EcoTours - Agritourism - Conference Programme

Yacine Khelladi (yacine@AACR.NET)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:47:37 -0700

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Conference Programme

Paper Presenter
1. The Strategic Importance of
Sustainability - niche marketing to Bernard Lane. Director of The Rural
sustain environment and community Tourism Unit, University of Bristol
2. Finance for Agritourism Marketing -
who pays? - a vision for Ulf Brangenfeldt, econ. Agr. Univ.
sustainability of Uppsala, President, Ecovast
3. Poland - Case Study - vision for
marketing development Spokesman for new Polish strategy.
4. The role of the state in tourism
marketing - the agritourism sector Icelandic Ministry of Communications
5. Spain - Case Study - grass roots
marketing initiatives - commercial Klaus Ehrlich, director RAAR,
operation Andalucia
6. Hungary - Case Study - broad-based
marketing co-operation at national Maria Bene, Director Falusi
level Turismus, Budapest
7. Strategy for Agritourism - Three
Baltic States - preview of joint Asnate Ziemele President of Latvian
strategy Country Holidays
8. Quality Definition and Control - Maria Meier Gresshoff - Eurogites
latest developments in Germany and a former president, expert in farm
European perspective tourism development.

9. Long Haul Marketing for Agri/rural Linda Fleet - New Zealand Tourist
Tourism Board - Regional manager UK and
Nordic
10. Telematics for Agritourism Paul Richardson - Director, IFH
Marketing - fact and fiction Tours
Unto Palminkski, director Lomarengas
11. Reservation and Information by & Jouko Parviainen, Finnish
Environmental Ltd

Those supporting or participating in the conference will include the
following:Icelandic Ministry of Agriculture, Icelandic Ministry of
Communications (Tourism), Icelandair, Ecovast (European Committee for the
Village and the Small Town).

Conference management will be handled by IFH TOURS, a tour operator handling
all land arrangements but with a speciality in domestic and international
marketing and sales for the agritourism product.There will be speakers from
eight countries, seven from Europe and one from New Zealand. The conference
language will be English. The conference speeches will be published in a
forthcoming edition of The Journal of Sustainable Tourism subject to
approval by the board of editors.

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