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From May 5 to 7, the Manuel Becerra headquarters of the Rey Juan Carlos University hosted after two years the first face-to-face meeting of the International Tourism Masters Network (ITMN). Different representatives of universities in which high-level postgraduate tourism studies are taught participated in it.
The main objective of this network is to foster international collaboration and optimize the benefits of exchange (information, knowledge, ideas and people) between students, graduates, staff and tourism professionals.
The meeting featured discussion sessions on aspects related to training, research and international networking between the different members that make up ITMN.
Professors Nuria Morere and Laura Fuentes, directors of the Master's in International Tourism Management at the URJC, have been in charge of organizing the meeting with the support of the School of Official Master's Degrees and the Postgraduate Vice-Rectorate of the URJC.
Professor Laura Fuentes describes the meeting as "positive", since it has served to re-elect the members of the network's Board of Directors. "The meeting was an opportunity to engage in discussion sessions on new lines of research or educational innovation," she adds.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Milano Biccoca University (Italy), the University of Algarve (Portugal), IAE Université Savoie Mont Blanc Chambéry (France), FH Wien of WKW Vienna (Austria), Haaga-helia Helsinki (Finland), University of Guelph (Canada), London Metropolitan University London (United Kingdom), in addition to other honorary members and representatives of the tourism industry.