Day 1 
​8 October, Friday 
13.00 - 17.00 CET/ 14.00-18.00 EET  


Day 2 
​​9 October, Saturday
10 -12 CET/11-13 EET




Track chair:
Prof. Renata Tomljenović ,  Institut za turizam, Zagreb, Croatia

Track co-chair:

Rationale

the track is aiming to discuss new emerging topics and form of tourism development in COVID times with concrete implementation options and projects
  • Challenges and opportunities for tourism in COVID time 
  • Digitalization and Smart Tourism - new opportunities, exchange of experiences
  • New forms of tourism and rethinking and mobilizing traditions forms of tourism
  • Benefit  of new forms of tourism to local society and integration of new business solutions
  • International / Nordic and Northern European connections and matchmaking
  • Concrete implementation and demonstrations
  • Projects

Objectives 
  • to identify new forms of tourism that can be put in to practical implementation
  • to collect and to identify and to promote possibilities of DNRW tourists staying on Mljet island of season for a longer time
  • to develop partnership local and international partners to develop pilot project on  DNRW friendly Mljet islands

TRACK AGENDA


Introduction to new forms of tourism and Digital Nomads  
  • New forms of tourism, remote work as an opportunity to develop safe, socially responsible sustainable tourism on islands, rural areas and in small cities.
  • presentations of touristic services by islands, rural communities, tourist broads
  • Best practices,  and experiences of rural areas and islands
  • Digital Nomads and Remote Workers (DNRW) tourism
 
Mljet presentation as DNRW friendly island
 
New forms of tourism
  • Thematic tourism
  • Cultural tourism
  • Gastro tourism
  • Artistic residencies
  • Volunteering tourism business cases, examples and new opportunities
  • Tourism and peacekeeping
  • Homes exchange touristic program
 
Tourism Integration
  • Social entrepreneurship and volunteering tourism  vs thematic tourism for rural/islands communities and schools
  • Smart Tourism
 
Technical and operational aspects
  • Digitalization and role of ICT , Data Analytics and digital tools in tourism and marketing
  • Tourists Health safety for 2021 summer autumn tours
 
Cooperation and marketing channel
  • Finnish, Central Baltic,  N. European tourism agencies presentations and experiences
  • thematic tourism opportunities (could be put online) from Baltic and Adriatic regions/islands
 
Implementation
  • Session on discussion of common interests , cooperation possibilities , new projects )open for proposals)
  • Marketing matchmaking session (on line tools to be activated)
  • partnership for DNRW friendly island


Panel session
DNRW freindly islands and digital villages - what is needed to make it work ? 
Moderator:
Panelists:

TRACK OUTCOME
  • Repository of touristic offers from islands and LAG5 , Konavle rural areas including  volunteering, digital nomads, cultural, education, schools exchange tourism (to be put on line) 
  • Discussions and participants views of business perspectives and feasibility of new forms of tourism development *thematic tourism, volunteering tourism, artistic ,scientific c residency) 
input to implementation session : 
  • Discussion of common interests , cooperation possibilities , new projects (open for proposals) for Digital Village on Smart DNRW friendly  islands 
  • Marketing matchmaking session (on line tools to be activated), marketing channels proposals review , SWOT
  • local business and project , partnership proposals, cooperation projects development
  • staring community building for Digital Village on Smart DNRW friendly  islands  partnership for DNRW friendly island (local and international) in cooperation with TRACK 2 (Science)