We welcome you to Helsinki, Finland, where the 15th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations is held on 5-6 June 2021 (postponed). Theme of the conference is Advancing Responsible Tourism. The conference venues are in different locations in the beatiful city of Helsinki. Share your experiences #rtdfinland2021

The tourism sector meets new challenges with vast economic, ecological, social, cultural and political changes confronting us. These changes call for the swift development of solutions to mitigate or to adapt to them. They also shape customers’ expectations and quality requirements; we fail to meet those changing expectations at our peril. Globally tourism industry struggles with overcrowding and overtourism, the consequence of our very success as an industry. For example, the cruise industry comes with positive and negative impacts and is one of the hot issues in overtourism discussion. Carbon is one of the key challenges in tourism, not only for transportation, our industry is very dependent on cheap fossil fuels.

Advancing Responsible Tourism

Tackling these challenges means creating new operational solutions for Responsible Tourism. The Responsible Tourism in Destinations Finland conference invites you to Helsinki, Finland on 5-6 June 2021 with the theme Advancing Responsible Tourism. The conference will focus on solutions in decarbonising travel and tourism, introduces possibilities to apply sustainable CleanTech innovations in tourism and presents opportunities in preventing overtourism. The conference will enable those taking part to assess the effectiveness of the Finnish approach to taking responsibility to achieve sustainability by introducing the Sustainable Travel Finland programme.


The conference is organised by the ICRT Finland, led by JAMK University of Applied Sciences, partnering with Visit Finland.

Call for papers

Responsible Tourism in Destinations Finland wishes to receive presentations especially on practical cases, academic research, reports on work in progress discussing the themes of the conference. Deadline for abstracts March 2021.

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What?

This conference is about discussing and finding practical responsible solutions for challenges within tourism business. This will be an excellent opportunity to acknowledge and discuss tourism development not only in Finland, but in several different destinations in the world.

To whom?

We welcome specialists and colleagues devoted to formulate and implement responsible tourism actions and projects to find and share solutions to advance responsible tourism.

Why?

The RTD conference gives the participants a possibility to develop their global perspective through sharing experiences of international tourism operators, trade, specialists and academics on different topics linked to the main theme. The conference also provides a great opportunity for networking and enjoying the Nordic white nights in Finland.

 

Venue and Info

The conference is held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland with visits to Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, a Unesco World Heritage Site, and the award winning library Oodi.

Registration

See registration fees and instructions.

Blinnikka Petra

Blinnikka Petra

Lehtori, Senior Lecturer
Matkailu ja palvelut sekä YAMK, Tourism and Service Business and Master´s Degrees
Liiketoiminta, School of Business
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Organisers

The conference is being organised by the ICRT Finland, led by JAMK University of Applied Sciences, partnering with Visit Finland and ICRTHub.

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ICRT Finland       

Summer School: Responsible Tourism Finland

The conference is a part of our Responsible Tourism Finland Summer School programme organised by JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences and ICRTHub /Responsible Tourism Partnership.