Country: Spain – City: Santiago de Compostela – Address:

Mapping the Future of Tourism: Geographic Perspectives from Emerging Scholars

Description:

GeoNight 2026, organized by the Centro de Estudios Turísticos de la USC, will highlight the essential role of geography in understanding and shaping contemporary tourism dynamics. Through a series of seminars, the event will explore spatial analysis, territorial planning, sustainability, and the evolving relationships between places, communities, and visitors.
The event will culminate in the award ceremony of the 1st CETUR Bachelor’s and Master’s Thesis Awards (TFG & TFM), recognizing outstanding research that applies geographic thinking and methodologies to real-world tourism challenges. By foregrounding spatial perspectives and territorial approaches, GeoNight 2026 emphasizes how geographic research contributes to more balanced, resilient, and place-sensitive tourism development.

Main objectives:

Event language: Galician, Spanish

The event will be: Only in presence

Link (for online events):

Reference person: Lucrezia Lopez – Role or function: Director – Reference organization: CETUR, IDEGA, USC

Those who organize are: Academics, Students

Estimated starting time (local time): 10:30:00 AM

Expected duration: around 2 hours

Event program: it will be displayed here as soon as possible

GeoNight code: 2026242