decades of scholarship, we know that tourism can only be responsible to host communities if their residents are involved in technical discussions, planning, and policy-making.
Global interconnected networks of scholars conducting engaged research with industry and host communities informing the strategic evolution of tourism as a global force for peace, equitable prosperity and sustainability.
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Future webinars
Past webinars
The SCoT Webinar series aims to democratize the creation, access, and use of tourism knowledge among industry, government, academia and small host communities. Our growing community of contributors and participants envision ourselves as globally interconnected networks of scholars conducting engaged research with industry and host communities informing the strategic evolution of tourism as a global force for peace, equitable prosperity, and sustainability.
Based on SCoT’s goals, several webinars have been successfully held so far, available on the past webinars’ searchable page.
Volume 30
Dark skies can brighten community futures / / Rural communities are characterized by low population density and the absence of infrastructure that causes light pollution which makes them suited for astrotourism, a sector that enjoyed exponential gro...
Volume 67
Tourism Quality of Life Indicators: Sustainability, Competitiveness, and Performance / / Quality of Life (QoL) indicators are vital for assessing a tourism destination's sustainability, competitiveness, and overall performance, facilitating effectiv...
