Award Winners

The AIEST offers three different awards for best contributions at the AIEST conferences:

The AIEST BEST CONTRIBUTION AWARD (former EMERALD BEST PAPER AWARD) for the overall best contribution from an academic or practitioner
The PETER KELLER AWARD for the best contribution uniting theory and practice from an academic or practitioner
The AIEST PhD AWARD for the best academic contribution of a PhD candidate

Winners of the AIEST BEST CONTRIBUTION AWARD (former EMERALD BEST PAPER AWARD)

Year	Winners Name	Organization Affiliation at Award Presentation
2021	Kirstin Hallmann Anita Zehrer	German Sport University Cologne, Germany Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
	Paper: The importance of landscapes and sportscapes for sport experiences in destinations

2019	Sara Dolnicar Emil Juvan Bettina Grün	The University of Queensland, Australia University of Primorska, Slovenia Johannes Kepler University, Austria
	Paper: Reducing plate waste at hotel buffets
2018	Kirstin Hallmann Anita Zehrer Julia Rietz	German Sport University Cologne, Germany (presenter) Management Center Innsbruck, Austria German Sport University Cologne, Germany
	Paper: Comparing the interdependence of sport event spectator's experiences and their revisit intention across ice hockey, table tennis, and Motorsport events
2017	Michael Volgger Christof Pforr Agnieszka Elzbieta Stawinoga Steve Matthews	Curtin University, Perth, Australia (presenter) Curtin University, Perth, Australia Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy Tourism Research Australia, Australia
	Paper: What differentiates Airbnb users? An analysis of international visitors to Australia
2016	Sara Dolnicar Logi Karlsson Astrid Kemperman	The University of Queensland, Australia The University of Queensland, Australia Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
	Paper: May I Sleep in Your Bed? (Getting Permission to Book Accommodation in Peer-to-Peer Accommodation Networks.
2015	Pietro Beritelli Stephan Reinhold	University of St.Gallen, Switzerland University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
	Paper: Changing actors’ mental model of the destination: Implications of a flow-based view

Winners of the PETER KELLER AWARD

Year	Winners Name	Organization Affiliation at Award Presentation
2021	Thomas Steiner	immotour ltd, switzerland
	Paper: Web scraping for real estate list prices in Swiss tourism destinations - the advent of citizen brokers?

2019	Lidija Lalicic Irem Önder Ko Koens Jessika Weber	Modul University Vienna, Austria Modul University Vienna, Austria Breda University of Applied Sciences Breda University of Applied Sciences
	Paper: Serious gaming: an Innovative method to engage stakeholders with sustainable tourism planning
2018	Claudia Cozzio Michael Volgger Arch G. Woodside	University of Padova, Italy Curtin University, Australia (presenter) Curtin University, Australia
	Paper: Nurturing the consumption of green Food: The persuasive strengths of different messages
2017	Bernhard Hrovath Friedrich Leisch Sara Dolnicar	University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (presenter)
	Paper: What drives the price of Airbnb properties in city destinations?
2016	Rodolfo Baggio Pascal Favre Miriam Scaglione Thomas Steiner	Bocconi University Milan, Italy University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Valais University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Valais Fribourg Region, Switzerland
	Paper: Implementing Lean Destination Management with Strategic Visitor Flow (SVF) analysis.
2015	Nazila Babakhani Yasemin Boztug Sara Dolnicar Christian Laesser	The University of Queensland, Australia Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany The University of Queensland, Australia University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
	Paper: Video killed the radio star. Will consumer hybridity kill market segmentation?

Winners of the AIEST PhD AWARD

Year	Winners Name	Organization Affiliation at Award Presentation
2021	Adrian Müller Andreas Wittmer	Center for Aviation Competence, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
	Paper: The End of International Business Air Travel? Pandemics, Climate Change, and the Need to Meet

2019	Annika Aebli	University of Applied Sciences Chur and Leuphana University Lüneburg
	Paper: The Role of Gamified Technology in the Tourist Experience
2018	Chiara Massacesi Alessia Mariotti	Otago University, New Zealand (presenter) Università di Bologna, Italy
	Paper: Food heritigisation for tourism development – «Food of belonging» in the Italian Dolomite
2017	Hannes Antonschmidt Dagmar Lund-Durlacher	Modul University, Vienna, Austria (presenter) Modul University, Vienna, Austria
	Paper: Food sustainability signage. A means to overcome the attitude-behaviour gap of tourists?
	Nazila Babakhani Brent Ritchie Sara Dolnicar Melanie Randle Andy Lee	University of Queensland, Australia (presenter) University of Queensland University of Queensland, Australia University of Wollongong, Australia University of Queensland, Australia
	Paper: Do tourists really consider the environment?
2016	Yasemin Boztug Sara Dolnicar Homa Hajibaba	Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany The University of Queensland, Australia University of Wollongong, Australia
	Paper: What actions should crisis-stricken destinations take to prevent trip cancelations?
2015	Jieqing Luo	University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
	<link file:1148>Paper: Motivations for travelling to China