CURRENT POSITION
Research Fellow, Department of Quality of Life Sciences, University of Bologna (IT) working on the research project "Back from the Sea".
Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna (IT)
EDUCATION
2010-2011 - Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (PGCert); accredited by the Higher Education Academy and awarded by the School of Education, University of Brighton (United Kingdom, UK).
This certificate is a requirement in order to teach at Higher Education level in the UK; it is based on a one year theoretical and research-based pedagogical programme concerning learning and teaching in Higher Education.
2004-2009 - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) awarded by the University of Brighton (13 July 2009).
This PhD research project was fully funded by the University of Brighton. It consisted on an exploration of the power dynamics underlying the cultural politics of change in English coastal resorts and the role of tourism in the conversion of first generation cold water post-mature seaside towns in England into sustainable cities by the sea.
2002-2003 - MA Tourism Management, MIB School of Management (Trieste, Italy)
1994-2002 - Honours Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures (English – spec., and French Cultural-Historic stream) (VO); awarded by IULM - Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione – International University of Languages and Media (Feltre, Italy). Final Year Dissertation (Subject: Human Geography) entitled: Melbourne: a post-Modern city on water.
EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
Research Fellow, since 01/11/2021.Department of Quality of Life Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Rimini Campus (IT).
Adjunct Professor, since 15/09/2020. School of Economics, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Rimini Campus (IT).
Visiting Lecturer, since 11/2022. Institute of Tourism and Mobility ITM, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Lucerne, Switzerland)
Coordinator and Lead Academic, since 03/2020. Cross-Cultural Analysis unit of the “Active Learning Lab – Export Manager” programme; School of Economics, Languages and Entrepreneurship for International Exchange (SELISI), University of Venice Ca’ Foscari (Campus Treviso – IT).
Visiting Lecturer, since 1/11/2018. Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences (Appeldoorn, the Netherlands) partner with the University of Brighton (UK). Module leader for a selection of MSc and MBM modules on Tourism, Sports and Hospitality Management.
Visiting Professor in Tourism Management and International Development, Project MYA/001 Mentoring the Development of University Tourism Education (T5A5) from May 2018 to September 2018; LuxDev - Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency at Mandalar Degree College - now Mandalar University (Mandalay, Myanmar).
Expert in Tourism Management and International Development, Consultant on Project MYA/001 for the Development of Human Resources in the Hotel and Tourism Sector and Capacity Development of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism from January 2018 to October 2018; LuxDev - Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency in Yangon (Myanmar).
Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management and International Development from 01/01/2016 to 30/10/2017; School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton (UK).
Lecturer in Tourism Management, from01/01/2009 to 31/12/2016; School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton (UK).
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
Forte, A. and Mariotti, A. (2024) “Regenerative thinking in Yachting Tourism. Insights from the Northern Adriatic Sea”. Tourism Geographies. (article under review)
Forte, A. (2022) "From Sea to Shore: Reuniting the Divide by Yachting." Geography Notebooks - Quaderni Di Geografia - Cahiers De Géographie - Cuadernos De Geografía. Vol.5, 1, pp. 87-98. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7358/gn-2022-001-fort
SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS.
DCC-CR (Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience) workshop Sharing best practices in the sustainable management of coastal environments. Paper presented titled: “Reversing the viewpoint over the land-sea divide: yachting tourism as potential trigger of coastal resilience” presented with prof. Alessia Mariotti. Palazzo Malvezzi, Bologna, 12-13/12/2023.
UGI-IGU Milan 2023 “The Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought-IGU Thematic conference. University of Milano-Bicocca, 6-8 June 2023 (Milan, IT). Paper presented with Prof. Alessia Mariotti titled: The Bio-cultural Dimension of ‘Being At’ and ‘Going By’ Sea
in Novel Forms of Yachting Tourism; thematic stream: Powered by blowing winds, routed by glittering stars, drifted by unfavorable streams? Being at sea as a tourism resource in geographical thought.
UGI-IGU Paris 2022 “Le Temps des Geographes - Time for Geographers” The Centennial Congress. Universite’ Paris 1 Pahntheon Sorbonne, 18-22 July 2022. Paper presented with Prof. Alessia Mariotti titled: Sea Communities: Exploring Regenerative Tourism in Yachting.
Thematic stream: Regenerative Development and Tourism Geographies: A Timely Turn?
International Conference “Between Overtourism and Undertourism: Implications and Crisis Management. Lecce, University of Salento, 26-29 June 2019. Paper presented with Dr. Angela M. Benson titled ‘Complexities of Over and Under Tourism in Myanmar’; thematic stream: Conflict Management in Over- and Undertourism Settings.
CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE MEMBER
IGU Thematic conference 2023 The Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought. Chair of the session titled “Powered by blowing winds, routed by glittering stars, drifted by unfavorable streams? Being at sea as a tourism resource in geographical thought”. Milan (Italy), University of Milano-Bicocca, 6-7 June.
5th International Symposium on Tourism and Sustainability. ‘Imagine There’s No Countries: Inequality and Growth in the Age of Tourism’. University of Brighton, 22-23 June 2006.
4th Symposium on Tourism and Sustainability. ‘The End of Tourism? Mobility and Local-Global Connections’. University of Brighton, June 23-24-2005.
3rd Symposium on Tourism and Sustainability. ‘Local Frameworks and Global Realities. Tourism, Politics and Democracy’. University of Brighton (UK), 9-10 September 2004.
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Public Talk at Ecomondo, Forum Strategico Regionale per la Blue Economy (BLU-ER), first co-design meeting on the theme “Coast and Tourism 2.0" at BLU-ER stand by ART-ER (6 Novembre 2024, Ecomondo – RiminiFiera)
International Conference Cervia Vision 2028, Cervia (IT) 3 April 2009. Paper presented: ‘Seaside Towns and Urban Renewal’.
