Webinar: Sustainability - Visitor Pressure and Social Impact of Your Facility
15:00-16:00 CET
This IAAPA EMEA webinar focuses on the topic of sustainability and specifically looks at it from the perspective of the visitor and what kind of social impact your facility might have. Join us to hear from Andreas Andersen, CEO and President of Liseberg and Albert Postma and learn about:
- Growing importance of tourism - community relations
- Social sustainability - balancing social impacts
- Overtourism and its impact and community relations
- How to use scenario planning to become more socially sustainable?
- Scenario planning process and case study
Speakers
Andreas Andersen
Andreas Veilstrup Andersen is the CEO and President of the Liseberg Group, Sweden – operating one of Scandinavia’s most visited amusement parks. Andreas has a legal and financial background and has been working in the amusement park industry since 2000. First in several capacities at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, later as Vice President of European operations at IAAPA EMEA in Brussels, Belgium. Andreas was the 2018 Chairman of IAAPA and is the current Chair of the IAAPA Global Sustainability Committee.
Albert Postma
Since the early 1990s involved in leisure and tourism education at BA and MA level and projects commissioned by the industry. In 2019 the European Tourism Futures Institute was established as an initiative from a number of industry partners, at which I was appointed as professor of scenario planning. Completed my PhD in 2013 on visitor pressure, which resulted in international studies on overtourism with UNWTO and leading academic articles on this topic.
