Dear Friends,

We are delighted to share the success of the IFITT Turkey Chapter Summer School & Summit, hosted in Izmir, Turkey, and streamed online from August 18th to August 21st, 2022.

The Summer School & Summit was led by the IFITT Turkey Chapter. The aim of the events, entitled “On the Way To Human-Centered Tourism Technologies’ Future”,  was to attract the interest of business life and sector professionals,  academia and of course, students. Together, they discussed discuss what place technology and digitalization will have in the future of tourism and how to reach prosperity, peace, and harmony. The event aimed at creating a tourism aspect which may take many points based on culture, equity, innovation, integration, diversity, sustainability, quality and of course on peace that we need to understand deeply together today.

The lectures, presentations, workshops and discussions were dedicated to the following topics:

– Cyber security and tourism,
– circular economy and circular tourism,
– digital nomads,
– energy management and tourism in hotel management,
– gamification in tourism,
– gastronomy 4.0,
– green tourism technologies,
– metaverse in tourism – effects of metaverse technology on tourism – metaverse reality in tourism,
– reality technologies as a destination in tourism,
– tourism in tourism sharing economy and sustainability,
– smart tourism applications, smart city, smart society, smart tourism,
– storytelling in tourism,
– sustainable tourism, area management and planning,
– technologies applied in destination management,
– tourism technologies chronological process,
– tourism and society 5.0 relationship – tourism 4.0 and society 5.0-
– technology use in the gastronomy sector,
– virtual tours,
– virtual event management in congresses and fairs,
– wearable technologies in tourism – the use of wearable technology in tourism,

 

The detailed program, are available at the website of IFITT Turkey Chapter: http://www.ifittturkiye.org/