The host
Department of Planning and RegionalDevelopment (DPRD)
The 4th Annual Conference of the International Place Branding Association is hosted by the Department of Planning and Regional Development (DPRD) of the School of Engineering of the University of Thessaly in Volos, this year celebrating 30 years since its institution. The Department of Planning and Regional Development functions since 1989 and gained an autonomous administrative status in October 1996. Apart from the basic undergraduate program, the Department supports 7 postgraduate courses. In the research activity of the Department are involved 12 Laboratories, covering the most important subjects of the Department.
LA.RE.TOUR.
The Laboratory of Tourism Planning, Research and Policy (LA.RE.TOUR.) is a specialist unit within the Department of Planning and Regional Development that engages in research and supports teaching needs in the fields of spatial analysis and planning for the development of tourism resources, policy and evaluation, with an emphasis on alternative forms of tourism (such as cultural, ecological and agricultural tourism). It seeks to encourage sustainable development in urban, as well as rural, areas, and the evaluation of the environmental, economic, social and cultural impacts of tourism in regional development. At the centre of LA.RE.TOUR.’s interests are also issues of identity configuration and strategic promotion of cities’ image, based on Place Marketing and Place Branding Strategies.
Commitees
Organising Committee
- Alex Deffner (Conference Chair)
- Robert Govers (Representing IPBA)
- Georgia Lalou (Conference Secretary)
- Sotiria Katsafadou (Conference Secretariat)
- Eva Psatha (Conference Secretariat)
- Evi Dragoidou (Economics Administration)
- Tasos Gousios (Promotion Μanager)
- Christina Madelou (Events Manager)
Programme Committee
- Alex Deffner (Chair), University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
- Don Dioko, IFT Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao SAR , China
- Nigel Morgan, Swansea University, Wales, UK
- Magdalena Florek, Poznan University of Economics and Business and Best Place Institute, Poland
- Hong Fan, Tsinghua University Beijing, China
- Mihalis Kavaratzis, University of Leicester, UK
- Chiara Mauri, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy
Conference Scientific Committee
- Eli Avraham, University of Haifa, Israel
- Per-Olof Berg, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Nick Bogiazides, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
- Erik Braun, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Alex Deffner, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
- Charles Dennis, Middlesex University, UK
- Keith Dinnie, University of Dundee, UK
- Don Dioko, IFT Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao SAR , China
- Hong Fan, Tsinghua University Beijing, China
- Magdalena Florek, Poznan University of Economics and Business and Best Place Institute, Poland
- Rich Harrill, University of Southern Carolina, USA
- Andrea Insch, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Nicholas Karachalis, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
- Mihalis Kavaratzis, University of Leicester, UK
- Chiara Mauri, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy
- T.C. Melewar, Middlesex University UK
- Theodore Metaxas, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
- Nigel Morgan, Swansea University, Wales, UK
- Annette Pritchard, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
- Heather Skinner, Place Branding SIG at The Institute of Place Management, UK
- Sebastian Zenker, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Art Gallery Curators
- Mihalis Kavaratzis, University of Leicester, UK
- Massimo Giovanardi, University of Leicester, UK
- Neoklis Mantas, University of Thessaly, Greece
Department of Planning and Regional Development,
School of Engineering, University of Thessaly
Greece
00 30 2421074399, 00 30 2421074494
Georgia Lalou (Conference Secretariat)
Architect Engineer, MSc Urban & Regional Planning, PhD Candidate, DPRD UTH