[Workshop] CTR workshop 2026 “Regenerative Tourism beyond the ‘Sun, Sand, and Shopping’: Lessons from Guam”
公開日 2026.09.09
Since 2022, the Center for Tourism Research (CTR) at Wakayama University has been holding workshops for students and young researchers.
In this workshop, Professor Fred Schumann will explore the potential of Regenerative Tourism through diverse perspectives, including indigenous representation, cultural heritage, disaster recovery, and sustainability. Through both lecture and hands-on activities, participants will explore how tourism can support cultural integrity, environmental stewardship, and long-term community well-being.
This workshop will be organized in person. Please register and join us for free.
CTR workshop 2026 – session 2
"Regenerative Tourism beyond the 'Sun, Sand, and Shopping': Lessons from Guam"
Overview
In this workshop Professor Fred Schumann will address the regenerative potential of tourism by drawing on diverse interconnected areas ranging from indigenous representation and cultural heritage to disaster recovery and sustainability.
In the first part of the workshop, Prof. Schumann will introduce an important cultural performance, the Humåtak Reenactment of Magellan’s “discovery” of the island, and a public-private sustainability initiative, Guam Green Growth (3G). These two sites of destination’s agency offer entry points into issues of cultural representation and indigenous entrepreneurship through approaches such as Educational Tourism and Environmental Tourism. This leads to addressing critical questions of the value of authenticity over cultural commodity, as well as sustained destination health over short-term financial inflow. Regenerative Tourism, a framework in which the visitors actively contribute to restoring of resources, thus offers an important platform in response to traumatic histories of colonization and natural disaster.
In the second part of the workshop, the participants will engage in the task of designing a touristic itinerary, incorporating 3G, cultural integrity, and economic balance. The creative ideas generated by “small island tourism” cover wider and wider territories of economic thinking, concerned with cultural and environmental vulnerability.
Date
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time
10:50 AM ~ 0:20 PM (JST, GMT+9)
Venue
[In Person] Room E1-206, Bldg. East 1, Wakayama University
Speaker
Fred R. Schumann (Professor, University of Guam)
Fred R. Schumann is a Professor of Global Resources Management in the School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Guam. Dr. Schumann teaches courses in International Tourism and Hospitality and other tourism-related courses in the university’s business program. He oversees the University of Guam’s International Tourism and Hospitality Management courses and is a graduate faculty member in the University’s MBA program. His research interests focus on the sustainable development of small island economies in the Pacific region.
Moderator: Gabrakova Dennitza Stefanova (Professor, Institute of Global Initiatives, Wakayama University)
Registration
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Wakayama University
Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city 640-8510, JAPAN
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