The conference on managing tourism across continents, September 2-4, 2020 (MTCON’20)

Abstract

The first Conference on Managing Tourism Across Continents (MTCON’20), which was organized by the Association of Turkish Tourism Academics (TUADER), was held virtually between September 2 and 4, 2020. The conference, which had been planned to be arranged face-to-face in Antalya/Turkey in April 2020, had to be postponed to September 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and was held online. The slogan of the conference has been determined as “Tourism for a Better World”. MTCON’20 was held with the contribution of many people. Conference chairs were Prof. Dr. Muzaffer UYSAL and Prof. Dr. Orhan ICOZ; conference coordinator was Prof. Dr. Ebru GUNLU KUCULALTAN; conference vice-coordinator and operations coordinator was Asst. Prof. Dr. Alaattin BASODA. Furthermore; an organizing board of 24, an advisory board of 23, a scientific board of 98, and an organization team of 56 took part in the conference. Besides, the technical infrastructure sponsor was Hotel Linkage, and thanks to the technological support they provided, the conference was held smoothly in the virtual environment.