Welcome to the post-conference website 2007 ATMC and our best regards to all the participants who attended the conference in Valencia !

We are very pleased to inform you of the success of the second edition of Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference (ATMC). The significance and prestige of this congress is clearly at an international level. This can simply be appreciated by the number and origin of all those who attended 2007 ATMC. We appreciated the arrival of nearly 200 researchers and representatives of companies and institutions from 5 continents. It was a pleasure to have met personally with academics and practitioners of tourism organizations of such diverse geographic origins and high standing.

As you have experienced it in Valencia , and since we called for papers in May 2006, we have been rewarded by the great collaboration of the scientific committee, the reviewers, speakers and all those of you who sent their contribution to promote research in destination and event marketing. We also thank those other organizations and people that helped and sponsored us and have made it possible for us to organise the 2007 ATMC.

During 2007 ATMC, plenary and parallel sessions were offered. Special plenary sessions were held with four invited key note speakers: Dr. Fayos-Solà, Dr. Gummesson, Dr. Donald Getz and the Spanish Secretary General for Tourism, Amparo Fernández. The complete Conference Program contained altogether 4 interesting round table discussions and 15 parallel sessions where we discussed, analyzed and reflected on the importance of managing networks in tourism destinations and event marketing.

As conference co-chairs we would like to express our gratitude to all the sponsors who are supporting this conference. In particular, the sponsorships are as follows: Universitat de València; Faculty of Economics; the United Nations World Tourism Organization; Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce; Ministry of Education and Science; Generalitat Valenciana; City of Arts and Sciences; Agencia Valenciana del Turismo; Turismo Valencia; Bancaja; the Air Nostrum Service Quality Professorship; Department of Marketing; the European Space for Higher Education and Criteria Marketing Communication.

Finally, we would like to reiterate a particularly warm thank-you to all the students who were involved in the conference. We wish also to reiterate our thanks to all of the participants and assistants to this Conference. We hope you had a safe and comfortable journey home and will remember your stay in Valencia for years to come.