Congress

Fairway is, in essence, a business meeting with the Camino de Santiago as the protagonist. Therefore, the Congress intends to deal with and build bridges between current issues and trends, as well as training and debate aspects, with issues that really concern a very broad professional sector and multidisciplinary field that is linked to the Jacobean routes: accommodation , destinations, SMEs of tourism services, restaurants, tourism students, etc.

Congress

Fairway is, in essence, a business meeting with the Camino de Santiago as the protagonist. Therefore, the Congress intends to deal with and build bridges between current issues and trends, as well as training and debate aspects, with issues that really concern a very broad professional sector and multidisciplinary field that is linked to the Jacobean routes: accommodation , destinations, SMEs of tourism services, restaurants, tourism students, etc.

Program

Check the complete program of the Fairway 2019, both on Sunday in the Open day and in the program for professionals on Monday and Tuesday filled with lectures, discussion tables and training workshops with a careful selection of speakers for this edition of the Fairway, III Forum of the Camino de Santiago.

You can watch the videos of the conferences and discussion tables of the Fairway 2019 congress on our YouTube channel.

Colloquium Conference: The Camino de Santiago as an experiential journey
Colloquium Conference: The Camino de Santiago as an experiential journey
10:00 - 11:00
Obradoiro

Experts in tourism as an ideal channel to generate emotions, in experiential marketing, in travel notebooks and in daily dealings with tourists and pilgrims will share their reflections on the Camino de Santiago as a journey of life.

The Camino de Santiago represents a vital experience for many of the people who decide to take the route. Many people who do coincide in pointing out that the Jacobean route has marked a before and after in their lives.

Moderator: Verónica Núñez, Axencia Galega de Noticias (AGN) - El Progreso


José Cantero (Consultant, trainer and lecturer in experiential marketing and tourism)

"El Camino de Santiago: ejemplo de éxito como producto de turismo experiencial y vivencial". It is the title of one of the last articles that José Cantero, consultant and trainer in marketing and experiential tourism, has published on his blog. He argues that "it is difficult to find a tourist product in the world that can give so much meaning to the person who makes it; either as a religious experience or as a traveling, vital and personal experience. "

(Communication Manager of Atrápalo)

Atrápalo's brand identity and strategy occupy a large part of her time as Communications Director of an international company that not only specializes in online travel sales but also commercializes experiences. The latter will be the object of his speech, in which he will explain how to go from consuming an activity to enjoying an experience.

David Mora (Consultant, trainer and speaker in tourism and hospitality. Emoturismo.)

How to generate emotions through tourism. This is the big question that David Mora tries to unravel in Emoturismo, his personal project. The relevant thing, then, is that the tourist services transmit experiences, experiences ... and, above all, that these are memorable. The Camino de Santiago has all the ingredients to achieve it.

Antonio Armesto (Technical director of Animatium Central)

Technical Director of Experiences of Destiny, will underline in his conference "THE GLOCAL BUSINESS" the importance of putting value on local resources to achieve the economic and social dynamization of municipalities, environments, destinations ... or the Camino de Santiago. Advocates, then, for raising awareness about the relevance of visualizing their cultural, historical and gastronomic heritage ...

Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Discussion table: Xacobeo 2021
Discussion table: Xacobeo 2021
11:30 - 14:00
Obradoiro

 

Eleven years after the last Holy Year and with the Camino de Santiago breaking records, this table aims that administrations, companies linked to the route and the tourism sector, in general, know the main lines of the Xacobeo 2021 and the meaning it will have for Galicia and its own pilgrimage path.

Discussion table: The Camino de Santiago, a safe path
Discussion table: The Camino de Santiago, a safe path
16:00 - 18:30
Obradoiro

 

This table opens the doors to the debate on aspects related to security on the Camino de Santiago in all its breadth, taking into account its great complexity because of its multiple structures, its great length, the high number of nationalities that converge on the route, etc.