4 DAYS
50 SPEAKERS
4 ROUND TABLES
100 PARTICIPANTS

2024 Costa da Morte

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ABOUT

ABOUT EVENT

The Annual Starlight Meeting of Astrotourism, is an event with the participation of Starlight certified territories and accommodations, people trained by the Starlight Foundation as Monitors and Guides, and professionals related to Starlight movement, who meet to exchange experiences, discuss issues associated with astrotourism, and establish guidelines for the future.

The “tourism of the stars”, or Astrotourism, promoted by the Starlight Foundation (www.fundacionstarlight.org) is an emerging, high-quality and innovative modality of sustainable and responsible tourism, which in turn is a driver of the local economy. It combines the observation of the sky with activities related to this natural resource; stars, galaxies and the dissemination of astronomy.

To encourage this scientific tourism it is necessary to protect the night sky, thereby enabling energy savings and mitigating the effects of climate change while combining the starscape with the natural, cultural, scientific, biodiversity and environmental assets in those places that care for the night sky.

WHERE

Cee,  A Coruña , Galicia
Spain.

WHEN

Tuesday to Friday
1st to 4th October 2024

CONFERENCES

CONFERENCES

The Values of Astrotourism

  • Science and society
  • The science as culture
  • Tourism as cultural dialogue
  • Importance of tourism in the popularization of science
  • Cultural value of scientific tourism
  • Features of the scientific tourism
  • Scientific tourism, an opportunity
  • Singularity of Astronomy as science
  • The dark sky: Humankind’s cultural heritage
  • Values of the night sky
  • “The Starlight Declaration in the Defense of the Night Sky and the Right to the Light of the Stars” (La Palma, 2007)

MEET

OUR SPEAKERS

Astrotourism: An instrument for sustainability and for climate change mitigation

  • Strategic value: economic and energy saving
  • Dialogue of the cities and historical places with the stars
  • Protection of the night sky
  • Night sky: environment and biodiversity
  • Night sky and Health: a factor of quality of life
  • Tourism as an instrument to mitigate climate change and for sustainability

Astrotourism and Local Economic Development

  • Dimensions of astrotourism
  • Importance of sustainable tourism for the development of rural territories
  • Nature tourism: addition of the starred landscape
  • Astrotourism against the depopulation in rural areas
  • Opportunity of the creation of new products of Astrotourism
  • In times of tourism-phobia how the Astrotourism is integrated in the territories.
  • Management of territories declared Starlight Reserves and Starlight Tourist Destinations
  • The challenge of the quality
  • Starlight modalities as possible prototypes

Where

to stay

Costa da Morte


Spain

Education, Training and Outreach

  • Starlight training: guides, monitors, auditors, lighting technicians, teachers
  • Synergies with Astrophysics Research Centers, Astronomical Observatories and Universities
  • International cooperation with Amateur Astronomers Associations and with AWB
  • Communication and marketing of Astrotourism places and activities
  • Light pollution in the press
  • Use of new technologies in Astrotourism
  • The value of the night sky: a pending subject in the schools
  • Astrotourism: a potential University Master Degree
  • Alliances with the UNWTO, IAU and UNESCO

SPEAKERS

SPEAKERS

ALEJANDRO CESINI

Aleix Roig

Antonia M. Varela

Apolónia Rodrígues

Federico de Paz

J. Álvaro

Jorge Mira

Catedrático de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Juan Vicente Ledesma

Julio González

CEO Grupo Digital Press

Pamela Duarte

SERNATUR, Chile

ROBERTO RODRÍGUEZ

Rafael Bachiller

Rafael Rebolo

Ramon I. Canyelles

SARA RODRÍGUEZ

Susana Malón

Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

18:00 - 18:25

Registration

18:30 -

Departure from Casa de la Cultura Cee

19:30 -

Welcome cocktail

In Náutico de Razo, Carballo

10:00 - 10:30

Opening Ceremony- Welcoming Starlight meeting

10:30 - 13:30

SESSION 1: Values of astrotourism and Starlight certification: 16 years of commitment to the Declaration of La Palma. (I)

10:30 - 11:00 Starlight Foundation: present and future challenges
11:00 - 11:30 Costa da Morte Starlight Tourist Destination: Engagement with Astrotourism
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:20 Astrotourism strategy on Costa da Morte
12:20 - 12:40 Mariñas Coruñesas, Biosphere Reserve and Starlight Tourist Destination
12:40 - 13:00 Vimianzo Starlight

Antonia M. Varela

Antonia M. Varela

13:00 - 13:30

Discussion

13:30 - 14:00

Round table - National and International Press: astronomy and astrotourism in the media

SARA RODRÍGUEZ

SARA RODRÍGUEZ

ALEJANDRO CESINI

ALEJANDRO CESINI

14:00 - 15:00

Lunch

15:00 - 17:00

SESSION 2: Astrotourism and Local Sustainable Development

15:00 - 15:20 La Palma, The Star
15:20 - 15:40 Colombia Starlight Tourist Destination
15:40 - 16:00 Allande Stars: history and heritage under the stars
16:00 - 16:20 Tourism Governance: Cuevas del Becerro Municipality Starlight
16:20 - 16:40 Stellarium Ávila: betting on astrotourism
16:40 - 17:00 Alqueva Dark Sky@ Starlight Tourist Destination
17:00 - 17:20 Astrotourism in Chile
17:20 - 17:40 Nova Scotia renews double Starlight certification

17:40 - 18:00

Discussion

19:30 - 23:50

Excursion to Cabo Touriñan (Muxía), last sunset of continental Europe.

09:30 - 12:30

SESSION 3: - Experiences and communication in astrotourism and communication (1st part)

09:30 - 09:50 The image, a conservation tool
09:50 - 10:10 Starlight Certification and Personal Branding: Because YOU are worth it
10:10 - 10:30 Digital Marketing in Astroturism
10:30 - 10:50 Post Pandemic Sustainable Tourism
10:50 - 11:10 Sustenible tourism from a woman's point of view
11:10 - 11:30Discussion
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30

Round Table: UNWTO Working Group Scientific Tourism and Astrotourism

12:30 - 14:00

Session 4. Experiences and communication in astrotourism (2nd part).

12:30 - 12:50STARMUS is back to La Palma
12:50 - 13:10 Views of the sky: astrotourism and the anthropological perspective
13:10 - 13:30 The sky and business models

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch

15:00 - 16:00

SESSION 4 - (3th part)

15:00 - 15:20 Dynamization without telescope
15:20 - 15:40 Preservation of a destination 22 (mag/arcseg2)
15:40 - 16:00Discovering a new nebula from Prades

16:00 - 17:00

Session 5 - Protecting the Night Sky: science, sustainability and climate change mitigation

16:00 - 16:30 The ELT: the world's largest optical telescope
16:30 - 16:50 First trip: flying blind in an enlightened world
16:50 - 17:10Good practices in outdoor lighting. The evolution of lighting in large cities
17:10 - 17:30 Lalín's astronomical past and today's Starlight Tourist Destination

17:30 - 18:00

Discussion

20:30 - 23:50

Closing dinner and Starlight Awards Ceremony

09:30 - 12:00

SESSION 6: 5th Starlight Guides and Monitors Meeting

09:30 - 09:45 Eclipse262728, challenges and opportunities
09:45 - 10:00 I am already a Starlight monitor. And now?
10:00 - 10:15 Astroversia, we bring you closer to the stars inside and outside the classroom.
10:15 - 10:30 How to deseasonalize astrotourism and attract all audiences
10:30 - 10:50 Presentation of the book "Diminuto Planeta Azul, el Universo visto desde Menorca".
10:50 - 11:10 Libre Te Cielo - Glimpses and stories under the starry sky
11:10 - 11:30 Stellar mythology in different cultures.
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:30 - 13:00

Round Table: Round table: Challenges of astrotourism

13:00 - 13:30

Discussion

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch

15:00 - 15:30

Round Table: Sky Quality and the Access of the Starlight: SDG 18

03:30 - 16:30

Presentations/ Commissions and Starlight Working Groups

16:30 - 17:30

Conclusions and closing

18:00 - 19:00

Public Talk: Public Talk: The Costa da Morte, the coast of the setting sun

Jorge Mira

Jorge Mira

19:20 - 23:50

Excursion to Finisterre. Night observation

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