74th AIEST Conference of Ideas 2025 in Paris, France - Aug. 24 - 27, 2025

Why you should attend

Receive feedback on your work in a friendly and critical-constructive atmosphere.
Submit contributions at different stages of your work seeking feedback on your plans or your results.
You do not have to waive any (copy) rights whatsoever with regard to the work you submit.
Try to win one of the three potential prices.
Enjoy interesting keynotes and targeted workshops for your needs.
Join the AIEST Research Seminar and get insights for publishing with top international scientific journals.
Visit Paris and its sites.

Download the master copy for your submission.

We are looking forward to your contributions to be sent to info@aiest.org.

  • Stream of Discussion 1: Designing tourism systems for a sustainable future.
  • Stream of Discussion 2: Human and Machine Relations in Tourism.
  • Stream of Discussion 3: AIEST's Advances in Tourism Research: Perspectives of Actors, Institutions and Systems.

Participants from different scientific disciplines and tourism related industries are invited to contribute to the following major sub-streams of discussions:

  • Actors behaviour, focusing on behavioural issues of consumers, management, politicians, etc;
  • Institutional settings, focusing on topics such as entrepreneurship and innovation, cooperation and strategic alliances, ITC and productivity led-growth, structural change in leading tourism relevant industries, etc;
  • Systemic perspective, focusing on topics such as the analysis of the market forces, marketing management of destinations, tourism promotion and policies, management of tourism related resources, sustainable development in tourism, regulation and governance of places, etc.
  • Other, consisting of contributions that cannot be classified as above.

Host: Claude Origet du Cluzeau, Laurent Queige, Patrick Viceriat, Sophie Lacour 

Venue: tbd

Winners of the awards at the AIEST Conference 2024 in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

The BEST CONTRIBUTION AWARD for the overall best contribution goes to Danyelle Greene, Anna Zinn, Yash Panday, Marius Portmann, Bettina Grün, and Sara Dolnicar for their contribution
"Anthropomorphism – A light-hearted way to trigger environmentally sustainable tourist behavior?".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):

  • Pietro Beritelli, Florian Gasser, and Zeinab Seifpour for their contribution "Choice heuristics for visiting cultural sites: A comparative study with two polar cases."
  • Meike Jungnickel and Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider for their contribution "The ski resort closes: what de-growth feels like? A case study from lower Austria."

The PETER KELLER AWARD for the best contribution uniting theory and practice goes to Danyelle Greene, Anna Zinn, Yash Panday, Marius Portmann, Bettina Grün, and Sara Dolnicar for their contribution "Anthropomorphism – A light-hearted way to trigger environmentally sustainable tourist behavior?".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):

  • Pietro Beritelli, Florian Gasser, and Zeinab Seifpour for their contribution "Choice heuristics for visiting cultural sites: A comparative study with two polar cases."
  • Jürg Stettler and Melanie Wyss for their contribution "Sustainability communication of a marketing hotel cooperation: The case of Private Selection Hotels & Tours (PSH&T)."

The AIEST PHD AWARD for the best academic contribution of a PhD candidate goes to Alessandra Pozzan, Nele Langebraun, and Michael Gibbert for their contribution "Polyphonic case studies: the emergence of a dialogical methodology in tourism research".
1st and 2nd runner ups are (respectively):

  • Meike Jungnickel and Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider for their contribution "The ski resort closes: what de-growth feels like? A case study from lower Austria."
  • Tereza Kubalova and Petr Stumpf for their contribution "Exploring visitor satisfaction in a cultural heritage tourism destination: the role of tangible and intangible satisfiers."

Have a look at the abstract book here.