Program (provisional)

  • Welcome & Opening Remarks

    Innsbruck Vice-Mayor Georg Willi, UIBK Vice-Rector Dirk Rupnow (UIBK), and UNO Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Gordon “Nick” Mueller

  • Keynote Address: Louisiana Lt. Governor Lt. Billy Nungesser

    Louisiana Tourism & Cultural Tourism

  • Keynote Address: Joe Pine, Cofounder, Strategic Horizons LLP

    Tourism: From Experiences to Transformations

  • Break

  • Cultural Tourism: Trends and Challenges

    Chair: Joe Pine, Cofounder, Strategic Horizons LLP

    Carrie Broussard, Assistant Secretary, Office of Cultural Development, State of Louisiana.
    Growing Culture from Within: How Louisiana Turns Heritage Into Tourism

    Christine Maria Keth, Managing Director of Innsbruck Incoming & Convention Bureau
    Innsbruck Tourism Profile and Overview

    Daniel Hammer, President & CEO, Historic New Orleans Collection
    Preserving the Historic Value of the French Quarter: A Museum-Centered Strategy for one of America’s Most Famous Places

  • Lunch Break

  • Sustainable Tourism

    Chair: Marc Landry, Associate Professor of History UNO

    Mike Peters, Professor, Dept. of Management and Marketing, University of Innsbruck
    Environmental Aspects of Sustainability

    Bridget Bordelon, Professor and Endowed Chair, Dept. of Hospitality Management, UNO
    Designing Inclusive Cultural Events: Accessibility as Sustainable Practice

    Robert Steiger, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck
    Climate Change and Tourism

    Bernhard Bauer, Professor, Head of Department of International Tourism and Event Management, SRH University Campus Heidelberg
    No Culture, No Future: The Neglected Key to Sustainability in Tourism

  • Break

  • Sports Tourism

    Chair: Bridget Bordelon, Professor and Endowed Chair, Dept. of Hospitality Management UNO

    Martin Schnitzer, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Sports Science, University of Innsbruck
    Effects of Large Sporting Events: The Winter Olympics

    David Mueller, Associate Vice President for Corporate Sponsorships, Ochsner Medical Center & Executive Committee Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation
    Impact of the 2025 New Orleans Super Bowl: Economic and Cultural

    Wolfgang Meixner, Asst. Prof. Dept. of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck
    History of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck

  • Reception Madonnensaal

    Refreshments, International Doctoral School (IDC) Tourism and Leisure in Mountain Regions - PhD Poster Session, and Concluding Reflections from Joe Pine

  • Welcome Remarks

    University of New Orleans President Kathy Johnson

  • Keynote Address: Mark Romig, Senior Advisor, New Orleans & Company and Senior Advisor Ehrhardt Group

  • Break

  • Mobility & Tourism

    Chair: Mark Romig, Senior Advisor, New Orleans & Company and Senior Advisor, the Ehrhardt Group

    Markus Mailer, Professor, Dept. of Transport and Transport Systems, University of Innsbruck

    Dwight Norton, Chief Planning and Capital Projects Officer, New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA), New Orleans

    Matthias Triendl, Verkehrsverbund Tyrol

    Philipp Rehberger, Tirol Werbung

  • Lunch Break

  • Trends in International Education Programs and Partnerships

    Chair: Günther Bischof, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of History, University of New Orleans, Economic and Cultural Aspects of Study Abroad - Innsbruck
    Economic and Cultural Aspects of Study Abroad

    Michael Burri, Program Officer and Editor, Journal of Austrian-American History, The Botstiber Foundation

    Hermann Agis, Executive Director, Fulbright Austria

    Karin Emprechtinger, Executive Director, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation

    Franz-Stefan Meissel, Director, University of Vienna Summer School for International and European Studies

  • Break

  • Back to the Future Roundtable: 50th Anniversary of the UNO International Summer School and the UNO/UIBK Partnership

    Chairs: Gerhard Rampl, Marc Landry

    Gordon “Nick” Mueller, Founding President and CEO Emeritus, The National World War II Museum, New Orleans
    How the Summer School Started 50 Years Ago

    Erich Thöni, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck
    History of the Friendship Treaty

    Franz Mathis, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Economic and Social History, University of Innsbruck
    The Innsbruck Side

    Margaret Davidson, Asst. Professor and Director, Academic Year Abroad, UNO
    Summer School and AYA

    Guenter Bischof, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of History, UNO
    30th Anniversary Innsbruck - New Orleans Partnership & Highlighted Research – Center Austria

  • Closing Reception/Dinner

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