
29/07/2025
🌍 Main Theme of EATSA 2026 Uncovered!
📣 We are excited to announce the theme of the 12th Annual EATSA Conference, which will take place in Poland next year:
🎯 BRIDGES OVER BORDERS: TOURISM IN AN ACCELERATING WORLD
🔍 Subthemes include:
– Binaries rooted in tourism: Europe/Asia, West/East, Guest/Host, Day/Night, Local/Stranger, Work/Leisure, Local/Global, Past/Future
– Tourism in the perspective of time: chronogeographies, mobilities, liminalities
– Geopolitics and global tourism
– Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: identities, attachments, stereotypes
– Speculative tourism / Future tourism
– The future of tourism education
– AI-driven tourism
– Climate change in tourism
– Accelerating consumer trends in tourism
– Night and tourism
– Work and/in tourism
– Entrepreneurship in tourism
– Family tourism and family in tourism
The conference will be hosted jointly by:
🏛 Poznan University of Economics And Business (PUEB)
🏛 Jagiellonian University (UJ)
🗓 Save the dates: 29 June – 3 July 2026
📍 Two extraordinary host cities: Poznań & Kraków
🤝 Institutional Partners:
Polska Organizacja Turystyczna
Poland Convention Bureau
Krakow Convention Bureau
Poznańska Lokalna Organizacja Turystyczna
Poznan Convention Bureau
We look forward to welcoming you to Poland in 2026 for a conference that will explore tourism in all its complexity and potential—across borders, binaries, and bold ideas.
ℹ️ Find more info about the conference: https://eatsaresearchers.org/eatsa-2026-poland/