About conference

Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality – CTTH 2017 is an International conference regarding research in tourism, leisure, hotel management, hunting tourism, gastronomy and multidisciplinary studies such are events and meeting industry, entrepreneurship in hospitality, creative industries etc.

The CTTH is traditionally organised since 1997 and for the 17th time this year. Until 2009 it was annual, when it was rearranged as biennial event. So far the scientific meeting comprised the following topics: contemporary tendencies in tourism, sustainable tourism development, cultural tourism, economical aspects of tourism and leisure, marketing and management, hotel management, specific forms of tourism, animation and logistics in tourism, hunting tourism issues, hospitality and gastronomy.

The main aim of the conference is to put emphasis on the importance of cultural and event tourism as important factors for improvement of tourism and general economic image of certain country or region.

This year the working title of the conference is ’’New Spaces in Cultural Tourism’’ and the Conference is merged with one of the most exciting festival in Novi Sad – The Street Musicians Festival because we want to emphasize how New spaces – the refinement of streets and city public spaces that possess valuable architectural heritage, but also the decentralization of the city’s cultural offer and specific cultural contributions to the local community – are very important for cultural tourism.

So far, the colorful lineup of the Street Musicians Festival brings to Novi Sad an ever larger number of tourists. The importance this event holds over tourism is also justified by the Tourist Flower Award, which the Tourist Organization of Serbia awarded the festival in 2007, for outstanding contribution to “cultural events in service of tourism”. More information on the festival could be found on their official web site.

During the conference we want to talk on the subject of how the new spaces can enrich the tourist offer of one settlement. With working title of this conference we want to encourage scientists involved in tourism to think about the new spaces in broader context which are intended for development of cultural tourism. The new spaces represent all those parts of one settlement which are not sufficiently promoted and engaged for tourism promotion. We can point out areas and objects of industrial heritage, objects and environmental entities who are under the protection and alternative spaces used by young people for meetings and gatherings. Under the new premises we mean new concepts, beliefs, views, new strategies that can lead to improvements in the quality and intensity of tourist visits.

As a result, at the conference, will set aside a special session that will deal with the theme of new space in the context of the development of tourism and benefits for the local population (finance, cultural, social, psychological, technological, etc.).

Beside this topic, we warmly welcome contributors from diverse fields of management, business, tourism, hospitality, event management and creative industries to present their research in very broad thematic sessions.

We honestly invite you to submit papers and share your ideas which would certainly broaden the image of tourism, hospitality and multidisciplinary studies worldwide.

We look forward to meet you at the conference and on behalf of the Organizational board we wish you all the best!