HOW ARE THE WINNERS SELECTED?

HOW ARE THE WINNERS SELECTED?

EVALUATION PROCESS

Evaluation Step 1

All submitted, admissible and eligible applications are evaluated against a set of established criteria by a panel of independent experts. The evaluation by the experts determines which cities are the best performers in each individual category. Moreover, on the basis of their evaluation, the Commission establishes a short-list of a maximum of 10 cities that are invited to present their candidatures in front of a European Jury.

Evaluation Step 2

The European Jury selects the two European Capitals of Smart Tourism. In addition, the European Smart Tourism Awards are given to the four cities that achieve the highest scores in the individual categories amongst all applicant cities.

EVALUATION PROCESS

Evaluation Step 1

All submitted, admissible and eligible applications are evaluated against a set of established criteria by a panel of independent experts. The evaluation by the experts determines which cities are the best performers in each individual category. Moreover, on the basis of their evaluation, the Commission establishes a short-list of a maximum of 10 cities that are invited to present their candidatures in front of a European Jury.

Evaluation Step 2

The European Jury selects the two European Capitals of Smart Tourism. In addition, the European Smart Tourism Awards are given to the four cities that achieve the highest scores in the individual categories amongst all applicant cities.

EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF SMART TOURISM 2020 COMPETITION

European Jury

CO-Chairs of the European Jury

Sławomir Tokarski

Co-chair on behalf of the European Commission:

Director for Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

István Ujhelyi

Co-chair on behalf of the European Parliament:

Vice-Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, Member of the European Parliament

Other Members of the Jury

Anna Athanasopoulou

Head of Tourism, Emerging and Creative Industries, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar

Member of the European Parliament, Committee on Transport and Tourism

Annemiek Jetten

Mayor (Burgemeester) of Vlaardingen (The Netherlands), Member of the European Committee of the Regions

Sanna Kyyrä

Chief Specialist in Tourism Policy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland

Suzanne Blenski

Adviser, Legal and European Affairs at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance of France

Panel of experts

Charles -E Bélanger

Director of International Social Tourism Organisation (ISTO)

Vera Bonvalot

Vice-president of the BIF in Europe and Executive Director of the National Federation for TBI

Eoin O'Herlihy

Accessibility consultant and trainer at OHAC

Alicia Barragan

Consultant in Accessibility in Tourism ILUNION Technology and Accessibility

Luísa Carvalho

Professor at Universidade Aberta and CEFAGE - Universidade de Évora

Xavier Font

Professor of Sustainability Marketing - University of Surrey, UK

Peter Reelfs

Sustainability Advisor - Lecturer, Northflash

Maurizio Davolio

President of Italian Association for Responsible Tourism (AITR)

Ilona Asare

Board Member at European Network of Cultural Centres

Karin Drda-Kühn

Managing Director of Association Culture & Work

Caroline Couret

Founder and Director of Creative Tourism Network®

Mieke Renders

Managing Director of Trans Europe Halles (Network of cultural centres)

Sergey Balandin

President at FRUCT Oy and adjunct Professor and Tampere University of Technology

Elena M. Aramendia-Muneta

Researcher at HoNEST and lecturer of Marketing at Universidad Pública de Navarra

José Luis Córdoba Leiva

Director, AndaluciaLab

Dimitrios Buhalis

Head of Department Tourism and Hospitality, and Director of the eTourism Lab at Bournemouth University in England

EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF SMART TOURISM 2019 COMPETITION

European Jury

CO-Chairs of the European Jury

Sławomir Tokarski

Co-chair on behalf of the European Commission:

Director for Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

Renaud Muselier

Co-chair on behalf of the European Parliament:

Member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, Vice-President of the French delegation to the EPP Group, Member of the European Parliament

István Ujhelyi

Co-chair on behalf of the European Parliament:

Vice-Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, Member of the European Parliament

Other Members of the Jury

Anna Athanasopoulou

Head of Tourism, Emerging and Creative Industries, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

Ossi Martikainen

Member of the European Committee of the Regions, Chair of the Commission for Natural Resources (NAT)

Angelika Liedler

Director for International Tourism Affairs at the Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism, Austria

Savina Nedyalkova

State Expert in Strategic Planning and Product Development at the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria

Panel of experts

Alejandra Faura (Sandra) DePuig

Project Officer at NECSTouR, the Network of European Regions for Sustainable and Competitive Tourism

Antonio Puliafito

Professor of Computer Engineering at University of Messina, Co-founder of

Dr. Axel Jockwer

Tourism consultant and start-up coach

Caroline Couret

Founder and Director of Creative Tourism Network®

Dirk Schmücker

Head of Research at NIT - Institut for Tourismus in Northern Europe

Edward Humphrey Roger Goodacre

Chairman of the Tourism Consultants Network

Elena M. Aramendia-Muneta

Researcher at HoNEST and lecturer of Marketing at Universidad Pública de Navarra

Fouli (Theonymfi) Papageorgiou

Managing Director PRISMA Centre for Development Studies

Ilona Asare

Board Member at European Network of Cultural Centres

Iulia Niculica

Project Officer at European Travel Commission

Ivor Ambrose

Managing Director European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT) a.s.b.l.

Jean-Luc Simon

Chair of the Disabled Peoples' International European Region

Karin Drda-Kühn

Managing Director of Association Culture & Work

Luísa Carvalho

Professor at Universidade Aberta and CEFAGE - Universidade de Évora

Riccardo Beltramo

Professor at University of Torino, Department of Management, Commodity Science Area

Robert Manchin

President, Culture Action Europe

Sergey Balandin

President at FRUCT Oy and adjunct Professor and Tampere University of Technology

Vera Bonvalot

Vice-president of the BIF in Europe and Executive Director of the National Federation for TBI