Call for papers

Anthropology in the World Conference

8th-10th June 2012 - at the British Museum, Clore Centre.

Deadline for abstracts is 16th January.

Find out more here... 

RGS-IBG Annual Conference : The Geographies of Leisure? 

3rd-5th July 2012 - to be held at Edinburgh University

Deadline for abstracts is 23rd January

Find out more here...

Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel conference
6-9 July 2012 - in Liverpool

Deadline for abstracts is 6th February

Find out more here... 

Call for papers

This is a request for submission of full research papers, working papers, and/or posters for the 7th International Coastal & Marine Tourism Congress. It will take place 4-8 June 2012 in the Netherlands with keynote speakers, Dr Sheela Agarwal and Dr Brian Wheeller. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 13th January 2012.

Call for Papers

Call for papers:

International conference
Gender issues: Implications for leisure and tourism

March 1st-3rd, 2012
University of Aveiro, Portugal

Key Dates :
Abstract submission: December 15th, 2011
Acceptance notification: January 20th, 2012
Full paper: May 25th, 2012

  For further information visit the website 
or email: degei-gentour@ua.pt

The Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends would like papers on the theme of Rural Tourism for a forthcoming issue. The submission deadline is  
19th February 2011

More information can be found here

Play the Game 2009

The title for this year's Play the Game 2009 conference is Visions for Sport in Times of Crisis. It is to be hosted at the Centre for the International Business of Sport at Coventry University from 8-12 June. Themes include:

• Ethics in governance: Will sports federations come clean?
• Between Beijing and London: Mega-events as drivers of development
• Business battles: The power struggles in football
• Match-fixing: A blow to the core of sport
• Terrible teenagers? Sport’s quest for the hearts and minds of the youth
• Anti-Doping: Will the technological arms race come to an end?
• Paralympic athletes: More different than the rest?
• Sport for the Good: What is it good for?
• Open forum

There is still time to submit papers, the deadline is 31 March.

Int. J. of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship

A special edition of this journal will be published which will examine what effect scandal and corruption has on sponsorship of sporting events. Papers submitted on any aspect of the relationship between scandal, corruption and sponsorship will be considered for publication with a deadline for final submission of 31st January 2009 more...

Conferences and call for papers

CFP Heritage in Asia - converging forces and conflicting values: Singapore, 8-10 Jan 09

Globalization, Development and Tourism: Mega Events and City Tourism: Shanghai, 6-9 Nov 08

IIPT First European Conference on Tourism and Peace: Netherlands, 21-24 Oct 08

International Conference on Tourism Development and Management: Kos Greece, 20-23 June 09

National Sports Development Seminar: Sheffield, 3-4 Sept 08

RSA Tourism 08: Developing tourist destinations: Denmark, 26-28 Nov 08

To do list...

Call for papers: Journal of Tourism Consumption & Practice
Call for papers: New Journal - Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia, and South America
Call for papers: Association for Tourism in HE 2008 Conference - 3-5 Dec, Canterbury
Call for papers: State of Tourism in Africa - for Tourism Analysis Journal; email Kenneth Backman for further details
Final call for papers: RC50 (International Tourism) - 24-26 Nov, Jaipur, India
Call for chapters: The Experience of Tourism & Leisure: consumer & management perspectives (to be edited by Morgan, Lugosi & Ritchie)
Summer School: Territorial Development: culture, itineraries & creativity - 15-16 Sept, University of Bologna, Rimini

Tourism Calendar...

There is an invitation to join a new Nordic/Baltic research network in historical leisure studies, which also looks at second homes - please contact Henrik Halkier in the first instance.

The Escola Universitaria d'Hoteleria i Turisme will be the setting for the Barcelona Tourism Summer Course running from 30 June to 11 July 08 more

Traditions & Transformations: Tourism, Heritage & Cultural Change in the Middle East & North Africa region on 4-7 April 2009 in Jordan - conference and call for papers

International Society of Tourism & Travel Educators on 30 Sept-2 Oct 2008 in Dublin

Enter 2009: International Federation for IT, Travel & Tourism on 28-30 Jan 2009 in Amsterdam - call for papers

Tourist Experiences: meanings, motivations, behaviours on 1-4 April 2009 at University of Central Lancashire - extended call for papers

New Title - The Experience of Tourism and Leisure: consumer and management perspectives - To be edited by Brent Ritchie, Morgan and Lugosi; call for chapters, proposals by 31 July. Email Mike Morgan for further details.

Call for Papers

A new online publication 'Journal of Tourism Consumption & Practice', is due to be launched later this year and they are currently asking for submissions for the first issue. The journal will mainly focus on the interplay between the production and consumption of tourism as forms of interaction between people and place. Find out more...

Conferences Update

Cultural & Religious Tourism - opportunities and challenges for the 21st Century
22-24 April, Portugal more...

Private Enterprises & Sustainability in Tourism - roads and road blocks
12-13 May in Kerala, India more...

Sport Tourism and Sustainability: inter-relationships, impacts and issues
13-15 May, Malaysia more...

UNWTO Education & Knowledge Management: meeting future challenges
28-29 May in Madrid, Spain more...

Exploring Tourism II: issues in PhD Research
29-30 May, Bournemouth University, UK more...

Attractions & Events as Catalysts for Regeneration & Social Change (+ call for papers)
24-25 September, University of Nottingham, UK more...

International Conference 2008 - Cultural and Event Tourism: Issues & Debates
5-9 November in Alanya, Turkey (and still accepting papers) more...

Call for Papers

You may wish to submit abstracts/papers for inclusion in the following:

• 2008 World Conference of the Air Transport Research Society (Athens, Greece - 6-10 July)


• Working Group on Tourism, Regional, Development and Public Policy (Izmir, Turkey - 2-4 April)


• International Society of Tourism and Travel Educator’s Annual Conference (Dublin, Ireland - 30 Sept - 2nd Oct)


• Selling or Telling? Paradoxes in Tourism, Culture and Heritage (Brighton, UK - 2-4 July)


• Advances in Tourism Research 2008 (Aveiro, Portugal - 26-28 May)


• World Journal of Tourism, Leisure & Sports - new journal

Call for Papers

6th Rural Entrepenurship Conference
Rural Regional Development Sustainability
Abstracts by 31.01.08

Challenges Facing Football in the 21st Century
Abstracts by 31.01.08

Accessible Tourism - (Special Thematic Session)

Abstracts by 01.02.08

Health in Tourism & Leisure
Abstracts by 11.02.08

Olympic Legacy: People, Place, Enterprise
Abstracts by 28.02.08

Conference Update

Journeys of Expression VII - Celebrating the Edges of the World: Tourism and Festivals of the Coast and Sea will be held 29th Feb-1st March 08 at University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Abstracts required by 14th December 2007 more...

Football & Television is a free event sponsored and supported by Coventry & Warwickshire 2012 Partnership and the BBC, to be held at Coventry University on 24th Jan 08. Admission is free, email Dr Simon Chadwick.

Call for Papers: Community, Capital and Cultures:Leisure and Regeneration as Cultural Practice for conference taking place 8-10th July 08 at Liverpool John Moores University. Deadline for abstracts - 15th Jan 08 more...

Call for Papers: The University of Savoie at Chambéry will be hosting their 4th research conference on leisure and tourism marketing with a specific focus on mountain tourism, 6th June 08, submissions by 10th March 08. Email me for further details.

Backpacker Mobilities? ATLAS Conference

The ATLAS Backpacker Research Group are organising a conference on backpacker tourism from 26-28th March 2008. It will be held at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla in India and are now calling for papers on the following themes:

• The rituals of preparation for backpacker travel
• Relationships between work and leisure
• Issues of gender, race, ethnicity and class
• Issues of food and drink
• Emotional geographies
• Sub-cultural fashions in backpacking
• community contact and host-guest relationships
• Policy and planning dilemmas
• The return home and the influence on traveller's life course
• Change of backpacker phenomenon over time
• Alternative methodologies

For more info and registration...

ATLAS Backpacker Research Group Meeting - Call for Papers

Backpacker Mobilities? will be an ATLAS conference on backpacker tourism to be held 26-28th March 2008 at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India.

Potential themes include:

• The rituals of preparation for backpacker travel
• Relationships between work and leisure
• Issues of gender, race, ethnicity and class
• Issues of food and drink
• Emotional geographies
• Sub-cultural fashions in backpacking
• Community contact and host-guest relationships
• Engagement and negotiation of risk(s)
• Backpacker moorings and migrations
• Impacts on the mobility of others
• Engagement with new and old technologies
• Policy and planning dilemmas
• The return home and the influence on traveller’s lifecourse
• Change of backpacker phenomenon over time
• Geographic diversity of destinations and/or backpacker contexts
• Alternative methodologies in backpacker research
  
  For more info, select 'ATLAS Backpacker Research Group Meeting' from the ATLAS homepage...