Greetings from the Sustainable Tourism event held in the plains of South Ostrobothnia

I took part in 2^nd PM4SD™ European Summer School Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism event which was held in Seinäjoki. Here are something what I brought you back!

Key facts and offering of the event

• 1^st to the 3^rd July 2014, three days + welcome dinner previous evening 30^th June 2014.
• Around 70 key representatives of the tourism sector: donors, policy makers, industry representatives, project management practitioners, academics and entrepreneurs around Europe and world. Nice people! 🙂
• Lot of shared practices and experiences on how to plan and manage tourism funding with sustainability, and also to improve project management and effectiveness in the tourism sector.
• During the event there were several presentations, case studies, brainstorming, technical workshops, parallel session (call of papers), networking breaks, evening programme e.g. dinners and tango lessons and technical study visit. You can familiarize better to the presentations from this link.
• The event created by FEST (Foundation for European Sustainable Tourism) to promote PM4SD™ as the methodology to apply in tourism projects and to discuss the professionalization of project management in sustainable tourism
• Weather, not so summerlike… but atmosphere among participant very warm, enthusiastic and active.
• Incredible midnight sun with all that light!
• Each year, the Summer School takes place in a different European country. Year 2015 is still open, so interested organisations apply through the call for host organisations!

Before anything it was a great pleasure to meet so many interesting and accomplished people from so many countries and continents who have the same ambition – sustainable tourism.

Hope to see you soon and also work together as well as tango under midnight sun again some day!

Tango under midnight sun. Picture: Hanna Hauvala