Doing Tourism Differently: Sustainability in Travel

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Invisible Cities is excited to invite travel and tourism professionals and experts, or simply anyone interested in sustainability and impact in travel to attend this event packed with great speakers, conversations and ideas!

The purpose of the day is to discuss how we can create impact through travel, how communities can get involved and or benefit from the development of tourism as a sector, or they can be involved in the design of activities, products etc.

We have designed the day so it includes presentations, panels and workshops, with breaks in between for hot drinks and lovely food.

Hosted by the lovely Bruntsfield Hotel in Edinburgh on September 27th, the day will be packed with different themes: see the full agenda below. Refreshments and lunch (vegetarian) will be provided.

Your ticket will not only give you access to the full day but will also support the work we do at Invisible Cities, training more people who have experience homelessness in the UK.

First of all our emcee for the day will be Sian Downes, an award-winning event planner and social entrepreneur. She will keep attendees right when it comes to timing, question asking and information taking.

The day will look like the following:

9:30 to 10am ARRIVALS: Breakfast will be available

10am START of the day by Sian Downes & Introduction remarks: Zakia Moulaoui Guery- Invisible Cities Founder & CEO

10.30am - 11.00am Visit scotland- Why sustainability is important to our industry

11.00am - 11.30am Shaon Talykder/ Geotourist- How to measure sustainability through data.

COFFEE BREAK

12.15pm-1pm Panel Discussion : How to make tourism more diverse & accessible?
-Euans Guide
-Passion4Social
-Dr Constantia Anastasiadou- Napier Univesity

LUNCH

2pm- 2.20pm Words from our sponsors: Edinburgh City Pass

2.20pm - 3pm Peter Wilson/LeithForth: What cruise liners can bring to Leith in Edinburgh

3pm - 3.45pm Workshop 1: Creating authentic stories in travel- LIVE WORKSHOP by Catherine Warrilow ( This is available to up to 20 people only and we will need confirmation of your attendance when you purchase a ticket)

OR Panel on Community Tourism Examples
-Marketing Manchester
-SCOTO

3.45pm Closing remarks

From 4pm Networking over tea, coffee and cake!

Upon purchasing your ticket, the full agenda with speaker bios will be sent to you directly.

This event is kindly sponsored by Edinburgh City Pass: a locally crafted product designed to help our visitors to see more and save more.