A monthly webinar series, is designed to broadcast the seldom-heard voices of the neglected bulk.
Volume 44, Willy Legrand
Volume 38, Hera Oktadiana
Satellite Volume 6, Noel Scott
Smart Community tourism
Smart Community Tourism (SCoT), a monthly webinar series, is designed to broadcast the seldom-heard voices of the neglected bulk. Its panels are populated with individuals who have expertise in small and medium-size tourism communities and operations. Each webinar deals with a thematic subject: by first setting the stage and outlining its parameters; subsequently identifying relevant issues, problems, and prospects; road-mapping operational strategies forward; and closing the session by inviting webinar participants to add their voices to the discussion. Sustainable tourism development, with built-in resiliency, is among the principles feeding the webinar series, advocating strategies which benefit all: the host, the guest, and the stakeholder populations. By bridging tourism theory and practice, the series brings to light the notion and practice of “A Nice Place to Live is a Nice Place to Visit“.
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.
Future webinars
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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.
Oct, 2020
Volume 6
Women in Small Communities Tourism / / Covid-19 has exacerbated the multiple challenges faced by women in small tourism firms (STF). It is recognised that the tourism sector provides women with employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, both vita...
Jul, 2020
Volume 1
Resilience and Recovery of Tourism Communities / / Recent webinars have paid limited attention to CoronaVirus problems of small/remote communities depending on tourism. Simply put, without tourism these destinations cannot feed themselves.This webin...
Mar, 2021
Volume 15
Corporate and Institutional Resilience and Inclusiveness: The New Bottom-line in Tourism Communities / / This webinar is the second in our series on resilience and inclusiveness training. Our panel, introduced by Jafar Jafari, includes Leigh Bennett...