SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29,2008
08.30 - 10.00	Registration
10.00 - 11.00	Opening Session Opening Remarks Krzysztof Przecławski, President Warsaw College of Tourism and Hospitality Management Katarzyna Sobierajska, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Sport and Tourism Elżbieta Wąsowicz-Zaborek, Vicepresident, Polish Tourist Organization Opening Address: Jafar Jafari, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00	Session 1.Challenges for the Regional Tourism Industry. Chairperson: Jafar Jafari Keynote Speakers: Nevenka Čavlek, University of Zagreb, Croatia Anna Somorowska, Senior Tourism Consultant, Warsaw, Poland Meltem Caber, Tahir Albayrak Katarzyna Dąbrowska-Zielińska Magdalena Dróżdż Ram Herstein, Yoram Mitki Ewa Wszendybył-Skulska
13.00 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 16.00	Session 1 contd.
16.00 - 16.20	Coffee Break
16.20 - 17.30	Session 1 contd.
19:30	Dinner at "Sarmacja" restaurant

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30,2008
08.30 - 11.00	Sightseeing of Warsaw Departure from Hotel Ibis, Muranowska 2 The tour will end at the conference venue
11.00 - 13.00	Session 2. Branding Regional Tourism Products in a Competitive World. Chairperson: Nevenka Čavlek Keynote Speaker: Julio Aramberri, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Józef Grochowicz, Ewa Czarniecka-Skubina, Dorota Nowak Valeria Klitsounova Janusz Majewski
13.00 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 16.30	Session 3. Positioning Eastern Europe in a Global Market. Chairperson: Julio Aramberri Keynote Speaker: Yanjun Xie, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China Joanna Alder Gila Oren, Avital Biran, Yaniv Paria Gabriel Kuliffay Bartłomiej Pacuda
16.30 - 17.00	Coffee Break
17.00 - 17.40	Closing Remarks

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The College of Tourism and Hospitality Management is situated outside the center of the city and public transportation is slightly complicated (from the Palace of Culture area you take the tram no.7 and at the East Railway Station (Warszawa Wschodnia) you change into bus 115 and 123, get off at the second stop and walk 5 minutes north along Chodakowska Street). Some participants of the Conference will stay at the Ibis Hotel at Muranowska 2, near the Old Town. There will be our school bus taking the participants to the Conference venue on Saturday, November 29th at 8.30 am. The bus will bring you back to the same place (hotel Ibis) after the last session.
The dinner on Saturday night is arranged in the restaurant very close to Ibis Hotel so all participants are invited to meet at the hotel at 7.20 pm.
On Sunday our sightseeing tour will start at Ibis at 8.30 am and after the tour the bus will bring you to the Conference venue. After the final session the bus transportation back to Ibis Hotel will be provided.
We invite all participants to take advantage of our "transportation system" as public transportation, especially city buses, are not very frequent. Otherwise we suggest to use taxis.