This document summarizes the changes in tourism and the AIEST conference from 1979 to 2019. In 1979, the AIEST conference was held in Varna, Bulgaria and focused on manpower in tourism. Topics of discussion included education and training of tourism employees. In 2019, the AIEST conference returned to Varna after 40 years and focused on more advanced topics like business models for sustainable growth, frontier tourism theories and practices, and the advances in tourism research. Over the four decades, the topics of discussion at the AIEST conference evolved to keep up with the changes in the tourism industry and advancements in research.

1. WELCOME ADDRESS
Stanislav Ivanov
Email: stanislav.ivanov@vumk.eu
Web: http://stanislavivanov.com
69th AIEST Conference of Ideas 2019
25th-29th August 2019, Varna, Bulgaria

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After 40 years AIEST
is back to Varna and
Bulgaria!
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The world has changed
since 1979
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Source: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5b9iH8FvO4Q/UB56eZL14PI/AAAAAAAAAT0/3lRQaIj-MG0/s1600/political_map_europe.jpg

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Source: http://ontheworldmap.com/europe/europe-map-max.jpg

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World population size = 4.358 billion
World GDP = $10 trillion
• Share of China = 1.92%

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World population size = 7.725 billion
World GDP = $86 trillion (2018 data)
• Share of China = 15.86%

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World Wide Web
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How did tourism change?
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More tourists

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Changed directions of tourists flows

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Safer travel

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Of course, not everything
changed …
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How did tourism studies
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Most cited papers published in ATR in 1979:
• Motivations for pleasure vacation
• The framework of tourism. Towards a definition of tourism,
tourist, and the tourist industry
• Rethinking the sociology of tourism
• The image of the Third World in tourism marketing
• Towards a geography of tourism
• Photograph's role in tourism. Some unexplored
relationships
• Social planning for tourism in the developing countries
• Tourist satisfaction. Uses and misuses
• The impact of tourism on a dependent island. Gozo, Malta
• Women the taste-makers in tourism

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Selected papers published in ATR in 2019:
• Utopia as a reinforcement of tourist experiences
• Is the World Heritage just a title for tourism?
• Harnessing the “wisdom of employees” from online
reviews
• Forecasting tourism demand with denoised neural
networks
• RevPAR vs. GOPPAR: Property- and firm-level analysis
• Not in my backyard? Is the anti-Airbnb discourse truly
warranted?
• ‘Fake news’ meets tourism: a proposed research agenda

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Selected papers published in ATR in 2019:
• The impact of terrorism on European tourism
• The xenophobic tourist
• Tourism & death
• Global tourism vulnerability to climate change
• Space travel and the limits to growth
• Nudged by a robot: Responses to agency and feedback
• Tourism publications as newly tradeable commodities:
Academic performance, prestige, power, competition,
constraints and consents
• The impact of tourism research

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How did AIEST conference
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Period: 2-8 September 1979
Location: Drouzhba/Varna, Bulgaria
Topic: Manpower in Tourism
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(Translation) 29th Congress of tourism experts
Varna, 3rd September (BTA) - the 29th Congress of the International Association
of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST) was started today in Drouzhba resort.
This forum is held on the occasion of the Balkan Year of Tourism, bringing
together tourism experts from 19 countries in Europe, Africa, and America.
The Congress was opened by the President of the International Association, Prof.
Claude Kaspar.
The potential future opportunities for the development of Bulgarian tourism were
presented to the Congress participants. In addition to the Bulgarian
representatives' reports, several films were also shown to the audience, including a
tourism promotional documentary, an international co-production of the Balkan
countries.
Within 5 days, professionals and scientific experts in tourism will be discussing the
problems in education and qualification of tourism employees.
The guests will get acquainted with the tourist super- and infrastructure, the
resorts and the attractions of the Bulgarian Black Sea coastline.

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Period: 25-29 August 2019
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Streams of Discussion:
• Business models for sustainable growth in tourism
• Tourism Frontiers: Theories, Practices,
Methodologies
• AIEST's Advances in Tourism Research:
Perspectives of Actors, Institutions and Systems.
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The discussion topics
evolved,
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Because we are AIEST
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Добре дошли!
Welcome!
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