II Intelligent Coast International Symposium
TOURISM XXL
REDEFINITION OF THE TOURIST-URBAN MODEL OF THE COASTAL METROPOLIS
November,
2008 in Barcelona
Directed by :
Manuel Gausa (Intelligent Coast, UPC), Silvia Banchini (Intelligent Coast,
UPC), Luis Falcón (Intelligent Coast, UPC)
The
II Intelligent Coast International Symposium aims at fomenting the I+D+I
and creating, in this second edition, a place of meeting, discussion and
opinion about the development strategies of the coastal urban concentrations
of the XXI century. This year the II Intelligent Coast International Symposium
will address the limits, strategies and indicators that define the competitiveness
of urban concentrations on the basis of its urban-productive, strategic-infrastructure
and managerial-tourist models. It has the objective of gathering intellectuals,
businessmen and politicians to debate and take a stand about three main
issues:
1- Which are the geographical, population related, economical and environmental
boundaries and which the influential area of a coastal metropolitan region
whose economy is dominated by tertiary and quaternary sectors (TIC)?
2- What role do the physical and digital infrastructure networks play
nowadays in the development and planning of a coastal tourist metropolis?
3- Which are the most appropriate indicators to measure the level of competitiveness
of a coastal tourist metropolis?
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