Kazem Vafadari
111 Job222 Tel 333c Email http://www.scotwebinars.org/#39049$Moderator$2#51594$Welcomeremarks$5#39084$Panelist$6#39203$Panelist$4#39200$Moderator$2#39158$Moderator$2#37452$Conclusion$6#41610$Conclusion$5#38964$دانشگاه%20ریتسومیکان،ژاپن$10#38935$Moderator$1#19381$Japan$6#20656$Moderator$5#24835$Conclusion$5#35003$Conclusion$6#47743$Moderator%20and%20Speaker$4#49237$Welcomeremarks$3#49739$Speaker$4#50463$Discussant$3#51924$WelcomeRemarks$4#53057$Moderator$4#54668$Moderator$4#54963$Moderator$6#56345$Moderator$1#58147$Moderator$4#58404$Moderator$1#58993$Conclusion$5#
About Speaker
Dr. Kazem Vafadari is Director of International Center for Asia Pacific Tourism (iCAPt); and Academic Director of the Kunisaki City Research Center for world agriculture heritage in Oita, Japan. He is a Professor and Vice Dean for International Affairs, College of Sustainability and Tourism at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU). He worked with United Nations University and Kanazawa University in Japan before joining APU in 2011. He is an expert on sustainable tourism, natural resource management and tourism applications of agriculture heritage landscapes. His research background also includes community building, rural revitalization and destination branding.
Scope
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. Accordingly, Smart Community Tourism Webinars fuels this transformation by leveraging emerging communications technology to inject the seldom-heard voices of host community members and microentrepreneurs into global discussions with industry, technocrats and academics.
Vision
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.
Mission
To democratize the creation, access, and use of tourism knowledge among industry, government, academia AND small host communities.
Goals
Goal 1: To facilitate the hybridization of hyper-local perspectives of host residents and professionals with the technical and scientific knowledge of industry professionals and academics.
Goal 2: To disseminate new global knowledge among under-resourced host residents to enable their improved tourism livelihoods and equitable voice in destination management.
Goal 3: To disseminate new global knowledge to well-resourced centers of power and influence to inject hyper-local perspectives into policy-making, scholarly agendas and industry practices.
TYPE 1
Executive Curators
Duarte B. Morais, Deputy Curator
North Carolina State University, USA
Jafar Jafari, Curator
University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Kazem Vafadari, Deputy Curator
Asia Pacific University, Japan
Associate Curators
Mónica Alatorre
Universidad de Las Américas, Ecuador
Cheng Li
Sichuan University, P.R. China
Xu Jing
Global Tourism Economy Research Center, Macao
Koji Nakamura
Kanazawa University, Japan
Xerardo Pereiro
Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Field Curators
Yasuo Nogami
Nogamihonkan Ryokan Inn, Japan
Apolonia Rodrigues
Alqueva Dark Skies, Portugal
Andreia Roque
Instituto Brazil Rural, Brazil
TYPE 2
TYPE 3
TYPE 4
TYPE 5
TYPE 6
