Award winners

The AIEST offers four 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
  • The AIEST CRITICAL FRIEND AWARD for the audience member who provides the most constructive feedback on the work presented throughout the conference. 

Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper
Alessandra Pozzan
Nele Langebraun
Michael Gibbert		 Università della Svizzera Italiana
Switzerland		 Through the looking glass: Navigating tourism case studies and interdisciplinary conventions

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Meike Jungnickel

Alice Wanner

BOKU University Vienna, Austria

IMC Krems, Austria

 Paper: Dynamic adaptive pathways:The foundation for transition in tourism

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper
Alessandra Pozzan
Nele Langebraun
Michael Gibbert		 Università della Svizzera Italiana
Switzerland		 Through the looking glass: Navigating tourism case studies and interdisciplinary conventions

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Critical Friend Award

Prof. Stephan Bingemer, Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany

Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Danyelle Greene, Anna Zinn, Amit Birenboim, Yash Panday, Marius Portmann, Sara Dolnicar

Bettina Grün

The University of Queensland, Australia

Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

 Paper: Anthropomorphism – A light-hearted way to trigger environmentally sustainable tourist behaviour?

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

 

Danyelle Greene, Anna Zinn, Amit Birenboim, Yash Panday, Marius Portmann, Sara Dolnicar

Bettina Grün

 

 

The University of Queensland, Australia

Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

 

 Paper: Anthropomorphism – A light-hearted way to trigger environmentally sustainable tourist behaviour?

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper
Alessandra Pozzan
Nele Langebraun
Michael Gibbert		 Università della Svizzera Italiana
Switzerland		 Paper: Polyphonic case studies: the emergence of a dialogical methodology in tourism research.

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Juan Gabriel Brida
Leonardo Moreno

Miriam Scaglione

Universidad de la República, Uruguay

HES-SO Wallis/Valais, Switzerland

  Paper: Tourism expenditure analysis using vines copulas: the case of Fribourg

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Petr Štumpf
Petr Janeček

 

University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Economics, Czech Republic

 

 Paper: System dynamic ace for destination managers: online software DestinACE for decision-making support

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper
Adrian Müller
Alexander Stauch		 University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Paper: Switching tracks: Guiding employees towards low-carbon business travel choices

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper
Eva Erdmenger University Trier, Germany Paper: What does not kill you makes you PROsilient: A perspective for a prosilient urban destination governance

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Matias Thuen Jørgensen

Ignacio Danieli

 

Roskilde University, Denmark

 

Paper: Absorptive capacity challenges

in platform-based tour guiding companies

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper
Adrian Müller Center for Aviation Competence, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Paper: Structural preconditions for decarbonising business travel - Case study evidence from knowledge-intensive sectors

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

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

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Thomas Steiner

immotour ltd, Switzerland

 

 Paper: Web scraping for real estate list prices in Swiss tourism destinations - the advent of citizen brokers?

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper
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

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

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

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Lidija Lalicic
Irem Önder

Ko Koens
Jessika Weber

Modul University Vienna, Austria

Breda University of Applied Sciences

 

 Paper: Serious gaming: an Innovative method to engage stakeholders with sustainable tourism planning

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper
Annika Aebli University of Applied Sciences Chur and Leuphana University Lüneburg Paper: The Role of Gamified Technology in the Tourist Experience

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Kirstin Hallmann

Anita Zehrer

Julia Rietz

 

German Sport University Cologne, Germany

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

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Claudia Cozzio

Michael Volgger
Arch G. Woodside

University of Padova, Italy

Curtin University, Australia

 

 Paper: Nurturing the consumption of green Food: The persuasive strengths of different messages

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Chiara Massacesi

Alessia Mariotti

Otago University, New Zealand

Università di Bologna, Italy

 Paper: Food heritigisation for tourism development – «Food of belonging» in the Italian Dolomite

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Michael Volgger
Christof Pforr

Agnieszka Elzbieta Stawinoga

Steve Matthews

Curtin University, Perth, Australia


Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy

Tourism Research Australia, Australia

 

 Paper: What differentiates Airbnb users? An analysis of international visitors to Australia

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Bernhard Hrovath
Friedrich Leisch


Sara Dolnicar

 

 

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

 

Paper: What drives the price of Airbnb properties in city destinations?

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Hannes Antonschmidt

 

 

Nazila Babakhani
Brent Ritchie
Sara Dolnicar
Andy Lee

 

Melanie Randle

Modul University, Vienna, Austria

 

 

 

 

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

 

University of Wollongong, Australia

Paper: Food sustainability signage. A means to overcome the attitude-behaviour gap of tourists?

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Paper: Do tourists really consider the environment?

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Sara Dolnicar
Logi Karlsson

Astrid Kemperman

 

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.

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

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.

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper

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?

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Best Contribution Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Pietro Beritelli
Stephan Reinhold

 

University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

 

 Paper: Changing actors’ mental model of the destination:
Implications of a flow-based view

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Peter Keller Award

Authors Organisation Paper

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?

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PhD Award

Authors Organisation Paper

Jieqing Luo
Christian Laesser

University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

 

 Paper: Motivations for travelling to China

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