{"id":67,"date":"2018-01-15T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:18:10","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2142 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025.jpeg 2263w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025-300x259.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025-1024x884.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025-768x663.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025-1536x1326.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025-2048x1767.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1565martinfalk2025-600x518.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><strong>Martin Falk, University of South-East Norway (USN), Norway<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Martin Thomas\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Falk<\/strong>\u00a0(ORCID: 0000-0003-0518-6513) is a full professor of management at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), School of Business. He teaches sustainability management, quantitative research methods and research integrity at master&#8217;s and PhD levels. His research interests include tourism, sustainability, climate change and heritage. He holds a PhD in economics and has published over 100 scientific articles in Scopus-indexed journals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title of Speech:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Threats to World Heritage sites on islands and measures to mitigate them<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2227\" src=\"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SJ-face-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SJ-face-2.jpg 1699w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SJ-face-2-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SJ-face-2-989x1024.jpg 989w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SJ-face-2-768x795.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SJ-face-2-1484x1536.jpg 1484w, https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SJ-face-2-600x621.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Sharon M. Jackson<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>The European Sustainability Academy, Greece<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p class=\"ICOTABSTRACT\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Sharon<\/strong> is the founder and Managing Director of the European Sustainability Academy (ESA) Crete. She is also Associate Faculty at Cranfield School of Management, Associate Scholar at University of Cumbria and Visiting Research Fellow at Athens University of Economics and Business. She has held a Non-Executive Director role with Global Sustain, Athens, since 2015. Sharon is a hybrid, sustainability leadership academic and an entrepreneur, with a robust grounding in global business<b>. <\/b>Sharon was awarded her first Executive Board appointment in her 20s and worked for 15 years in senior roles in the global electrical \/ electronic component sector. <b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title of Speech:\u00a0<\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Scaling management and leadership training and education for future tourism<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Falk, University of South-East Norway (USN), Norway Martin Thomas\u00a0\u00a0Falk\u00a0(ORCID: 0000-0003-0518-6513) is a full professor of management at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), School of Business. He teaches sustainability management, quantitative research methods and research integrity at master&#8217;s and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iatour.org\/icot2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}