From 30 September to 2 October 2025 the CityDNA Autumn Conference will gather destination leaders, urban innovators and tourism professionals in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Under the theme “Refreshed City Perspectives: Reshaping, Rebalancing, Reigniting the Visitor Economy”, the event replaces conventional plenaries with place-based walkshops, campfire conversations, participatory labs and peer exchanges designed to test ideas and generate actionable approaches for city tourism.

CityDNA Autumn Conference 2025 — agenda, keynotes and the Tórshavn Declaration

Highlights include keynote contributions from The House of Beautiful Business (Jesse May Palmer and Dima Samarin) on emotionally intelligent, community-driven futures, and Dr Caitlin Morrissey on urban distinctiveness. Practical sessions address AI in the visitor economy, scenario planning for 2035, community-led tourism models and positioning city tourism within the EU policy agenda.

For the first time CityDNA will co-create a collective manifesto — the Tórshavn Declaration — through live Declaration Labs, interactive polling and collaborative idea walls to capture shared values around regenerative, inclusive and resident-centred tourism. The main programme will take place at SILO, a repurposed 1930s salt silo on Tórshavn’s harbour, with an opening day of curated place-based content on 30 September (The Tórshavn Sessions).

Registration is open until 23 September 2025.