First Announcement and Call for Papers International Conference on Tourism & Environment Università di Firenze Dipartimento di Staistica 20th‐21st May 2010 Firenze (Italy) Scientific Program Committee • • • • • • • • • • • Guido Ferrari UNIFI (Chairman) José María Montero Lorenzo UCLM Antonio Giusti UNIFI José María Riobóo Almanzor Univ Santiago de C. Gh. R., Nabi Bidhendi University of Teheran Alessandro Viviani UNIFI A. R. Karbassi University of Teheran Paolo Bongini Tuscany Region (Italy) Jesús Rivas García Univ Oviedo Antonio Magliulo UNIFI N. Mehrdadi University of Teheran. Local Organizing Committee Organized by Department of Statistics ‐ University of Florence & University of Castilla‐La Mancha Session arrangement 1. Plenary sessions. 2. Specialized sessions. 3. Contributed sessions. Conference language: English, Italian, Spanish The 3rd International Conference on Tourism and Environment is addressed to researchers, scholars, teachers of Universities, research institutions and bodies. It intends to represent a forum for the presentation and discussion of the main features of the tourism and environment sectors and their relationships. The Scientific and the Organizing Committees are pleased to welcome colleagues and friends to come along and encourage all of you to actively attend with papers and to enjoy our unrivalled atmosphere, culture, landscape, art, and food in the city of Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance. • • • • • • Deadlines (for contributed papers) a) Abstract: March 1st, 2010. b) Notification to Authors: March 10st, 2010. c) Payment of the registration fee (ordinary rate): March 19st, 2010. Venue Guido Ferrari UNIFI Manuel Vargas Vargas UCLM Laura Grassini UNIFI José Mondéjar Jiménez UCLM Lucia Buzzigoli UNIFI Luca Secondi UNIFI The International Conference will be held in Firenze at the “Villa La Quiete” & “Auditorium al Duomo”. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_La_Quiete http://www.auditoriumalduomo.com/uk/default_uk.asp Registration Fees Conference Themes Until 19/03/2010 After 19/03/2010 € 400 € 500 Rates The registration fee includes: The Conference is open to any contributed paper that relates with tourism, environment and their relationships approached with statistical‐economic tools. By and large, the topics are, not exhaustively, summarized as follows. ‐ Conference equipment Tourism ‐ Book of abstracts, ‐ Coffee breaks and lunches ‐ Gala dinner. ‐Tourism demand and supply -Urban and rural tourism -Cultural tourism -Innovation and competitivenes in tourism -Tourism soustainability -Gastronomic tourism -Tourism legislation -Tourism seasonality -Tourism models -Tourism policy -Regional tourism organization -Tourism quality -Housing and tourism Information: e‐mail Conference: [email protected], [email protected] Secretary: [email protected], Software Developments -Tourism statistical information systems implementation -Tourism new software development The results dissemination will take place after peer review selection through the International Journal of Environmental Research (IJER), http://ijer.ut.ac.ir, the Revista de Economía, Sociedad, Turismo y Medio Ambiente (RESTMA), http://www.restma.com/index.html. and an International Book printed in the USA by the Nova Publisher. website: http://www.uclm.es/actividades/2010/IIICongresoTuri smo/index.asp Fax: +39 0554223560 Giuseppe Uliano Department of Statistics University of Firenze Viale Morgagni, 59 I ‐ 50134 FIRENZE (Italy) Environment -Costs of urban and rural environment -Costs of water and air pollution -Environmental policy impact -Economic environmental models -Regional environmental models -Ethics and economics in environment Tourism and Environment -Impact of tourism on environment -Tourism sustainability -Regional sustainable and competitive tourism