11th International Conference “New Frontiers in Economics and Tourism – FET2024

Keynote Speakers

Nawazish Mirza

Dr Nawazish Mirza is Professor of Finance at Excelia Business School, La Rochelle. He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Risk Finance, Review of Accounting and Finance, Editor of Economic Research, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment. Dr. Mirza obtained his Doctorate in Finance, from the University of Paris Dauphine in 2010. He has more than 20 years of experience in consulting and teaching in Australia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and France. His focus of teaching and research are Blue Economies, Sustainable Finance, Financial Intermediation, and Financial Risk Management. Dr. Mirza's recent research has been published in Energy Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Review of Economics and Finance, Annals of Operations Research, and Journal of Environmental Management, among others. Before his academic stint, Dr. Mirza worked in Investment Banking, Asset Management, and Credit Ratings. He regularly contributes his opinions to popular media like Bloomberg, CNBC, China Daily, etc.

Marina Tkalec

Marina Tkalec is a senior research associate at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, a member of the Macroeconomics and international economics department. She received her doctorate in economics in 2013 at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana on monetary economics in European transition countries. Her research interests are macroeconomics, monetary economics, tourism, macro finance, international economy, and topics in growth and development. During her career, she conducted training and research at the London School of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and UNU MERIT Maastricht. She participated in numerous trainings as well as scientific and professional conferences. She has published over 90 scientific and professional works and participated in scientific and research projects for foreign and domestic clients. From 2015 to 2019, she was editor-in-chief of Croatian Economic Outlook, a periodical that provided analyses of recent macroeconomic trends and short-term forecasts for the Croatian economy. She participated in many round tables, media appearances, discussions, talks, and other professional gatherings in the country and abroad. She occasionally teaches at study programs as an external associate on courses. In 2020 she was appointed member of the Economic Council of the President of the Republic of Croatia. Since January 2023, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb.

Maria Gravari-Barbas

Maria Gravari-Barbas has a degree in Architecture and Urban Design (University of Athens, 1985), and a PhD in Geography and Planning (Paris 4 – Sorbonne University, 1991). She was Fellow at the Urban Program of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA (1990). She is the Director of the Institute for Research and High Studies on Tourism (Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes Supérieures du TourismeTourisme, IREST) of Paris 1 – Sorbonne University and of the IREST, a multidisciplinary research team dedicated to tourism studies, with main focus cultural heritage, development, and urban-tourism evolutions.

Maria is the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair “Tourism, Culture, Development” of Paris 1 – Sorbonne University and of the UNITWIN network of the same name, comprising more than 25 top level universities all around the World. She is invited professor in different Universities in Europe, the States and Latin America. She is the author of several books and papers related to Tourism, Culture and Heritage.

Conference Topics

Include but are not limited to:

• Strengthening National and Regional Resilience
• AI and Economic Growth
• Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy
• Propelling Sustainability Through Water and Blue Economies
• Trade Policy and Global Value Chains (in the Post-COVID-19 Period)
• Culture and Sustainable Well-Being
• Quantitative Methods for Cultural Economics and Creative Industries
• Green and Digital Transition
• Financial Resilience
• Fintech and Artifical Intelligence
• Central Bank Digital Currencies
• How Data and AI Can Drive Digital Transformation?
• Digital Culture as the Driving Force of Digital Transformation
• Blockchain and the Sharing Economy
• Measuring the Digital Transformation

• New Technologies, Business Environment and Legal Framework
• Challenges of Making Data-Driven Business Decisions
• Optimization Techniques in Resource Allocation
• Sustainability and Socially Responsible Accounting
• Innovations in Accounting for SMEs
• Accounting Analysis and Forecasting
• International Accounting Harmonization
• Digital Accounting
• Public Sector Organizations’ Project Management Maturity
• Quality and Competitiveness
• Crises in Tourism
• Regenerative Tourism
• SMART Tourism and Hotel Industry Development Concepts
• Mathematical Modeling in Tourism and Economics
• Big Data Analytics in Tourism

• Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Urban Development
• Tourism and Leisure
• Statistical Analysis of Economics and Tourism Impacts
• Predictive Analytics in Economics and Tourism
• Data Security and Privacy in Tourism
• Information Systems for Sustainable Tourism
• Artificial Intelligence in Tourism and Economics
• Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Destinations
• Humanised Workplace
• The Nature of Organisations
• HRM Trends: Skills and Talents
• Leadership in Public Administration Complex Contexts
• Leadership and Management Beyond Borders
• New Trends in Marketing
•  Holistic Marketing
• Media and Language

* Scholars in other disciplines offering new perspectives on the conference theme are also encouraged to participate.

Publishing opportunities

Abstracts will be published in the Conference Digital Book of Abstracts.

Only papers that will be presented at the Conference will be published.  Conference Proceedings will be submitted to Clarivate Analytics for revision and indexing in the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI).

Full papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings Digital Book and up to 5 selected papers will be published free of charge in each of the following journals:

Economic Research – Ekonomska istraživanja

Currently indexed in Scopus, GEOBASE, CABI, RePec, EBSCO (Business Source Complete, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Business Source Ultimate, TOC Premier), CNIK, OCLC, and Naver.

RIC – Review of Innovation and Competitiveness

Currently indexed in Hrčak, ERIH PLUS, Index Copernicus International, Scientific Indexing Service (SIS) database, International Scientific Indexing (ISI), DOAJ, Scilit, Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), Google Scholar, WorldCat, Crossref, Open Science Directory, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), EBSCO Host.

Managing Global Transitions

Currently indexed in International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, EconLit, Directory of Open Access Journals, Erih Plus, IBZ Online, EconPapers, EBSCO and ProQuest.

Journal of Risk Finance

The Journal of Risk Finance has a Clarivate impact factor of 3.5 (2022) and is ranked as ABS 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools' (CABS) Academic Journal Guide 2021. It is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TOC Premier (EBSCO), ANVUR, Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), Australian Research Council (ERA Journal List), BFI (Denmark), ESSEC Rankings of Journals 2016, HCERES (France), VHB-JOURQUAL Category 3 (Germany), NSD (Norway), Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN), The Publication Forum (Finland).

Review of Accounting and Finance

The Review of Accounting and Finance has a Clarivate impact factor of 2.4 and is ranked as ABS 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools' (CABS) Academic Journal Guide 2021. It is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), HCERES (France), Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), Accounting & Tax Periodicals (ProQuest), The British Library, Business Source Alumni Edition/ Business Source Complete/ Business Source Corporate Plus/ Business Source Elite/ Business Source International/ Business Source Premier (EBSCO), Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Accounting and Economics and Finance, INSPEC, OCLC - Electronic Collections Online, Professional ABI/INFORM Complete/ Professional ProQuest Central/ ProQuest Central/ ProQuest Curriculum Essentials/ ProQuest Pharma Collection, ReadCube Discover, RePEc, Scopus.

Important dates

•     Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2024
•     Abstract acceptance notification: 15 February 2024
•     Final paper submission: 30 May 2024
•     Final paper acceptance notification: 1 September 2024
•     Conference dates: 10 - 11 October 2024

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