Tenth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies
- Hospitality the Caribbean Way: Global Lessons from Local Experiences
- 18-20 June 2025
- University of Curaçao, Willemstad, Curaçao + Online
Full professor at the Department of Marketing and Market Research, University of Granada, Spain
Full Professor of Marketing and Market Research, University of Granada, Spain
Senior Lecturer; Program Director, Human Resource Management, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Curaçao,
The Tenth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies featured plenary sessions and Plenary Panel with some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor Tourism Economics and Management, University of Central Florida Rosen College of Hospitality Management, USA
"Small Islands, Big Questions: Tourism, Identity, and the Meaning of Belonging"
Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, Barbados
"Culture, Connection, Creativity, Community and Care - Caribbean Hospitality Lessons for Global Success"
Associate Program Director and Research Coordinator, University of Curaçao, Curaçao
Managing Director and Senior Management Team Member at CTB, Curaçao
Managing Director at Tourism Analytics, Aruba
Executive Director, International Institute of Tourism Studies, The George Washington University, USA
Archaeologist at National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management, Curacao
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
University of Curaçao Business School
Business Intelligence Manager
Policy advisor at the Ministry of Economic Development of Curaçao.
Sector Director Economic Development and Innovation at the Ministry of Economic Development of Curaçao
Curaçao Tourist Board
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2025 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Penn State Abington, USA
(In-Person)
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
(In-Person)
Penn State Abington, USA
(In-Person)
Penn State Abington, USA
(In-Person)
Penn State Abington, USA
(In-Person)
Penn State Abington, USA
(In-Person)
University of Illinois Chicago, USA
(In-Person)
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
(In-Person)
North-West University, South Africa
(Online Only)
Gujarat, India
Willemstad, Curaçao
