Colleagues from our Department of Tourism participated in THE INC 2026 – Tourism, Hospitality & Events INternational Conference, which was held in Portugal between 17–19 June 2026.
THE INC is the official conference of ATHENA (Association of Tourism, Hospitality and Events Networks in Academia), an international academic organisation of which our Faculty’s Research Centre for Business and Management Sciences is also a member.
Our colleagues represented our university with several current research topics in tourism and hospitality. Their presentations focused, among other topics, on personalised hotel experiences, the measurement of sustainability awareness, the development of early career graduates’ professional paths, and the role of the Living Lab method in community involvement.
Research topics presented by our colleagues:
- Kitti Hiezl, Petra Gyurácz-Németh, Gábor Michalkó: From Experiencescape to Place Attachment: The Mediating Role of Personalised Hotels
- Petra Gyurácz-Németh, Ágnes Raffay-Danyi & Nikolett Bosnyák-Simon: Conceptualizing and Measuring Sustainability Awareness: A Multidimensional Indicator-Based Approach
- Katalin Formadi, Petra Gyurácz-Németh, László Gadár & Eszter Bogdány: Personalizing the professional path: a persona-based longitudinal analysis of early career graduates
- Zsófia Márta Papp, Ágnes Raffay-Danyi, Katalin Lőrincz: The Living Lab Method to Help Community Involvement
More information about the research topics is available in the conference proceedings, which can be accessed here.
It is a great honour that the publication by Dr. Kitti Hiezl, Dr. Petra Gyurácz-Németh and Dr. Gábor Michalkó titled “From Experiencescape to Place Attachment: The Mediating Role of Personalised Hotels” was ranked among the top three awarded papers in the Hospitality Paper Awards category. Further information is available here.
We warmly congratulate our colleagues and wish them continued success.
