On 20 November, the 2017 edition of the NRIT Trend Report Tourism, Recreation and Leisure was presented in The Hague, The Netherlands. The Trend Report presents all trends and developments in these sectors, and it is seen as the standard year book in the leisure sector in The Netherlands.
In this year’s Trend Report, there is also a place for the Smart City Hospitality (SCITHOS) research project. SCITHOS is a three-year European funded research project in which researchers from three academies (AHFM, ADE, and AfT) work together with researchers from Norway and Austria, plus a technological partner in Spain. The aim of SCITHOS is to aid policy makers to get to grips with sustainability in the development of urban tourism.
Hans Westerbeek presented the most important ideas and preliminary results of the SCITHOS project. The audience consisted of policy makers, destination marketers, provinces and other tourism and leisure professionals.