News 2022

Student4Student Summer School September 5^thto 9^th

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Part of the IMC2022 (International Mountain Conference), the Student4Student Summer School has also took place this year from September 5^th to 9^th in Obergurgl, Austria.

Around 80 PhD students across the globe, including India, Cameroon, Spain, and France, presented their mountain research. The topics were diverse and interdisciplinary, including "natural hazards; glacier, climate, hydro; mountain biology; mountain atmosphere; mountain tourism."

Three sessions with thirteen contributions were planned in the field of mountain tourism: corporate regional responsibility sustainable transition, intangible cultural heritage, cultural tourism in the mountains, and open tourism sessions.

The aim of the international exchange was to learn from each other how to accompany and implement mountain tourism developments. Such initiatives also allow us to succeed in linking European Alpine tourism research with international research.

The subsequent IMC Conference took place in Innsbruck with a total of almost 800 participants.

Link to summer school: https://www.imc2022.info/summerschool/

Link to IMC: https://www.imc2022.info/

Inns must keep up with the times

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Alexander Plaikner from the Research Centre for Tourism and Leisure has been working intensively for the past two years on the death of inns (guest houses) in Tyrol. In the final report of the research initiative, he now presents an inventory of the challenges that Tyrolean inns are currently facing. The report also delivers possible solutions.

https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/gasthauser-mussen-mit-der-zeit-gehen.html.de

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Our interregional-Austria-Italy project in Die Presse. This project is completed and motivated by further project initiatives in Austria and Tyrol.

Click here for the report: Die Presse

On the trail of the death of the inn:

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In the course of their bachelor's thesis, Katharina and Barbara Weiskopf attempted to determine what future potential traditional inns have, and how to stem their demise.

Listen to the Podcast:

https://www.liferadio.tirol/podcasts/der-life-radio-wissenschaftspodcast/

Marius Mayer

Dr. Marius Mayer, former research associate at the Institute for Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, and who was awarded the prestigious Science Award for Human Geography by the Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss Foundation for Geography in December 2021.

Read the report:

https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/wissenschaftspreis-fuer-humangeographie-verliehen.html.de

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