ABOUT IRFGT
The International Research Forum on Guided Tours had its roots in Sweden back in 2009 and every two years it has been bringing together different intervenients within the scope of Guided Tours.
From academic to practical perspectives, each Forum has been rewarding its participants in intercultural, intellectual and professional terms! Bearing in mind that common aim, after the meetings in Sweden, the UK and the Netherlands, in 2015 the IRFGT will head southwest to Portugal. In Estoril, delegates will be welcomed around springtime, from the 18th to the 21st March.
About IRFGT
Miguel Brito & Carla Braga - Coordinators/ESHTE
António Gonçalves - ESHTE
Cândida Cadavez - ESHTE
Cristina Carvalho - ESHTE
Dineke Koerts - NHTV, Breda, The Netherlands
Gabriela Carvalho - ESHTE
Mikael Jonasson – Halmstad University, Sweden
Phil Smith – University of Plymouth, UK
Rosângela Baptista (for the PR and Events Office)
Vincent Zammit – Institute of Tourism Studies, Malta
Organising Committee – IRFGT 2015
Created in 1991 the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies (Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril - ESHTE) is a public higher education institution under the aegis of the Ministry of Education.
ESHTE offers graduate degrees in Tourism (Tourism Information, Tourism Management, and Leisure Management and Tourism Entertainment), Hospitality (Hotel Management), and Cookery and Food Production, besides Masters and PhD programmes in collaboration with national and international counterparts.
This higher institute also maintains cooperation protocols with fellow institutions from Europe (Erasmus programme), the United States, Brazil, Macao, African and East Timorese partners.
ESHTE has been training Tour Guides since 1992. Therefore, it seemed proper to host the 4th edition of the IRFGT, not only as a means to invite other European professionals and researchers to the meeting’s debates, but also to form new alliances with more world-wide counterparts.
About ESHTE & IRFGT
WELCOME TO THE 4th INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FORUM ON GUIDED TOURS
Spring 2015 Estoril, Portugal
