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.

MODUL Research conducted a study investigating the need for a bus stop for bus-group tourists in Vienna’s city center at Stephansplatz. Plans to restructure the space in front of and around St. Stephen’s Cathedral exist. These plans include the removal of the bus stop for bus-group tourists at Stephansplatz. Instead a new bus stop a few hundred metres away, e.g. at Hoher Markt, will be offered.

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.

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.

The Young Hotelier Award is organized by the General Managers Council (GMC) representing the five star luxury hotels at Vienna. The award is aiming at fostering young hoteliers by training them and awarding the most talented one.

MODUL University Vienna is supporting the Young Hotelier Award by holding two workshops

Ms. Wei Shi, student of the MU Vienna MBA in Tourism Management program, was selected as the winner of the Scholarship of Hope 2009. She has been selected at the discretion by the Committee for the Scholarship of Hope which acts as a reviewing body of students' project proposals.

The 5th ECM & ETC Joint TourMIS Users’ Workshop took place at MODUL University, in Vienna, September 3-4, 2009. The 81 delegates attending the event represented city and national tourist organizations, universities and companies from the hospitality and tourism industry from 25 different countries in Europe.

The Capacity Building Programme in Tourism Statistics has been initiated by the World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) Department of Statistics and Economic Measurement of Tourism to promote the integration of tourism statistics within the sphere of United Nation’s members. The aim of the programme is to foster the worldwide comparability of tourism statistics and the macroeconomic analysis of tourism activities. The further goal is to uphold the relevance of internationally agreed standards and, in particular, those of the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) framework for the measurement of tourism related activities.

During the 40th conference of the Travel and Tourism Research Association (ttra) in Honolulu, Hawaii, Prof. Karl Wöber was presented with the Charles R. Goeldner Article of Excellence Award.

This prestigious award, named for the long-time editor of the Journal of Travel Research, recognizes annually the most significant work in the journal. This year, the jury acknowledges the contribution by Prof. Wöber and his co-authors Zheng Xiang (University of North Texas) and Daniel R. Fesenmaier (Temple University) on the Representation of the Online Tourism Domain in Search Engine.