Prof. Scott Cohen
Keynote title: Lifestyle mobilities: Past, present and future
Scott Cohen is a Professor of Tourism and Transport with over 20 years of academic experience. He is presently Invited Full Professor at the University of Algarve, Portugal. Scott’s research is primarily focused on societal issues in the contexts of travel, mobility and transport, with particular interests in hypermobility, sustainable mobility, autonomous vehicles and in business and lifestyle travel. He publishes regularly across high impact business, social science and environmental science journals. Scott is a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and the International Association for China Tourism Studies.
Prof. Jafar Jafari
Keynote title: Intelligence Mobilities: Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice
Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science Series; Co-editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET; Founding President of International Academy for the Study of Tourism; and Tourism Intelligence Forum. A cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Minnesota, USA), with BA (English, University of Isfahan, Iran) and BS and MS (hotel and tourism management, Cornell University, USA), he is the recipient of the 2005 UNWTO Ulysses Prize, with Honorary Doctorates from Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), and Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), Lifetime Honorary Professorship of Bundelkhand University (India), Visiting Professor of the University of Isfahan (Iran), Sun Yat-sen University (China), Special Advisor to the UNWTO Secretary General, and Professor Emeritus of University of Wisconsin-Stout (USA).