Keynote speakers
Marie Delaplace Professor emeritus
Marie Delaplace holds a doctorate (1994) and a habilitation to direct research (2009) in economics, both from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, focusing on the territorial registration of various types of innovations (IT, biopolymers, high-speed transport, services) across different areas. Currently, as a professor emeritus at Université Gustave Eiffel, she conducts research at Lab'urba on local economic development and the conflicts related to the Olympic Games, tourism, and high-speed rail. She has published approximately 80 articles in academic journals, 25 book chapters, and contributions to books on these topics. She co-edited ‘Planning the Paris 2024 Olympic Games," Palgrave in 2024; ‘Vocabulaire du discours touristique," PUQ, in 2022; ‘Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates, and Controversy," Routledge in 2020; and ‘Touristes et habitants: Conflits, Complémentarités et Arrangements," Infolio in 2017. Additionally, she has presented over 90 papers at international conferences. She co-founded the Observatory for Research on Mega-Events (ORME) in 2018 and, until 2021, co-directed the transversal research group on the city, tourism, transport, and territory within the Paris-Est LabEx Futurs Urbain. She is a member of the scientific committee overseeing the evaluation of Paris 2024. She served on the executive board of the Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française (ASRDLF) for nine years until 2021. For many years she represented the President of the Université Gustave Eiffel in the Association pour la Recherche et l'Enseignement Supérieur en Tourisme (AsTRES). With her colleagues, she has also directed research contracts related to the Olympic Games (Paris 2024, the City of Paris, and local stakeholders like Seine-et-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis), tourism (examining conflicts and complementarities between tourists and residents, event tourism, M-tourism, as well as the Olympics and tourism), and territorial development and sustainability linked to high-speed trains. She was also an expert for Efficacity regarding the ‘smart sustainable city’ label. She was a member of the ‘Advisory Panel for the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Research on the “Potential Influence of California High-Speed Rail on Economic Development, Land Use Patterns, and Future Growth of Cities” in 2022 and served on the advisory board for the research project “Paris 2024, Los Angeles 2028: A Turnaround for the Olympics after the Crisis?” conducted by M. Müller and S. D. Wolfe at the University of Lausanne from 2019 to 2022. She has been invited to give lectures and conduct research at various universities in France and abroad, including Yokohama City University (2024), Université de Lausanne (2023, 2022), Université de Polynésie française (2023, 2022), Université de Toulon (2022, 2020, 2019), Université de Québec à Montréal (2021), University of Toulouse (2020), National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), Embassy of Honduras, IFAC (2019), Taylor University of Kuala Lumpur and Toulouse Jean Jaurès (2017), Middle East Technical University in Ankara (2017), University of Castilla-La Mancha (Toledo, Ciudad Real) (2017), University of Alicante (2017), and University of Bordeaux IV (2015).
Dominic Lapointe Professor
Salvador Anton Clavé is Full Professor of Regional Geographic Analysis at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Catalonia. His research focuses on analyzing the evolution of tourist destinations, tourist attractions, and theme parks, as well as the spatial behavior of visitors, and the analysis of data for planning and decision-making in the field of tourism. He was a visiting senior research scholar at George Washington University's International Institute for Tourism Studies, and is currently director of tourism research at Eurecat, the Catalonia Technology Center. In 2021, he received the Roy Wolfe Award from the American Association of Geographers for his contributions to the discipline of tourism geography. Since 2022 he has been an elected member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, and is currently a jury member for the Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud.
Andrea Saayman
Andrea Saayman is professor of Economics at the North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa, and a visiting professor in Tourism Macroeconomics for the International Masters programme offered by the University of Bologna, Italy. She obtained her PhD in Economics in 2002 and is an internationally recognised researcher (B3) according to the South African National Research Foundation rating system. She is an applied econometrician, and her research interests are in the fields of Tourism Economics and Forecasting, as well as environmental valuation and sustainability. Her list of publications is extensive, with more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in international research journals. She was the President of the International Association for Tourism Economics (2020-2024) and is currently the vice-president of the Tourism and Hospitality Section of the International Institute of Forecasters (IFF). She is on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Economics and Journal of Sustainable Tourism. She has received research grants from the South African National Research Foundation, the European Union as well as the British Academy. During 2011 she received an award from the South African Minister of Trade and Industry as a distinguished young woman in Social Research in South Africa.
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