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- ASTMed - Mediterranean Association for the Sociology of Tourism

[SOCANTUR 2025
La Coruña (Spain)
June 11 to 13, 2025]
Call for abstracts

! Submission deadline: December 2 !

https://socantur.com/

[ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco,
6-11 July 2025]

"The Sea. Tourism between the Coast and the Maritime Space. an RC50 - Astmed Joint Session" has been accepted for the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology (Rabat, 6-11 July 2025)
More information about the session:

! Submission deadline: October 15 !

more information about the forum:

 

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ASTMed - Mediterranean Association for the Sociology of Tourism

    The Mediterranean Association for the Sociology of Tourism was founded in 1987 in Bologna to favour the sociological debate on tourism in the Mediterranean area. Over the 1970s and the 1980s some economic, political and environmental events weakened the expectations of continuity in the tourist development, at the national and international level. Crisis was particularly evident in the seaside holiday, the “heart” of mass tourism. After the “boom” in the 1950s and 1960s, there is a link between changes in tourist behavior and the ones in the social meaning of tourism: new motivations were emerging, and new approaches are required to understand them. Here the role of sociology emerged. After some international debate, the similarity between Italian and Mediterranean problems was recognized and connected to changes in economic production and to the everyday life of European societies. If we consider the transition from industrial to post-industrial society, local phenomena had to be seen in relation to wider trends in the Mediterranean region. At the end of the 1980s, as a result, the foundation of the Mediterranean Association for the Sociology of Tourism was a try to study these new trends. All the congresses of the Association constantly compared the development of cities and areas interested in tourism in the Mediterranean region, trying to connect them to wider trends of social life, the globalization of economy, culture, and the tourist market.

X International ASTMed conference
Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena, Italy)
19th-20th-21st of
June 2024
Beyond the Tourism?
Travels and travellers in the (post)covid society
 

Conférence

The Xth AstMED conference came to a close on Friday 21 June. The meeting brought together more than 40 researchers from various universities in Mediterranean countries, in a studious and very friendly atmosphere. 8 thematic sessions took stock of the issue driving the debates: travels and travellers in the post-Covid society. These papers will be published later this year. 

The association's general meeting, held during the congress on the evening of Thursday 20 June, elected a new board and a new executive committee:

President: Gabriele Manella, University of Bologna.

Honorary Presidents: Asterio Savelli, University of Bologna; Marie-Françoise Lanfant, CNRS-Paris; Olga Iakovidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Board: Gilda Catalano, University of Calabria; Stella Kostopoulu, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Nataša Krivokapić, University of Montenegro; Ivona Jovanović, University of Montenegro; Emilio Cocco, University of Teramo; Camillo Tidore, University of Sassari; José Luis Paniza Prados, University of Granada.

Secretary: Philippe Clairay, University of Rennes 2.

Many new exciting projects were presented! 
Stay tuned!

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AstMED Xe conference CEUB-Bertinoro

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AstMED Xe conference CEUB-Bertinoro

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AstMED Xe conference Bertinoro (CEUB) ex-President Natasa Krivokapic and President Gabriele Manella

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AstMED Xe conference Bertinoro (CEUB)

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AstMED Xe conference Bertinoro (CEUB) Tullio Romita, Natasa Krivokapic and Asterio Savelli, AstMED ex-presidents.

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AstMED Xe conference Bertinoro (CEUB)

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AstMED Xe conference Bertinoro by night

About the ASTMed

History of the Mediterranean Association for the Sociology of Tourism 

Call for papers

 International Conference Roots Tourism

Università della Calabria e Università di Napoli Federico II

Arcavacata di Rende (CS)

12-15 Dicembre 2024

Deadline for replies: 17 June 2024


 

Publications

Conference proceedings of our last congress, held in Kotor (Montenegro) in October 2019

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Slow and fast tourism
Travellers, Local Communities, Territories, Experiences

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Preface

Datas

Web Links

https://www.unwto.org/

The World Tourism Organization is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.

 

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/tourism

Eurostat-tourism produces European statistics in partnership with National Statistical Institutes and other national authorities in the EU Member States. This partnership is known as the European Statistical System (ESS). It also includes the statistical authorities of the European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland.

 

https://www.enit.it/en

ENIT | Italian National Tourist Board 

Female Speaker

Contacts

President:

Gabriele MANELLA

Associate Professor Department of Sociology 

University of Bologna

gabriele.manella@unibo.it

Secretary:

Philippe CLAIRAY

Associate member Université de Rennes 2

clairay.philippe@orange.fr 

ASTMed board composition:

President: Gabriele Manella, University of Bologna.

Honorary Presidents: Asterio Savelli, University of Bologna; Marie-Françoise Lanfant, CNRS-Paris; Olga Iakovidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Board: Gilda Catalano, University of Calabria; Stella Kostopoulu, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Nataša Krivokapić, University of Montenegro; Ivona Jovanović, University of Montenegro; Emilio Cocco, University of Teramo; Camillo Tidore, University of Sassari; José Luis Paniza Prados, University of Granada.

Secretary: Philippe Clairay, University of Rennes 2.

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