Prof.Dr.Dr.hc Alexis Papathanassis
To have an impact, tourism and cruise research needs to be accessible and attractive to a wider audience! Yet, my occasional quote in the press or brief radio soundbite only scratches the surface! So… Instead of reading my research and attending my speeches, you can simply hear it as an AI-generated podcast! You can explore […]
Is Cruise Tourism the Future of Coastal Economies? Cruising to Growth: Blue Tourism and Sustainability Tourism, including cruise tourism, is an integral component of many island and coastal nations’ plans to grow their blue economy. The industry supports millions of workers directly and indirectly and is a crucial source of income for many otherwise underdeveloped […]
The lecture is live on the 11th of Feb 2023 (at 11:00) in the Haus der Wissenschaft (Bremen) and is also made available in YouTube. The lecture is held in German. Summary: The global growth of the tourism sector over the last decades has highlighted its potential as a growth strategy for developing and emerging […]
The Wrap-Up session of the UN Ocean Decade Event – Productive Ocean Lab is available online (click here). This is a milestone event, bringing scientists and experts from all over the world to discuss and provide input for the roadmap towards a sustainable and productive ocean.
The core event of the UN Ocean Decade – Productive Ocean Lab is available online. This event brings together experts from different fiields, aiming at creating a sustainable Blue Economy. Maritime and Coastal Tourism represent more than half of the Blue Economy’s gross value-added and employment. Thanks to all the discussion partners, moderators and organisers […]
Check out our Podcast (in German): Der Podcast zur Ozeandekade – Folge 6 In episode 6 of the BMBF podcast on the Ocean Decade, science journalist Marie Heidenreich from Forschungszentrum Jülich talks with Prof. Dr. Reinhold Hanel, head of the Thünen Institute for Fishery Ecology, and Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexis Papathanassis, Rector of Bremerhaven University […]
The UN’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the ‘Ocean Decade’, from 2021 to 2030 provides a common framework to ensure that ocean science can fully support countries to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Within this framework, tourism in general and coastal / maritime tourism in partcular, plays a central role. Within […]
The cruise sector has historically emerged by the crisis in passenger shipping sector during the 70s-80s, forcing the re-invention of passenger shipping to the modern cruise holiday. The cruise sector has been (and is) amongst the early adopters of new technologies, ultimately aiming to ‘sail away’ from price-competitive markets and unattractive business environments (Red Ocean). […]
The overtourism phenomenon (or better collection of phenomena) is not new. The externalities of tourism have been extensively researched since the 70s!!! Nevertheless – and sadly enough – it has required a media-hype and a catchy term for those to be perceived as attention-worthy by the tourism and cruise sector. Perhaps the tourism and cruise […]
Dear all, It is a long time since we all got together. AND IT IS ABOUT TIME WE DO AGAIN! The date for the 6th International Cruise Conference is set. It will take place between the 13-15th of June 2019 in Bremerhaven (Germany). Download the call for papers here: http://www.cruiseresearchsociety.com/UserFiles/File/ICC6/ICC6CfP.pdf More infos (e.g. conference programme, pricing, travel […]
