Date

Program

17 September, Tuesday

13:00            Open Registration Desk

14:00-15:00  ITSA Board meeting

15:30-16:30  Young Scholars & Philip Pearce TRINERGY Program (ITSA-IJTC)

18:00-19:30   Welcome Reception & Networking

18 September, Wednesday

08:30              Open Registration Desk

09:00-09:30    Opening Ceremony 

09:30-10:50    Keynotes #1 & #2

10:50-11:20    Coffee Break

11:20-13:00    Parallel sessions I

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:20-15:30    Parallel sessions II

15:30-15:50    Coffee break

15:50-16:50    ITSA General Meeting – available to current ITSA members and those interested in becoming members

19:30-23:00      Gala Dinner

19 September, Thursday

Field trips, including lunch, 1 snack break: 

09:00-15:00      Tour A : Baltic Coastline Tour

09:00-15:00      Tour B: Gauja Natioal Park Exploration

09:00-17:00      Tour C : Valmiera

09:00-13:00      Tour D : Riga by Bike

20 September, Friday

09:00-09:40      Keynote #3 – Who governs smart cities? Urban Commons as a community process. (Ilona Beliatskaya, Junior Research Fellow, Estonian Business School)

09:40-11:10         Parallel sessions III

11:10-11:30         Coffee break

11:30-13:00         Parallel sessions IV

13:00-13:15         Voting for the best presentation and paper

13:15-14:15         Lunch break

14:15-15:15         IJTC Information Meeting – available to potential authors, reviewers, board members, and others interested in the International Journal of Tourism Cities

15:15-15:55         Keynote #4

15:55-16:30         Closing part & the Best Presentation Award

16:30                    Coffee break & Goodbye