5th International Scientific Conference on IT, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture
ITEMA 2021October 21, 2021
ONLINE-Virtual
The aim of ITEMA 2021 conference is to bring together academic community (experts, scientists, engineers, researchers, students and others) and publication of their papers with the purpose of popularization of science and their personal and collective affirmation.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conference will take place virtually and ONLINE with 35% registration fee discount.
Program will combine presentations of the latest scientific developments in Information Technologies, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture, interactive discussions and other forms of interpersonal exchange of experiences.
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Preliminary conference proceedings content of the ITEMA 2021
This year more than 100 authors will give their contribution to the conference with the abstract/paper from 20 different countries:
- Austria,
- Bosnia and Herzegovina,
- Bulgaria,
- Croatia,
- Czech Republic,
- Germany,
- Greece,
- Hungary,
- Italy,
- Malaysia,
- North Macedonia,
- Portugal,
- Romania,
- Russian Federation,
- Saudi Arabia,
- Serbia,
- Slovakia,
- Slovenia,
- Spain,
- Ukraine.
The conference theme is
Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism,
Economics, Management and
Agriculture
All accepted full papers for the ITEMA 2021 International Scientific Conference will be placed in the ITEMA 2021 Conference Proceedings Pre-draft. Afterwards there will be three circles of full papers’ selection from the ITEMA 2021 Conference Proceedings pre-draft:
1st Circle – Selected papers will be published in the publication titled: ITEMA 2021 Selected Papers – the 5th Conference on IT, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture with an ISSN number. This publication will be submitted to indexation and / or publication and / or the listing at the ISI Web of Science (WOS) Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SCOPUS, EBSCO, CiteSeerX, ERA, ProQuest, Google Books, Google Scholar database and so on.
2nd Circle – Extended and improved versions of the selected papers will be published in a monograph as book chapters. There will be additional independent peer review process.
3rd Circle – Extended and improved versions of the selected papers will be published in highly esteemed partner journals published in different countries by different faculties and universities.
If the full paper is being published in one of the above named publications from the three circles, its abstract will be published in the ITEMA 2021 Book of Abstracts (ISBN and ISSN numbers will be assigned).
Other, non-selected full papers, but accepted for the conference, will be published in the ITEMA 2021 Conference Proceedings (ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will be assigned).
Full paper and abstract publication does not require online or virtual presentation.
Certificate of attendance will be send by regular mail to all registred authors after the conference.
Official language of the ITEMA 2021 conference is English. Papers may be written and presented in English.
Except conference registration fee, there are no any additional nor hidden publication costs.
In order to avoid high commission of money transfer by bank wire transfer which may go up to 35% of the transferred amount, participants may pay the conference registration fee via PayPal (5% commission).
All received papers prior peer review process will be subject of plagiarism check with iThenticate by Turnitin software. Afterwards, papers will be peer reviewed by the reviewers drawn from the scientific committee or external reviewers depending on the topic, title and the subject matter of the paper.
Selection of papers which will be presented at the conference day will be based upon quality, originality, and relevance.
Publication of one paper prior requires payment of one registration fee, regardless of the number of authors (is there one author or two/three co-authors). Each participant may submit a maximum of two papers. Number of co-authors per paper is limited to three.
Presentation mode for 5th ITEMA Conference
There are two options: virtual and online (live presentation).
1. Virtual: Participants who would like to join us via virtual presentation should email us their “voice over PowerPoint” presentation narrated in English in a duration of max 10 minutes (this short instructional video presents how the narration may be done, here you can find additional instruction on how to do it);
2. Online (live presentation): Participants who would like to join us via online (live) presentation will be able to present their papers live. Each presenter will have 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for Q/A.
Details about these options (software, submission deadline of “voice over PowerPoint” presentation, etc.) will be provided to participants after abstract submission.
Special emphasis for ITEMA 2021 is given to the key topic:
Pandemic Crisis – Challenges and Forecasting for a Sustainable Future
The world is in a pandemic crisis. States, multilateral organizations, companies, entrepreneurs and citizens are in urgent need for strategies to fight, cope with and ease pandemic as well as to protect their societies and economies during and after the crisis.
We welcome empirical or theoretical contributions with general case studies and literature surveys which meet ITEMA 2021 conference criteria and deal with the key topic Pandemic Crisis – Challenges and Forecasting for a Sustainable Future. The following areas and key words are of the particular interest, but not limited to:
Information technology
- Digital transformation of the society: opportunities and challenges
- Technology and its values in the outbreak of coronavirus
Tourism
- Tourism in crisis: global threats to sustainable tourism futures
- Resilience of tourism city brands
- Local impact of pandemic on host-guest relationships in tourism cities
- Changes in travel behaviors and responses from tourism cities
- Innovation-based responses by smart tourism cities
- Virtual city tourism perspectives as alternative experiences to physical travel
Economics and Management
- Cross-country studies of pandemic impact on the economy
- Economic history of pandemic crisis
- Emerging markets and the pandemic
- European Union, the Euro Area and the pandemic
- Global competitiveness and pandemic
- Long-term socio-economic effects of the pandemic crisis
- Pandemic and employment
- Pandemic and financial markets
- Pandemic crisis and macroeconomic developments
- Pandemic crisis and sovereign debt
- Pandemic crisis and wealth distribution
- Private households and pandemic crisis
- The economics of shut down
- The relationship of state and markets to overcome the pandemic
- The role of multilateral economic organizations in a pandemic crisis
- The role of national and international development banks in pandemic crisis
- The role of the state in pandemic crisis
- International collaboration in the outbreak of coronavirus
- Policy reactions and implications to emerging countries
- What does the future hold in terms of social change (e.g., localization, new norms of behavior)?
- HR pandemic plan
- Pandemic Planning: How companies should respond
- R&D and innovation management during Covid-19
Agriculture
- Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural and food systems worldwide
- Post-COVID-19 agriculture and food security
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The ITEMA Conference is Organised by
Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans headquartered in Belgrade – Serbia is a non-governmental and non-profit association, founded in 2014 to support the development of scientific thought in the region, development of management and economics profession, as well as education of its members and the general public.
The Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans currently has more than 200 members who came from more than 130 different institutions, more specifically, members from Balkans countries as associate members and honorary members from other countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, etc.).
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