ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
President
President
Hble. Cons. Josep Maria PELEGRÍ i AIXUT
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Environment, Generalitat de Catalonia / President of Mediterranean Diet Foundation & President of the candidature of “Catalan Cuisine - Safeguarding of culinary heritage in Catalonia” to best practices register of the UNESCO Immaterial Heritage
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Environment, Generalitat de Catalonia / President of Mediterranean Diet Foundation & President of the candidature of “Catalan Cuisine - Safeguarding of culinary heritage in Catalonia” to best practices register of the UNESCO Immaterial Heritage
Chairman
Dr Jordi TRESSERRAS JUAN
Director of the LABPATC - Lab of Heritage and Cultural Tourism, a spin-off of the Universitat de Barcelona and the Ibertur Network. Consultant of International Bodies as IADB, OEI, UNESCO, UNWTO and World Bank. Expert of heritage management and cultural and gastronomy tourism, mainly World Heritage, Immaterial Cultural Heritage, Cultural Routes, and Creative Cities
Director of the LABPATC - Lab of Heritage and Cultural Tourism, a spin-off of the Universitat de Barcelona and the Ibertur Network. Consultant of International Bodies as IADB, OEI, UNESCO, UNWTO and World Bank. Expert of heritage management and cultural and gastronomy tourism, mainly World Heritage, Immaterial Cultural Heritage, Cultural Routes, and Creative Cities
Members
Silvia AULET (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia/Spain)
Francesc AYATS (Fundació Osona Gastronomia)
Pepa AYMAMI (Fundació Institut Català de la Cuina i la Cultura Gastronòmica)
Manel CASANOVAS (Barcelona Gastronomia, Turisme de Barcelona)
Blanca CROS (Agencia Catalana de Turisme - Gastronomy Tourism Product Club)
Alex FARNÒS (Museu de les Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta)
Magda GASSÓ (Agencia Catalana del Patrimoni Cultural, Generalitat de Catalunya)
José Manuel IGLESIAS (Fundación Arte y Gastronomía / World Gastronomy Institute)
Miquel MARTÍ (Museu de la Pesca, Palamós)
Juan Carlos MATAMALA (Ibertur – Red de Patrimonio, Turismo y Desarrollo Sostenible)
F. Xavier MEDINA (ICAF Europe / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Joan NAUDÓ (Gremi d'Hostaleria d'Osona)
Nuria MORÈRE (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)
Josep SUCARRATS (Revista Cuines)
Joan VICENS (Pottery Museum Quart-Girona /LABPATC Laboratory of Heritage and Cultural Tourism Universitat de Barcelona / IBERTUR)
Dolors VIDAL (Universitat de Girona)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
President of the Scientific Committee
Silvia AULET (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia/Spain)
Francesc AYATS (Fundació Osona Gastronomia)
Pepa AYMAMI (Fundació Institut Català de la Cuina i la Cultura Gastronòmica)
Manel CASANOVAS (Barcelona Gastronomia, Turisme de Barcelona)
Blanca CROS (Agencia Catalana de Turisme - Gastronomy Tourism Product Club)
Alex FARNÒS (Museu de les Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta)
Magda GASSÓ (Agencia Catalana del Patrimoni Cultural, Generalitat de Catalunya)
José Manuel IGLESIAS (Fundación Arte y Gastronomía / World Gastronomy Institute)
Miquel MARTÍ (Museu de la Pesca, Palamós)
Juan Carlos MATAMALA (Ibertur – Red de Patrimonio, Turismo y Desarrollo Sostenible)
F. Xavier MEDINA (ICAF Europe / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Joan NAUDÓ (Gremi d'Hostaleria d'Osona)
Nuria MORÈRE (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)
Josep SUCARRATS (Revista Cuines)
Joan VICENS (Pottery Museum Quart-Girona /LABPATC Laboratory of Heritage and Cultural Tourism Universitat de Barcelona / IBERTUR)
Dolors VIDAL (Universitat de Girona)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
President of the Scientific Committee
Dr Maria Gravari Barbas
Director of the IREST - Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST) and the EIREST - Equipe Interdisciplinaire de REcherches Sur le Tourisme (EIREST), Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Director of the UNESCO Chair "Culture, Tourism, Development" and coordinator of the associated UNTWIN Network
Director of the IREST - Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST) and the EIREST - Equipe Interdisciplinaire de REcherches Sur le Tourisme (EIREST), Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Director of the UNESCO Chair "Culture, Tourism, Development" and coordinator of the associated UNTWIN Network
Members of the Scientific Committee
Silvia AULET (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia/Spain)
Lia BASSA (Budapest College for Communication and Business, Budapest, Hungary)
Mohammed BERRIANE (Université de Rabat-Agdal, Morocco)
Lluís BONET (Director of the Cultural Management Program, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia/Spain)
Laurent BOURDEAU (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada)
Simona CADAR (Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany)
Manel CASANOVAS (Barcelona Gastronomia, Turisme de Barcelona)
Kostas CHALEVAS (President of European Network of Cultural Tourism-ECTN / EKPOL-Region of Thessaly, Greece)
Sidney CHEUNG (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Noga COLLINS-KREINER (University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)
Jesus CONTRERAS (ODELA – Food Observatory, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia/Spain)
Fernanda CRAVIDÃO (Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
Fiorella DALLARI (Universitá de Bologna, Campus Rimini, Italy)
Carlos FERNANDES (Politecnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal / ATLAS-Association for Tourism and Leisure Education)
Ferruccio FERRIGNI (Centro Universitario Europeo per i Beni Culturali, Ravello / Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy)
Jaume FONT (ANTERRIT, Universitat de Barcelona)
Eduardo FORERO (Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia)
Amareswar GALLA (International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Danmark)
Lluís GARCIA PETIT (former Heritage Director, Centro UNESCO Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Maria GRAVARI-BARBAS (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / UNESCO Chair “Culture, Tourism, Development”, Paris, France)
Kevin GRIFFIN (Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland)
José Manuel IGLESIAS (Fundación Arte y Gastronomía / Marca Cocina España / World Gastronomy Institute)
Sébastien JACQUOT (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / UNESCO Chair “Culture, Tourism, Development”, Paris, France)
Donna KEREN (Colombia University / New York Company, New York, USA)
Francesc LÓPEZ PALOMEQUE (ANTERRIT, Universitat de Barcelona)
Wided MAJDOUB (Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia)
Yoel MANSFELD (University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)
Alessia MARIOTTI (Università di Bologna, Campus Rimini, Italy)
Luís PABLO MARTÍNEZ (Generalitat Valenciana, Alacant, Spain)
Toni MASSANÉS (Alicia Foundation, Catalunya/Spain)
Juan Carlos MATAMALA (Red IBERTUR-Patrimonio, Turismo y Desarrollo Sostenible, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Raymond MAYER (Université Omar Bongo, Gabon)
F. Xavier MEDINA (ICAF Europe / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalunya/España)
Antonio MONTESINOS (Centro Empresarial Gastronómico Hotelero, México DF, México)
Nuria MORÈRE (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, España)
Lluís MUNDET (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalunya/España)
Jocelyne NAPOLI (Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France)
Stéphanie NKOGHE (Université Omar Bongo, Gabon)
Maria Àngels PÉREZ-SAMPER (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
David PICARD (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal)
Carmen RAMOS (Cátedra UNESCO de Turismo Cultural, Universidad Tres de Febrero/AAMBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Antoni RIERA (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Xavier ROIGÉ (Programa Master en Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Mike ROBINSON (Birmingham University, United Kingdom)
Noel SALAZAR (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Flanders, Belgium)
Carlos SARTI (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
Qustantdi SHOMALI (Bethlehem University, Palestine)
Jordi TRESSERRAS JUAN (Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Elena TURCOVA (Academy of Economic Studies of Moldavia, Chişinău, Moldavia)
Henrique-Oswaldo URBANO (Universidad San Martín de Porres, Peru)
Dominique VANNESTE (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Flanders, Belgium)
François VELLAS (Université de Toulouse 1-Capitole, France)
Myriam JANSEN-VERBEKE (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Flanders, Belgium)
Dolors VIDAL (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain)
Manos VOUGIOUKAS (CHARTS Project Coordinator, Greece)
Sun YEHONG (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beiging, China)
Linsheng ZHONG (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beiging, China)
Igor ZORIN (Russian International Academy for Tourism / UNESCO Chair on cultural tourism for peace and development, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Silvia AULET (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia/Spain)
Lia BASSA (Budapest College for Communication and Business, Budapest, Hungary)
Mohammed BERRIANE (Université de Rabat-Agdal, Morocco)
Lluís BONET (Director of the Cultural Management Program, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia/Spain)
Laurent BOURDEAU (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada)
Simona CADAR (Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany)
Manel CASANOVAS (Barcelona Gastronomia, Turisme de Barcelona)
Kostas CHALEVAS (President of European Network of Cultural Tourism-ECTN / EKPOL-Region of Thessaly, Greece)
Sidney CHEUNG (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Noga COLLINS-KREINER (University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)
Jesus CONTRERAS (ODELA – Food Observatory, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia/Spain)
Fernanda CRAVIDÃO (Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
Fiorella DALLARI (Universitá de Bologna, Campus Rimini, Italy)
Carlos FERNANDES (Politecnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal / ATLAS-Association for Tourism and Leisure Education)
Ferruccio FERRIGNI (Centro Universitario Europeo per i Beni Culturali, Ravello / Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy)
Jaume FONT (ANTERRIT, Universitat de Barcelona)
Eduardo FORERO (Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia)
Amareswar GALLA (International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, Danmark)
Lluís GARCIA PETIT (former Heritage Director, Centro UNESCO Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Maria GRAVARI-BARBAS (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / UNESCO Chair “Culture, Tourism, Development”, Paris, France)
Kevin GRIFFIN (Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland)
José Manuel IGLESIAS (Fundación Arte y Gastronomía / Marca Cocina España / World Gastronomy Institute)
Sébastien JACQUOT (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / UNESCO Chair “Culture, Tourism, Development”, Paris, France)
Donna KEREN (Colombia University / New York Company, New York, USA)
Francesc LÓPEZ PALOMEQUE (ANTERRIT, Universitat de Barcelona)
Wided MAJDOUB (Université de Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia)
Yoel MANSFELD (University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel)
Alessia MARIOTTI (Università di Bologna, Campus Rimini, Italy)
Luís PABLO MARTÍNEZ (Generalitat Valenciana, Alacant, Spain)
Toni MASSANÉS (Alicia Foundation, Catalunya/Spain)
Juan Carlos MATAMALA (Red IBERTUR-Patrimonio, Turismo y Desarrollo Sostenible, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Raymond MAYER (Université Omar Bongo, Gabon)
F. Xavier MEDINA (ICAF Europe / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalunya/España)
Antonio MONTESINOS (Centro Empresarial Gastronómico Hotelero, México DF, México)
Nuria MORÈRE (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, España)
Lluís MUNDET (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalunya/España)
Jocelyne NAPOLI (Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France)
Stéphanie NKOGHE (Université Omar Bongo, Gabon)
Maria Àngels PÉREZ-SAMPER (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
David PICARD (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal)
Carmen RAMOS (Cátedra UNESCO de Turismo Cultural, Universidad Tres de Febrero/AAMBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Antoni RIERA (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Xavier ROIGÉ (Programa Master en Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Mike ROBINSON (Birmingham University, United Kingdom)
Noel SALAZAR (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Flanders, Belgium)
Carlos SARTI (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
Qustantdi SHOMALI (Bethlehem University, Palestine)
Jordi TRESSERRAS JUAN (Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Elena TURCOVA (Academy of Economic Studies of Moldavia, Chişinău, Moldavia)
Henrique-Oswaldo URBANO (Universidad San Martín de Porres, Peru)
Dominique VANNESTE (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Flanders, Belgium)
François VELLAS (Université de Toulouse 1-Capitole, France)
Myriam JANSEN-VERBEKE (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Flanders, Belgium)
Dolors VIDAL (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain)
Manos VOUGIOUKAS (CHARTS Project Coordinator, Greece)
Sun YEHONG (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beiging, China)
Linsheng ZHONG (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beiging, China)
Igor ZORIN (Russian International Academy for Tourism / UNESCO Chair on cultural tourism for peace and development, Moscow, Russian Federation)