programme
thursday, december 1st
09:00 - 09:15

CONVENTION OPENING

Yaiza Castilla
Regional Minister for Tourism, Industry and Commerce. Canary Islands Government
Santiago de Armas
President Excelcan
Michele Cossa
President of the Special Commission for Insularity of the Regional Parliament of Sardinia

09:00 - 09:15
09:15 - 10:45

EUROPEAN GREEN ISLANDS IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Speakers: 
Pablo Lorenzo
Operations, Processes and Development Manager. Lopesan Hotels and Resorts
José Juan Lorenzo
Promotur General Manager
Ireni Mikelis
Project Manager Insuleur
Moderator:
José Manuel Rodríguez Macías
Manager ATOS Consulting CANARIAS SAU

09:15 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30

PRESENTATION ON EUROPEAN ISLANDS AND DIGITAL TRANSITION:

Speakers:
Francisco Morcillo Balboa
CEO MB3-Gestión
Enrique Martínez
Presidente de SEGITTUR (ONLINE)
Aurelio Domingo
Experto en Transformación Digital.
Valentín Pagador
Desarrollo de Negocio-Turism0. Telefónica
Moderator:
Agustín Cárdenas
 Director of Business Transformation of Companies at Telefónica

11:00 - 12:30
12:30 - 14:00

PRESENTATION ON DATA AND PEOPLE:

Speakers:
Ramón Sánchez Álvarez
Head of Strategic Projects, Travel Audience & Amadeus for Destinations
Juan José Cardona
The Wise Dreams
María Guardiet de Vera
Directora de Proyectos de Inteligencia Turística, Planificación y Conectividad. Promotur – Turismo de Canarias

12:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 16:00

BREAK

14:00 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:30

ROUND TABLE: MONITORING THE EUROPEAN TRANSITION PATHWAY FOR TOURISM.
COORDINATED BY INSULEUR

Speakers:
Claudia Guzzon
Executive Secretary of the Islands Commission of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR)
Gianni Chianetta
Founder and Director of Greening the Islands (GTI)
Giovanni Ruggieri
President of the Observatory on Turism in the European Islands (OTIE)
Eleftherios Kehagioglou
President of the Hellenic Small Islands Network, European climate ambassador in Greece, Vice-Chair of the European Small Islands Federation, Municipal Councillor for Hydra
María Frontera
President of the Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca (FEHM)
Nick Tsipiras
Member of INSULEUR.

Moderator:
Athanasios Ioannidis
Member of EESS

16:00 - 17:30
FRIday, december 2ND
09:10 - 09:15

SESSION OPENING

09:10 - 09:15
09:15 - 09:45

THE FUTURE OF LEISURE TRAVEL

Speaker:
Sebastian Ebel
CEO of TUI

09:15 - 09:45
09:45 - 10:15

THE IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM ISLANDS IN THE EUROPEAN TOURISM CONTEXT

Speaker:
Marie-Helene Pradines
Head of the Tourism Unit at the European Commission.
(Online Presentation)

09:45 - 10:15
10:15 - 11:15

ROUND TABLE: THE CHALLENGES OF AIR CONNECTIVITY.

Speakers:
Carlos Gómez 
CEO of Iberia Express.
Jesús Nuño de la Rosa
CEO of Air Europa
Thomas Fowler
Ryanair Global Sustainability Manager
Rodolfo Nuñez,
President of Binter
Javier Gándara
President of the Airlines Association (ALA) and general director of EasyJet for southern Europe (Online)

Moderator: José Juan Lorenzo
Managing Director of Promotur

10:15 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:45

COFEE BREAK

11:15 - 11:45
11:45 - 13:45

ROUND TABLE WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF EUROPEAN TOURISM ISLANDS: GOZO, CORSICA, CRETE, AZORES, FRENCH GUIANA, MEDEIRA, THE BALEARIC ISLANDS AND THE CANARY ISLANDS.

Speakers:
Kyriakos Kotsoglou
Vice-Governor for Tourism of Crete
Jean Luk Le West
Président du Comité du Tourisme de la Guyane
Rosa María Carreiro Machado Costa
Regional Director for Tourism of the Regional Government of the Azores
Angèle Bastiani
Présidente de l’Agence du Tourisme de la Corse
Ronald Anthony Sultana
Director, Tourism and Economic Development, Minister for Gozo
Clara Noronha
Chef de la Division de l’Information, des Événements et des Projets Touristiques de Madeira
Dirk Glaesser
Director of Sustainable Development, UNWTO
Iago Negueruela i Vázquez
Regional Minister for Economic Model, Tourism and Employment of the Government of the Balearic Islands
Yaiza Castilla Herrera
Regional Minister for Tourism, Industry and Commerce of Government of the Canary Islands
Michele Cossa
President of the Special Commission for Insularity of the Regional Parliament of Sardinia

Moderator: Cristina Núñez
Managing Director NECSTouR Permanent Secretariat.

11:45 - 13:45
13:45

PRESENTATION OF THE DECLARATION OF THE CANARY ISLANDS

Ángel Víctor Torres
President. Canary Islands Government.

13:45
14:00

CLOSING OF THE EUROPEAN TOURISM ISLANDS CONVENTION

Ángel Víctor Torres
President. Canary Islands Government.

14:00