2nd International ENAT- Congress: Trends and Prospects for Accesible Tourism - Austria Center Vienna - 30.09.2009 - 01.10.2009

Programme

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Program ENAT-Congress and ENAT- Board-Meeting

 

starting time

Location will be decided

Congress - Location: A C V

Board-Meeting: Location ÖHTB

 

29.09.09

30.09.09

01.10.09

02.10.09

 

08:00

 


Registration

 


 


 

09:15 - 10:30

Opening Ceremony

Plenary-Speeches

 

Meeting starting at 10:00

 

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee-Break

Coffee-Break

 

11:00 - 12:00

Plenary-Speeches

Round- table

 

Lunch

 

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

Closing Ceremony

 

Meeting

 

13:00-13:15

Plenary - Workshop Information

Lunch

 

13:15 - 15:00

Workshops and Presentations

 

 


 

15:00 - 15:30

ENAT-Board Meeting ÖHTB

Coffee-Break

starting at ~ 14:00 Excursions (transfer/fee has to be paid by participants) and/or Sightseeing (has to be paid by participants)

 

 

 

 

15:30 - ~17:30

 

Plenary - Workshop Reports

 

 

~17:30

Information about the evening event

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

19:00

casual „come together", self-payment

Official Reception  in the Town Hall

20:00

casual meeting with ENAT-board-members, self payment

 

 

20:00

 

 

21:00

 

 


Detailed Programme

September 30th, 2009

09:10 - 10:30

Opening Ceremony

Angelika Laburda, IBFT

Welcome Address (1)

Lilian Müller, President of ENAT

Welcome Address (2)

Christine Marek, state-secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Youth and Familiy

Welcome Address (3)

Alan Vella, National Expert, Tourism Unit, DG-Enterprise & Industry, European Commission

Welcome Address (4)

Christian Mutschlechner, Director of the Vienna Convention Bureau

Performance of "Ich bin OK"

Culture Association "I am O.K" http://www.ichbinok.at/

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee-Break

11:00 - 12:00

Plenary Session 1

Chaiman: Jesús Hernández Galán (ENAT Vice president, Fundación ONCE, Spain )

1. Speech: "I want to travel, but how? Cross border cooperation's and political reflections."
questions/discussion from the plenary

Lex Grandia, President of the World Federation of the DeafBlind together with William Green, President of Deafblind International

2. Speech: "Barrier-free Destinations in Germany" - a powerful alliance"
questions/discussion from the plenary

Carmen Hildebrandt, Erfurt Tourismus & Marketing GmbH

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:15

Workshops - short administrative Introduction

 

13:15 - 15:00

7 parallel workshops

Chairman: Lilian Müller

Accessible Tourism Kaleidoscope

(short presentations)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee-Break

15:30 - ~17:30

Plenary Session 2

Chairman: Mieke Broeders (ENAT Board Member, Toegankelijkheidsbureau Belgium)

Plenary - Workshop Reports, Discussion

~17:30

Information about the evening



October 1st, 2009

09:00 - 11:15

Plenary Session 3

Chairman: Dr.Irmgard Bauer (Head of Public Relations, Austrian national Council of Disabled Persons)

3. Speech Accessible Public Transport  - an advantage for everyone

Ing. Roland Krpata, Wr.Linien
(Public Transport System, Vienna)

4. Speech "Marketing Strategies"

Dimitrios Buhalis, Deputy Director, International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR), School of Services Management, Bournemouth University

5. Speech "Expectations and possibilities in standardisation and regulation for the further development of accessible tourism"

Erika Plevnik, ÖZIV - Österreichischer Zivil-Invalidenverband

Short Break 5 Minutes

6. Speech: "Servicing tourists with specific needs: towards synergies between public and private tourism sectors",

Annagrazia Laura, Consorzio Sociale COIN Società Cooperativa Social

7. Speech (no title at the time of printing)

Mohammed Al-Tarawneh,
(UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee-Break 

11:45 - 12:45

Plenary Session 4

Moderation: Ivor Ambrose, Managing Director of ENAT

Round table: "Accessible Tourism - What has to be done next"

Participants: Dimitrios Buhalis, Peter Neumann, Betty Dion (GAATES), Maria Aigner (Austrian Chamber of Commerce), Mieke Broeders, Wolfgang Kuhn (Salzburg Land Tourismus)

12:45 - 13:30

ENAT policy road map for accessible tourism - and final conclusions

Ivor Ambrose - Lilian Müller

Closing statement IBFT

Angelika Laburda, IBFT

13:30 - 14:00

Lunch 

~ 14:00 - ~ 18:00

Excursions, Sightseeing etc. 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
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