International Conference
International Conference on Language Learning for Professional Purposes in Hospitality and Tourism.
15th – 16th November 2019 - Filoxenia Conference Centre, Nicosia
This conference is organised by the Higher Hotel Institute Cyprus and the University of Cyprus (Department of French and European Studies and the Language Centre) with the support of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the French Institute of Cyprus, the Goethe-Institute Cyprus and the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Nicosia.
The conference aims to address the latest methodological developments in teaching and learning foreign languages for professional purposes and expose their relevance and importance to the Hospitality and Tourism Industry.
The conference will include plenary sessions with interventions by invited key-note speakers and parallel workshops on the practical implementation of the proposed methodologies/approaches in different contexts.
Key-note speakers
Mrs. Sonia Figueras, United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
As. Prof. Chantal Parpette, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Dr. Karl-Hubert Kiefer, Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Ana Gimeno-Sanz, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Prof. Margarita Rusetskaya, Russian State Institute of Pushkin of Russian Language