Topic of the week: OECD Conference on Innovation and Tourism

On September 18-19, 2003 took place in Lugano, Switzerland, the most interesting conference on Innovation and Tourism I found out till now.

I found it through Nathan Rosenberg, one of these American gurus on innovation research that has these details that I love, like answering someone they’ve never heard about that asks for innovation policies on tourism.

Though the content includes more or less expectable conclusions, next papers were specially interesting for me:

  • Explanation of the link between innovation and economic growth, by Rosenberg, also in touristic sectors
  • Point of view by Xavier Décelle (Paris), where he outlines specific features and focus on innovation in tourism
  • Quite interesting explanation of the link between innovation and product improvement by Weiermair (Innsbruck)
  • Presentation of several cases of innovation policy definition or application in Australia, France, Korea and Malta

You can find more information and the conference papers if you type “OECD innovation tourism lugano” on Google. I think any stakeholder on tourism can find a lot of interesting information on these papers.

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