Notícias

ISCE organiza Global Tourism TechEDU Conference 2025

Advanced Technologies in Tourism Education

 April 8-9, 2025

Online | Participação Gratuita

O Departamento de Ciências Empresariais do ISCE - Instituto Superior de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo é uma das Instituições organizadoras do Global Tourism TechEDU Conference 2025, um evento que conta com a colaboração de 34 instituições de ensino superior e centros de investigação internacionais de 18 países distribuídos pelos cinco continentes, que lecionam e investigam a grande área do turismo. Sob o mote "Advanced Technologies in Tourism Education", esta conferência internacional visa apresentar e discutir as melhores práticas de ensino do turismo através da utilização das tecnologias mais avançadas e aplicadas a nível mundial.

Este evento global, coorganizado em parceria num dos maiores consórcios mundiais de Turismo, coordenado pelo Departamento de Ciências Empresariais do ISCE, terá lugar nos dias 8 e 9 de abril de 2025.

A conferência que será transmitida integralmente em formato online e que é de acesso totalmente gratuito, contará com a participação das seguintes instituições organizadoras:

  • ANGOLA 
    • Escola de Hotelaria e Turismo da Universidade Agostinho Neto
  • AUSTRÁLIA 
    • The University of Newcastle
  • BRASIL
    • Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
    • Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
    • Parnaiba Delta Federal University - UFDPar
    • Federal University of Pernambuco (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE)
    • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
  • CABO VERDE             
    • Universidade do Mindelo
  • CHÉQUIA
    • Panevropská univerzita, Fakulta Vysoká škola obchodní (Pan-European Univerzity, Faculty of Business)
  • COLÔMBIA
    • Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia
  • EQUADOR
    • Universidad de Guayaquil, Facultad de Administración, Carrera de Licenciatura en Turismo
  • ESPANHA
    • Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
    • Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Turismo, Universidad de Vigo
  • ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMÉRICA
    • Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management, & Tourism at Texas A&M University, USA
  • ÍNDIA
    • Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
  • INGLATERRA
    • University of Northampton
  • JAPÃO
    • Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  • LITUÂNIA
    • Vytautas Magnus University
  • MÉXICO
    • Universidad Santander
  • MOÇAMBIQUE
    • UnISCED
  • POLÓNIA
    • Jagiellonian University, Institute of Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management and Social Communication
    • Institute of Spatial Management and Socio-Economic Geography, University of Szczecin
  • PORTUGAL
    • CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora
    • CiTUR - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation
    • Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies
    • ISCE Douro - Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro
    • ISCE - Instituto Superior de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo
    • ISEC Lisboa - Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências
    • ISLA - Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia /ISLA - Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology
    • Instituto Politécnico de Beja
    • Instituto Politécnico da Guarda
    • Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
    • Portucalense University
    • Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro Regional da Braga. Faculdade da Filosofia e Ciências Sociais (FFCH)
  • SÉRVIA
    • Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management - Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad


Inscrições e mais informações disponíveis em https://tourismconf.com
 
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Tourism and Colonial Heritage: The Reencounter of Cultures

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS, 2026

 

University of Lisboa

School of Arts and Humanities

Lisboa,

PORTUGAL

9 to 11 April 2026

 

We are pleased to announce the International Congress, 2026 TOURISM AND COLONIAL HERITAGE: THE REENCOUNTER OF CULTURES, to be held at the School of Arts and Humanities in the University of Lisbon (Portugal).

 

Three keynote speakers will enrich our congress with their seminars: 

   > Mike Robinson (Nottingham Trent University, England), 

   > Juan Pérez (Universidad Las Palmas, Spain) 

   > Maria José de Freitas (ICOMOS ISC Shared Built Heritage, Portugal).

 

The main theme of this congress is “Tourism and Colonial Heritage”, emphasizing the vital role of tourism in preserving, reinterpreting and promoting the shared values and collective memory of humanity. The congress aims to bring together academics, researchers, industry professionals, students and civil society from around the world to discuss, explore and promote the transversal relationship between a hybrid (colonial) heritage and tourism, questioning and putting into perspective a history that is constantly being updated.

 

SYNOPSIS

Heritage is one of the great flags of contemporary times and tourism is a tentacular phenomenon of the global society to which the 21st century is heir.

Cultural motivation makes many tourists travel to places that once belonged to European empires in order to experience their hybrid heritage. Hence colonial heritage tourism enables people to enjoy not only leisure travel but also historical knowledge spanning many centuries providing a privileged access route to empowerment between visitors and hosts.

As tourism is a phenomenon on a global scale and has a fundamental weight in national GDPs, the dialogue between recreational travel and the safeguarding of a discursive resource whose reinterpretations and reappropriations reflect the current political power has shown itself to have a fragile and volatile balance. A legacy subject to strategies of transition, adaptation, maintenance and/or reformulation, colonial heritage is a means of building culture and defining identities, an enabler of the integration of tourism into history, becoming part of it and a powerful element of multilateral cooperation and alliance between countries with a temporarily common past.

This is a subject of great debate among peers and so the aim is to produce a corpus of critical knowledge with an impact on tourist practices, thus responding to a societal challenge that leverages citizen science, resilience and effective alterity.

 

THEMES

  1. Colonial Heritage: Representation, Memory and Interpretation through Tourism
  • Authenticity and integrity of colonial heritage
  • Memory policies and challenges in addressing the colonial legacy through heritage tourism
  • Interpreting and presenting the colonial heritage to tourists through new technologies

 

  1. Cultural Exchange, Cross-Cultural Encounters and Post-Colonial Identities
  • Impact of colonialism on local cultures, and reencounter and dialogue between post-colonial nations through heritage tourism
  • Contribution of colonial heritage to post-colonial identity formation
  • Heritage tourism: new forms of cultural imperialism, or a means of interculturality?

 

  1. Power, Heritage, Memory and Tourism
  • Political power and tourism: colonial heritage as an ideological instrument
  • Memory tourism and heritage: a form of otherness and cooperation in the global world
  • Tourism and heritage: reencounter of cultures

 

  1. Management and Community Engagement Practices in Colonial Heritage Contexts
  • Community involvement in fostering local ownership together with the preservation and sustainable management of colonial heritage
  • Economic benefits and social impacts of responsible colonial heritage tourism
  • Repurposing of heritage of Portuguese influence in the world for tourism

 

The language of the congress is English to encourage both constructive communication between participants and international dissemination. Presentation 15 minutes; discussion 5 minutes. The language of the articles is English.

 

All the information about the Congress/Publication in website: https://tourismheritage.wixsite.com/2026

or https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/artravel (and click on TravelconT and then AGENDA)

 

If you have any queries about the Congress, please feel free to contact us: congress2026@sapo.pt

If you have any queries about the indexed journal, please contact the journal directly: thijournal@isce.pt

 

We look forward to your valuable contribution and to welcoming you to Lisbon in April 2026!

 

The Organizing Committee,

Tourism and Colonial Heritage: The Reencounter of Cultures

congress2026@sapo.pt