Once again MODUL University Vienna will host an important international meeting on tourism research. From March 25 to 28, 2010 the members of the Tourist Research Center (TRC) will gather at this center for international education and research on Kahlenberg for their annual meeting. Founded in the mid 1960s, the Tourist Research Center is a reputable association of Europe’s most important researchers and consultants. The members of this association have a background in economics and other social sciences, and have demonstrated significant involvement in research in tourism.

The final session of the Mentoring class took place on January 26th, 2010 at 04:30 pm. Two groups of students presented on the projects which they worked on with their mentors:

1.) Mr. Oscar del Campo, General Manager, & Mrs. Mag. Viktoria Arnold, Training Manager, Hotel Imperial and Hotel Bristol, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, The Luxury Collection
(main topic of discussion: Branding and implementation of the brand 'The Luxury Collection' in Hotel Imperial and Hotel Bristol)

We are pleased to announce that the 6th ETC & ECM Joint TourMIS Users’ Workshop will take place at MODUL University in Vienna on September 16-17, 2010. The event is directed toward managers, academics as well as consultants and representatives of governments and international organizations dealing with tourism.

The ESADE Alumni Tourism Management Club invited Prof. Karl Wöber, President of MODUL University Vienna, to give a keynote at the annual conference of tourism professionals and former students of ESADE University.

From December 7 to 15, the world's attention will be focused on the United Nation's Climate Change Conference (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen, Denkmark. The global importance of the event has sparked the interest of news media, blog authors, environmental organizations and the corporate sector alike.

On 27 November 2009, Ben Sherman, member of the Oglala Lakota Indian Nation and a national leader in the development of American Indian tourism efforts in the United States gave a guest presentation on “Universal Tourism Values from a Native Perspective” at MODUL University within the guest lecture series Latest Trends and Innovations in Tourism.

In November 2009, the students who participated in the “Health and Wellness Tourism” seminar visited the spa and thermal Hotel Linsberg Asia.

Linsberg Asia, which is located in the southern part of Lower Austria, is a four-star spa resort with Asian philosophy and traditions as its key theme. Students got insights into how the thermal hotel and spa is managed and operates. Mr. Matthias Engel, financial controller at the Linsberg Asia and lecturer at MU Vienna, gave a presentation on key facts and figures of spa and wellness hotels in general and about the Linsberg Asia in particular.

On November 5 and 6 the 17th World Travel Monitor Forum took place in San Giuliano Terme, Italy. The Meeting is a renowned appointment for tourism practitioners, who annually meet in Tuscany to make the point about the past year and gain insights about the next year development of the industry at a worldwide scope.
The red line throughout the two days of conference was the economic crisis and its impact on the tourism industry.

Website: http://trc.aiest.orgThe Tourist Research Center (TRC), in co-operation with MODUL University Vienna, has just launched its new website which aims to foster collaboration among its members in an online environment. TRC and MODUL University Vienna jointly developed and implemented this first online representation to create visibility of the club of tourism researchers and consultants.

Stefan Gössling, Professor at the Department of Service Management at Lund University, Sweden, and research coordinator at the Western Norway Research Institute’s Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism gave a presentation on the 23rd of October 2009 at MODUL University entitled: “The Future of Tourism out of a Climate Mitigation Perspective: the Post-Kyoto Emissions Challenge".

The travel industry must transform itself in order to adapt to the wide spreading impact of climate change. According to Stefan Gössling, it is still early enough for the industry to respond to climate change.