Stenden University celebrates the installation of its associate professor for Scenario Planning

by Gaby Seemann, European Tourism Futures Institute

On January 20th 2012, the official installation of the associate professor for Scenario Planning, Albert Postma took place at Stenden University Leeuwarden. Family, friends, academics, pofessionals and other stakeholders of Stenden and its European Tourism Futures Institute (ETFI) came together to celebrate this important milestone.

Postma started his speech by highlighting the past of tourism research at Stenden University, the revolution of future studies and the way we look at the future nowadays. He explained the insecurities of the future, how and if future can be influenced. Moreover, methods how to get a hold of our future(s), the differences between forecasting and foresight were elaborated and of course scenario planning and how it is adapted by the ETFI were introduced. Clickhere to read the full script of his presentation (NL).

Full article Science Guide in Dutch: http://www.scienceguide.nl/201201/stenden-installeert-lector-scenarioplanning.aspx