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Overview

The « Active Territories: Sport and Leisure » (TA:SL) Conference is a multidisciplinary event organised by Eklore-ed School of Management on its Pau campus. It brings together professionals and specialist researchers to discuss current and future developments in the sport and leisure industry in its territorial environment.

The conference will look at how the sport and leisure sector has a lasting impact on the economic, managerial and communication development of local territories. It will highlight the interactions between private sector players and public projects, such as the organization of mega-events like the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

These collaborations also generate challenges and opportunities in terms of economic, sustainable and societal development. We encourage participants to explore these issues related to the industry and its stakeholders in a context of territorial integration and ever-changing international competition. 

We cordially invite academics, researchers, and industry professionals to submit full papers or a detailed abstract (Call for papers) for conference presentation.  Selected papers will be considered for publication in the associated journals : Journal of Sports Economics, Tourism Review, Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights and Gestion 2000.

 

General Program

13 May:

  • 9.30am-10am: welcome for participants with refreshments
  • 10am-6pm: presentation sessions with breaks and lunch
  • 6pm: event bringing together sports professionals and academics for a round table discussion
  • 7.30pm: cocktail reception

14 May:

  • 10am-5pm: presentation sessions with breaks and lunch
  • 5.30pm: walking tour of the city centre (château, funicular railway, boulevard des Pyrénées)
  • 7.30pm: gala dinner

 

A meet the editor session will also be organized for PhD students and researchers to present their contributions with extended time (including feedback) to journal editors

 

 

 

Keynote Speakers

 Dr Ksenia Kirillova

Ksenia Kirillova is associate professor of tourism & hospitality marketing and vice-head for research at Institut Lyfe (ex-Institut Paul Bocuse) in France. She received the PhD degree from Purdue University (USA) and was previously based at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Ksenia is the author of 50 publications in leading tourism and hospitality academic journals in the domains of consumer experiences and destination marketing, with the special focus on transformative changes. Ksenia serves as a co-editor in chief at Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights and as an associate editor at Annals of Tourism Research.

Prior to the academic career, Ksenia spent nine years working in high-end restaurant sector as well as in  a destination marketing organization in the US. In her free time, Ksenia ponders the questions of life, death, human (dis)connectedness, freedom, and the meaning of it all.

 

Dr Jean-Michel Sahut

Jean Michel SAHUT (PhD and HdR in Management Sciences) is a professor at IDRAC Business School, France. He teaches entrepreneurial finance, corporate finance, financial markets, Fintech, research methodology and business games. Previously, he was professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (Ch), professor and director of the RESFIN laboratory at the Institut Mines-Telecom.

He has been the principal organiser of 31 international conferences. He has published over 150 scientific articles on finance, fintech, cryptocurrencies, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, innovation and sustainable tourism in international peer-reviewed journals, as well as five books. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal Management & Prospective: Gestion 2000 (Scopus, Fnege rank 3).

Jean Michel Sahut's work has had more than 200 000 reads.

 

Prof. Michel Desbordes

Michel Desbordes is Professor of Sports Marketing at the University of Lausanne. He is also a consultant to a number of sports organisations and international events. An alumnus of ENS-Cachan, he holds a doctorate in management science and was a professor at Paris Saclay between 2007 and 2024.

The author of 34 books and numerous articles, he was editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship and, since 2023, has also been guest editor-in-chief of Sustainability magazine.

 

Pr Dimitrios Buhalis

Dimitrios Buhalis is a Strategic Management and Marketing expert with specialisation in Information Communication Technology applications in the Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Leisure industries.

He is the Director of the eTourism Lab and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research, at Bournemouth University Business School in England. He is the Editor in Chief of the most established SSCI Journal in Tourism: Tourism Review, now in its 78th volume. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing https://eep.manuscriptmanager.net/. Professor Buhalis is a world expert in Strategy, Marketing, Technology, Tourism and Hospitality. His research is referenced widely, and Professor Dimitrios Buhalis was recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher 2020, 2021 and 2022 by Clarivate™. He is the 2nd most cited for tourism, 1st most cited for hospitality, 10th on strategy, and 23rd  in Marketing on Google Scholar with more than 76000 citations and h-index 117.

 

Dr John Fry

John Fry is Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics having previously worked at a number of different business schools and mathematics departments in the UK. John has a PhD in Mathematical Finance (Econophysics) from the University of Sheffield, an MSc in Statistics from the University of Sheffield and a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. John has research interests spanning econophysics, mathematical finance, operations research, statistics and sports modelling.

Some of John's past work modelling Bitcoin markets has been very highly cited. John jointly won the Tom Fetherstone prize in 2019 for the best paper published in International Review of Financial Analysis in 2016.

 

Partners

   

Partner Journals

Gestion 2000

 

Special Issue

Guest editor : Dr Jean-Michel Sahut.

 

Annals of Tourism Research

Empirical Insights

Selected articles will be recommended for publication

Guest editor : Dr Ksenia Kirillova.

 

Journal of Sports Economics

Selected articles will be recommended for publication

Guest editor : Pr. Dennis Coates.

 

Tourism Review

Selected articles will be recommended for publication

Guest editor : Pr. Dimitrios Buhalis.

 

Revue Française de Gestion

Call for papers:

Le management du sport. État des lieux et perspectives

(https://www.jle.com/library/contenu/RFG/Appel-SportDEFJUILLET2024-LG.pdf).

Important dates

Online submissions opens: 8 January 2024

Registration opens: July 2024

Closing date for submissions: 15 January 2025

Acceptance decisions: 1 March 2025

Registration deadline: 15 April 2025

Conference dates: 13-14 May 2025

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