Environmental impacts of tourism and Sustainable tourism development 

This session welcomes contributions related but not limited to the following topics:

•  Sustainable and integrated spatial planning and management of tourism development 

• Economic, social, environmental, cultural and political impacts of tourism development 

• Approaches in relation to the theory and practice linking tourism and sustainability 

• Tools and techniques in sustainable tourism development 

• The role of stakeholders in tourism planning 

• Strategic planning of tourism  

• Protected areas and sustainable tourism planning 

• Alternatives forms of tourism 

• Rural Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development 

• Tourism and interactions with climate change 

• Sustainable tourism and marketing 

• Spatial planning, resilience and tourism development 

Convener: 

Dimitra Vagiona, Associate Professor, Department of Spatial Planning and Development, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (dimvag@plandevel.auth.gr )

Georgia Pozoukidou, Assistant Professor, Department of Spatial Planning and Development, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (gpozoukid@plandevel.auth.gr )