Tourisme Summits | eighth summit | abstracts

List of speakers

Wednesday, December 6th 2006

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Opening session

Private cars in the tourist regions : a problem to be resolved

Session chaired by Françoise DEVOUASSOUX

How will the Rhône-Alpes region address the issue of tourist transport? (Sylvie GILLET DE THOREY)

The problem of transport at a large resort: what is the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc strategy? (Michel CHARLET)

Brief introduction to the themes of the Summits (Peter KELLER)

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Inaugural Debate

Desired changes and current realities
Can tourists go without their private cars during their holidays?

Session chaired by Claude COMET

Climate changes and tourism? (Martine REBETEZ)

Travel behaviour in th german tourism market: are there target groups for sustainable tourism? (Konrad GÖTZ)

Tourist and leisure mobility confronted with sustaiinale development: 2050 horizon scenarios... In spite of the plans, is there a genuine desire to take action? (Jean-Paul CERON)

Tourism, transport and global climate change (François-Marie BREON)

Thursday, December 7th 2006

First Debate

The journey: From the place of origin to the destination
How can we make the journey shorter, less expensive and more sustainable?

Session chaired by Enrico MARTINET

Optimising the use of low-cost airlines for local and regional economic development and tourism (Marc AMOUDRY)

Combined transport: what consequences could investment in railway infrastructure have on tourism development? The case of the new Lötschberg base tunnel (François SEPPEY)

The Gotthard tunnel and the Porta Alpina or Gotthard project : what will be the impact of the largest tunnel in the world? (Eugen ARPAGAUS)

Second Debate

Means of transport to make the stay "sustainable"
How do you manage mobility between resorts and within each resort to create a competitive advantage for the tourism of tomorrow?

Session chaired by Alain BOULOGNE

Going without a car: how do you make tourist transport more sustainable? (Peter BRANDAUER)

« Coaster » : Transport from the conventional way to move to an extraordinary event (Florian OBERFORCHER)

How do we resolve the public transport problems at resorts? The exemple of Transdev (Philippe CHERVY)

Third Debate

The management of visitor and traffic flows
Can the extremely popular destinations with limited hosting capacities maintain quality without managing visitor flows?

Session chaired by Serge DELEMONTEX

« Road Pricing » : why did Stockholm test a tax on individual motorised mobility? (Lars-Göran MATTSON)

The wonder of Mont-Saint-Michel: is it possible to streamline the management of such a popular tourist site? (Yves LALAUT)

Are transport problems in the large tourist centres detrimental to the quality of the stay? Case of Venice (Federica MONTAGUTI)

Fourth Debate

Transport as an attraction
How can we create tourist products from the existing transport systems?

Session chaired by Rudolf HELFER

Transportation: An element of visitor flow management and the promotion of tourism resources. The cases of the Douro region (Ricardo MAGALHAES)

How can we create tourist products from the existing transport systems: The example of the Swiss Travel System (Hugo FURRER)

The tram-train : perspectives and prospects of developing collective transport systems at the foot of Mont-Blanc (Eric FOURNIER)

Friday, December 8th 2006

Fifth Debate

Soft mobility
A pipe dream or a genuine market niche for tourism?

Session chaired by Pierre LEFEVRE

Cycle routes and greenaways: Tourism objects or supports? (Gilles VESCO)

Soft Mobility: why is it a unique asset for Swiss tourism? The case of "SuisseMobile" and "slowUp" (Lukas STADTHERR)

Soft mobility: a challenge for repositioning tourist destinations? (Pierre MOREAU)

Final Debate

Outlooks and policies
Should private vehicles be phased out in resorts or should additional means of transport be sought?

Session chaired by Sylvain ALLEMAND

The future of tourist transport: Innovations with a view to more sustainable tourist mobility? (Paul PEETERS)

Could car sharing be a form of tourist transport? The overwhelming success of « Mobility Car Sharing Switzerland » (Peter MUHEIM)

Transport in the alpine valleys: what are the scope and limits of local authority intervention? The Valdotain and Italian perspective (Guido CESAL)

Tourism Summits Prize

The award of the 2005 Prize for the Consolidation of ecotourism development in the Vohimana (Madagascar) nature reserve project (Ernest NYCOLLIN)

Presentation of the 2005 prize-winner: Consolidation of ecotourism development in the Vohimana nature reserve project, Madagascar (Nathalie MAISONNEUVE)

Conclusions and lessons learned

Conclusions of the debates (Peter KELLER)

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