Beijing 2016 Congress Sessions Organized by the IGU Tourism Commission
1 Tourism and Empowerment Issues in Traditional Communities
Alan Lew - [email protected]
Tourism development in rural and other traditional communities often presents a clash of cultural values between external globalization forces and internal local indigenous cultures. The financial resources of outside forces can overwhelm traditional societies, resulting in a loss of local empowerment and a loss of traditional livelihoods and cultural ways. On the other hand, some traditional communities are able to maintain their indigenous values and ways of life, while still developing a tourism economy. The power relationships between external tourism commodification interests and internal indigenous value interests define how tourism will develop and whether a place will become a placeless and soul-less tourist attraction or a living cultural entity. This session explores the power struggles between globalization and localization within the context of rural and other traditional communities.
2 Tourism and Violence
Anne-Marie d’Hautserre - [email protected]
Tourism is depicted as an activity that requires a feeling of security. The absence of safety is said to deter visits because it reduces the attractivity of destinations. Yet, when studied critically, tourism, as a form of global capitalism, is actually embroiled in violence. Some of this violence is linked to issues of power, ownership and policies. There remains significant scope for geographical research to interrogate critically the range of relations and spaces where this violence occurs. This session is calling for papers that uncover the various modes and degrees of violence embedded in tourism such as, but not limited to:
3 Tourism, Heritage and Globalization
Maria Gravari-Barbas - [email protected]
The relationship between heritage and tourism has been mainly analysed as a « defensive » one. Even if the economic contribution of tourism is considered necessary to insure the conservation of heritage sites and objects, tourism is suspected to be invasive, destructive and dangerous for the site’s “authenticity”. More recent works stress however the fact that tourism is not an “a posteriori phenomenon” which occurs once the heritagization process is already completed, but that it interferes, a priori, with heritagization. Tourism starts to be fully understood not as a heritage consumption phenomenon, but as a heritage production factor. These approaches reinterpret the heritage-tourism relationship and put a light not only on the role that tourism has played historically, (through the production of major tourism icons in the 19th and 20th c.) but also on the role it plays today in the context of globalization and of generalised mobilities. Though the dominant discourse of major heritage players such as UNESCO stresses the importance of local communities, heritage production (as a social and cultural phenomenon) does increasingly occurs through the action, initiative or prescription of transnational and/or globalised fluxes: transnational (tourism) elites, globalized capital, international ONGs, etc.
This session aims at understanding the processes thought which tourism (seen as a system of places, stakeholders/actors, practices and imaginaries) becomes today a major “heritage producing machine”. The session welcomes both theoretical works and case studies on the following themes (the list is not exhaustive):
4 Urban Tourism and Tourism Urbanization
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
In a globalized world even urban areas have become major tourism destinations. This implies that urban areas are transformed by tourism or in order to attract tourists. Urban property markets, service supplies and city images are only some of the dimensions that are affected by these transformations. This session addresses processes of urban change related to tourism development. It highlights the impacts of urban tourism and scrutinizes planning for tourism, also in relation to interests of other stakeholders and not least the urban citizens. The session welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions. The commission would welcome papers in this broad area. These may include but are not limited to those focusing on:
5 Lifestyle Mobility and the Local Community
Honggang Xu - [email protected]
Yin Zhao
Within the mobility spectrum, traditional tourists, migrants and retired residential tourists have received substantial research interests. The other mobility patterns on the other hand are less researched. With the improvement of transportation and arrival of the mobility culture, the less researched mobility patterns are rising and have brought tremendous pressures on the place of origin and destination. Since the host-guest relationship is different from those tourists and migrants, this session attempts to address this issue further and raise the interests of more scholars. This session will discuss but not limited to the following issues: the new mobility patterns, the topology of tourists/migrants within the spectrum, the integration with the local communities governance and ect.
6 Tourism and Carbon Emissions
Jin-he Zhang - [email protected]
7 Tourism Planning and Destination Sustainability
Jigang Bao - [email protected]
Bihu Wu - [email protected]
The session would like to focus but not limited on the following topics:
8 Tourism, Environmental Change and Sustainability
Jarkko Saarinen - [email protected]
Edward Huijbens [email protected]
Tourism and the environment have complex relationships that can vary from symbiosis to antagonistic relations. Both tourism and environment are also in a constant change necessitating a problematizing of our relationship with our surroundings in times of globalisation and global environmental change. There is a long tradition to study the impacts of tourism development (i.e. change) to environment in geography. During the past two decades global environmental change has emerged as a major topic in tourism development and management discussions, re-ordering the empirical and conceptual focus of tourism research. Global environmental change affects the basis of the tourism system through numerous sets of ecological, social, cultural, economic and political transformations; but tourism has also become a major contributor to that change. All this has called for more sustainable and responsible ways to organize tourism-environment relations in the era of Anthropocene.
This session aims to discuss environmental change and its impacts on tourism, and the role of tourism in (global-local) environmental change. Ranging from “safe operating spaces” for tourism within defined planetary boundaries and potential environmental tipping points, to destination specific negotiations of “ecosystems services”, this session calls for papers that detail the role of tourism at these scales. These scalar considerations represent the way new scientific understanding alter humanity’s relationship to the past, present and future. Global sustainability can be brought to the fore at the grandest of scales where planetary boundaries and limits need to be framed in terms of intergenerational responsibilities, inequality and uncertainty. The focus of the session is thus not only on the ecological or physical environmental changes being wrought through tourism but also social, cultural, economic and political changes and their interrelationships with tourism mobilities, practices and development. The turn to the global/local scalar considerations in tourism development will find its truth in its usefulness in negotiating tourism futures. Future considerations open up questions of how to understand hospitality ethics. The uses of resources, their origin and co-option into value creation in tourism and the ethical decisions made by individuals in terms of offering or engaging in specific tourism activities need to be addressed. The challenges of more sustainable and responsible modes of tourism development are not only practical but involve ethical issues, thus, in sum the session will explore the connections among tourism, environment , change and ethics.
9 Nature-based Tourism in Asia
Carolin Funck - [email protected]
Takushi Isono
Asia is experiencing strong growth in tourism as well as economical. Growth in both areas will provide chances for tourism development in peripheral regions while at the same time pose additional risks and strain on natural resources and protected areas. This session aims to examine challenges for the management of natural resources and nature based tourism.
Topics could include:
10 Publishing Tourism Geographies
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
(Discussion Panel) This panel session has been initiated by discussions on scientific publishing during the IGC in Cologne 2012. It addresses issues related to publishing geographical tourism research in academic journals and book series. The invited panelists will discuss the politics of publishing, but also standards to be met when submitting a scientific paper to a peer-reviewed journal. The panel session targets early career scientist mainly, but welcomes also senior researchers interested in discussing publishing issues in the field of tourism geographies. This session is organized as a panel session only invited contributions will be accepted. Please contact the organizers with a proposal to request to be part of this panel. Do not submit an abstract to the conference website without being accepted by the session organizers first.
11 Resilience Approaches to Managing Change in Tourism Places
Alan Lew - [email protected]
Social and environmental changes are normal processes that take place over time. However, how change takes place and what rate it happens it not always predictable. Many communities and enterprises struggle to adjust to changes in their development situation. For those in a tourism context, potential negative changes include a decline in infrastructure and facilities, a transition in market (customer) demands and interests, local economic transformation by outside financial investments, a loss of natural and cultural resources that attracted tourists due to poor development decisions, changing climatic conditions, and the impacts of natural disasters. The ultimate result of all of these is a decline in tourist arrivals. This session investigates how tourism communities plan for and respond to these changes to create a more secure quality of life for their residents.
12 “Tourism Geographies” in Asia: Contrasting issues, approaches and traditions
Alan Lew - [email protected]
Guosheng Han - [email protected]
(Discussion Panel) Tourism education has strong foundations through the Asia-Pacific region. That foundation, however, varies considerably among different countries in Asia, in terms of where tourism is situated in universities, what the focus on tourism research is, how tourism research relates to government policy and consultancy projects, and how tourism country-based education relates to the international tourism academy. This session explores these differences, with a short presentation by scholars from different countries, followed by a general discussion. If suitable, a summary of the session will be published in the journal Tourism Geographies. This session is organized as a panel session only invited contributions will be accepted. Please contact the organizers with a proposal to request to be part of this panel. Do not submit an abstract to the conference website without being accepted by the session organizers first.
13 Tourism and Economic Geography
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
Tourism plays an important role for the development of the economy and labor markets both in rural and urban areas. Within tourism research, however, economic dimensions have recently received limited attention and they are often examined independently of and parallel to research approaches known from economic geography. The latter have recently used theories and concepts such as innovation systems, relational economic geographies, path dependence, learning regions and clusters for understanding and explanation of regional economic development. However, these approaches have not been applied frequently tourism geography. The aim of this session is therefore to bring together both areas of research and to encourage on the one hand a theoretical discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches within tourism research, on the other hand, the empirical examination of the validity of these approaches in the tourism sector. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are welcomed.
14 Tourism and Environment
Prof Sanette Ferreira - [email protected]
Topic: Challenges in the 21st century for natural areas tourism .Tourism is seen to provide an incentive to conserve natural areas. Tourists can bring economic benefits to a region and protected and natural areas can generate significant income on a sustainable basis, resulting in additional investment by governments for environmental management and conservation. For some tourists the natural environment provides the primary objective for their travel to a specific destination.
Nature tourism has increased from about 2% of all tourism in the late 1980s to about 20% today (Buckley, 2009). With this increase nature tourism is developing in a form of ‘mass tourism’. Weaver (2012) attributes this change to natural resource scarcity, the development of green technology, and awareness of climate change. Some of the highly valued ecosystems for tourism and leisure activities are fragile in nature and have to be managed carefully to ensure their availability for the future generations to come. Island ecosystems (seabird breeding islands, island wildlife), coral reef ecosystems, tropical rainforests and African Savannah are drawing large numbers of tourists resulting in direct and indirect environmental impacts. The dramatic increase in visitor numbers to natural areas makes visitor monitoring and creative management of visitors of paramount importance. Some of the visitor’s impacts must also be seen in the context of wider environmental issues and cumulative impacts from the areas adjacent to protected areas (landscape matrix, river systems in the matrix and the agricultural matrix); Urban encroachment; the need for land; inadequate security for protected areas; etc.
This session invites scholars working and researching in protected areas to present papers on:
15 ICT and Modern Technology in Tourism
Jie Zhang - [email protected]
Zi Lu - [email protected]
Modern tourism is highly dependent on the use of technology and not least ICT. Technology is used by tourists before, during and after the trip, and even the supply side of the tourism industry is utilizing technology for providing information to the tourists, but also for analyzing spatial information of tourism mobility and demand. Moreover, modern mobile technologies such as google glasses are maybe revolutininzng tourism even more. This session invites therefore papers that address the interrelationship of tourism and ICT and other modern mobilities.
This session covers fields as follows:
16 Tourism and Mobility
Tim Coles - [email protected]
Tourism and mobility have been a long-standing concern for a wide range of scholars, including geographers. However, this subject area is marked by a paradox: the more the academic record grows, the more we still have to understand. Patterns of tourism and the connections between tourism and other forms of mobility are constantly evolving in the process reflecting new conditions and contexts at a range of spatial scales. This means that, in addition to a number of exciting new developments for instance around technology, transport and tourism, established themes like second home ownership and cross-border mobility also need constant revisiting and updating. The commission would welcome offers of papers in this broad area on both traditional and innovative topics.
These may include but are not limited to those focusing on:
17 Is Tourism a Help or Hindrance to Global Awareness and Understanding?
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
Alan Lew - [email protected]
(Discussion Panel) This panel session is organized to highlight the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by addressing the question in what ways tourism is an asset or a hindrance for global understanding. Obviously the growth of tourism creates various types of impacts on different geographical scales. The aim of this session is thus to address some of these issues and to discuss the potential of tourism as an agent of change. This session is organized as a panel session only invited contributions will be accepted. Please contact the organizers with a proposal to request to be part of this panel. Do not submit an abstract to the conference website without being accepted by the session organizers first.
Alan Lew - [email protected]
Tourism development in rural and other traditional communities often presents a clash of cultural values between external globalization forces and internal local indigenous cultures. The financial resources of outside forces can overwhelm traditional societies, resulting in a loss of local empowerment and a loss of traditional livelihoods and cultural ways. On the other hand, some traditional communities are able to maintain their indigenous values and ways of life, while still developing a tourism economy. The power relationships between external tourism commodification interests and internal indigenous value interests define how tourism will develop and whether a place will become a placeless and soul-less tourist attraction or a living cultural entity. This session explores the power struggles between globalization and localization within the context of rural and other traditional communities.
2 Tourism and Violence
Anne-Marie d’Hautserre - [email protected]
Tourism is depicted as an activity that requires a feeling of security. The absence of safety is said to deter visits because it reduces the attractivity of destinations. Yet, when studied critically, tourism, as a form of global capitalism, is actually embroiled in violence. Some of this violence is linked to issues of power, ownership and policies. There remains significant scope for geographical research to interrogate critically the range of relations and spaces where this violence occurs. This session is calling for papers that uncover the various modes and degrees of violence embedded in tourism such as, but not limited to:
- violent take over of land to create destinations (including for ecotourism)
- violent or oppressive practices imposed on 'hosts' to be more attractive to visitors
- violence linked to/in sex tourism, in its multiple forms
- violent forms of cultural tourism
- how/why violence is integral to tourism development (e.g. environmental degradation; forced development of infrastructure; invasion by visitors who insist on their right to mobility)
- natural catastrophes and tourism and how they are reported
- embodied violence (or risk of) in certain kinds of tourist performances (e.g. extreme adventure)
- biopiracy and/or misappropriation of Indigenous knowledges
- social displacement of locals by former tourists looking for cheaper retirement living
- violence of treating locals as objects rather than equal subjects
3 Tourism, Heritage and Globalization
Maria Gravari-Barbas - [email protected]
The relationship between heritage and tourism has been mainly analysed as a « defensive » one. Even if the economic contribution of tourism is considered necessary to insure the conservation of heritage sites and objects, tourism is suspected to be invasive, destructive and dangerous for the site’s “authenticity”. More recent works stress however the fact that tourism is not an “a posteriori phenomenon” which occurs once the heritagization process is already completed, but that it interferes, a priori, with heritagization. Tourism starts to be fully understood not as a heritage consumption phenomenon, but as a heritage production factor. These approaches reinterpret the heritage-tourism relationship and put a light not only on the role that tourism has played historically, (through the production of major tourism icons in the 19th and 20th c.) but also on the role it plays today in the context of globalization and of generalised mobilities. Though the dominant discourse of major heritage players such as UNESCO stresses the importance of local communities, heritage production (as a social and cultural phenomenon) does increasingly occurs through the action, initiative or prescription of transnational and/or globalised fluxes: transnational (tourism) elites, globalized capital, international ONGs, etc.
This session aims at understanding the processes thought which tourism (seen as a system of places, stakeholders/actors, practices and imaginaries) becomes today a major “heritage producing machine”. The session welcomes both theoretical works and case studies on the following themes (the list is not exhaustive):
- Transnational elites, tourism and heritage
- Role of ONGs in producing/diffusing a globalised heritage paradigm
- Post-colonial heritage and tourism
- Heritage restoration, recreation, re-enactments and international tourism
- Imaginaries of heritage and international tourism
- Social media, international tourism and heritage production
- Global heritagescapes and tourism
4 Urban Tourism and Tourism Urbanization
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
In a globalized world even urban areas have become major tourism destinations. This implies that urban areas are transformed by tourism or in order to attract tourists. Urban property markets, service supplies and city images are only some of the dimensions that are affected by these transformations. This session addresses processes of urban change related to tourism development. It highlights the impacts of urban tourism and scrutinizes planning for tourism, also in relation to interests of other stakeholders and not least the urban citizens. The session welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions. The commission would welcome papers in this broad area. These may include but are not limited to those focusing on:
- Spatial patterns of urban tourism
- Urban tourism supplies
- Tourism and urban property
- Tourism as a driver for urbanization
- Urban tourism labour markets
- Cities as destinations
- Tourism and urban re-imaging
- Tourism and urban gentrification
- Tourism and urban transportation
- Urban tourism districts
5 Lifestyle Mobility and the Local Community
Honggang Xu - [email protected]
Yin Zhao
Within the mobility spectrum, traditional tourists, migrants and retired residential tourists have received substantial research interests. The other mobility patterns on the other hand are less researched. With the improvement of transportation and arrival of the mobility culture, the less researched mobility patterns are rising and have brought tremendous pressures on the place of origin and destination. Since the host-guest relationship is different from those tourists and migrants, this session attempts to address this issue further and raise the interests of more scholars. This session will discuss but not limited to the following issues: the new mobility patterns, the topology of tourists/migrants within the spectrum, the integration with the local communities governance and ect.
6 Tourism and Carbon Emissions
Jin-he Zhang - [email protected]
7 Tourism Planning and Destination Sustainability
Jigang Bao - [email protected]
Bihu Wu - [email protected]
The session would like to focus but not limited on the following topics:
- Tourism planning evolution in China
- Tourism planning and destination sustainability
- Role of community in tourism planning
- China new norm and tourism planning
- Regional development and tourism planning
- Tourism planning and destination management
8 Tourism, Environmental Change and Sustainability
Jarkko Saarinen - [email protected]
Edward Huijbens [email protected]
Tourism and the environment have complex relationships that can vary from symbiosis to antagonistic relations. Both tourism and environment are also in a constant change necessitating a problematizing of our relationship with our surroundings in times of globalisation and global environmental change. There is a long tradition to study the impacts of tourism development (i.e. change) to environment in geography. During the past two decades global environmental change has emerged as a major topic in tourism development and management discussions, re-ordering the empirical and conceptual focus of tourism research. Global environmental change affects the basis of the tourism system through numerous sets of ecological, social, cultural, economic and political transformations; but tourism has also become a major contributor to that change. All this has called for more sustainable and responsible ways to organize tourism-environment relations in the era of Anthropocene.
This session aims to discuss environmental change and its impacts on tourism, and the role of tourism in (global-local) environmental change. Ranging from “safe operating spaces” for tourism within defined planetary boundaries and potential environmental tipping points, to destination specific negotiations of “ecosystems services”, this session calls for papers that detail the role of tourism at these scales. These scalar considerations represent the way new scientific understanding alter humanity’s relationship to the past, present and future. Global sustainability can be brought to the fore at the grandest of scales where planetary boundaries and limits need to be framed in terms of intergenerational responsibilities, inequality and uncertainty. The focus of the session is thus not only on the ecological or physical environmental changes being wrought through tourism but also social, cultural, economic and political changes and their interrelationships with tourism mobilities, practices and development. The turn to the global/local scalar considerations in tourism development will find its truth in its usefulness in negotiating tourism futures. Future considerations open up questions of how to understand hospitality ethics. The uses of resources, their origin and co-option into value creation in tourism and the ethical decisions made by individuals in terms of offering or engaging in specific tourism activities need to be addressed. The challenges of more sustainable and responsible modes of tourism development are not only practical but involve ethical issues, thus, in sum the session will explore the connections among tourism, environment , change and ethics.
9 Nature-based Tourism in Asia
Carolin Funck - [email protected]
Takushi Isono
Asia is experiencing strong growth in tourism as well as economical. Growth in both areas will provide chances for tourism development in peripheral regions while at the same time pose additional risks and strain on natural resources and protected areas. This session aims to examine challenges for the management of natural resources and nature based tourism.
Topics could include:
- Management of national parks, geoparks and other protected areas
- New trends in nature-based tourism
- Guide and interpretation in nature-based tourism
- Ecotourism development
- Community based tourism in and around protected areas
10 Publishing Tourism Geographies
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
(Discussion Panel) This panel session has been initiated by discussions on scientific publishing during the IGC in Cologne 2012. It addresses issues related to publishing geographical tourism research in academic journals and book series. The invited panelists will discuss the politics of publishing, but also standards to be met when submitting a scientific paper to a peer-reviewed journal. The panel session targets early career scientist mainly, but welcomes also senior researchers interested in discussing publishing issues in the field of tourism geographies. This session is organized as a panel session only invited contributions will be accepted. Please contact the organizers with a proposal to request to be part of this panel. Do not submit an abstract to the conference website without being accepted by the session organizers first.
11 Resilience Approaches to Managing Change in Tourism Places
Alan Lew - [email protected]
Social and environmental changes are normal processes that take place over time. However, how change takes place and what rate it happens it not always predictable. Many communities and enterprises struggle to adjust to changes in their development situation. For those in a tourism context, potential negative changes include a decline in infrastructure and facilities, a transition in market (customer) demands and interests, local economic transformation by outside financial investments, a loss of natural and cultural resources that attracted tourists due to poor development decisions, changing climatic conditions, and the impacts of natural disasters. The ultimate result of all of these is a decline in tourist arrivals. This session investigates how tourism communities plan for and respond to these changes to create a more secure quality of life for their residents.
12 “Tourism Geographies” in Asia: Contrasting issues, approaches and traditions
Alan Lew - [email protected]
Guosheng Han - [email protected]
(Discussion Panel) Tourism education has strong foundations through the Asia-Pacific region. That foundation, however, varies considerably among different countries in Asia, in terms of where tourism is situated in universities, what the focus on tourism research is, how tourism research relates to government policy and consultancy projects, and how tourism country-based education relates to the international tourism academy. This session explores these differences, with a short presentation by scholars from different countries, followed by a general discussion. If suitable, a summary of the session will be published in the journal Tourism Geographies. This session is organized as a panel session only invited contributions will be accepted. Please contact the organizers with a proposal to request to be part of this panel. Do not submit an abstract to the conference website without being accepted by the session organizers first.
13 Tourism and Economic Geography
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
Tourism plays an important role for the development of the economy and labor markets both in rural and urban areas. Within tourism research, however, economic dimensions have recently received limited attention and they are often examined independently of and parallel to research approaches known from economic geography. The latter have recently used theories and concepts such as innovation systems, relational economic geographies, path dependence, learning regions and clusters for understanding and explanation of regional economic development. However, these approaches have not been applied frequently tourism geography. The aim of this session is therefore to bring together both areas of research and to encourage on the one hand a theoretical discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches within tourism research, on the other hand, the empirical examination of the validity of these approaches in the tourism sector. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are welcomed.
14 Tourism and Environment
Prof Sanette Ferreira - [email protected]
Topic: Challenges in the 21st century for natural areas tourism .Tourism is seen to provide an incentive to conserve natural areas. Tourists can bring economic benefits to a region and protected and natural areas can generate significant income on a sustainable basis, resulting in additional investment by governments for environmental management and conservation. For some tourists the natural environment provides the primary objective for their travel to a specific destination.
Nature tourism has increased from about 2% of all tourism in the late 1980s to about 20% today (Buckley, 2009). With this increase nature tourism is developing in a form of ‘mass tourism’. Weaver (2012) attributes this change to natural resource scarcity, the development of green technology, and awareness of climate change. Some of the highly valued ecosystems for tourism and leisure activities are fragile in nature and have to be managed carefully to ensure their availability for the future generations to come. Island ecosystems (seabird breeding islands, island wildlife), coral reef ecosystems, tropical rainforests and African Savannah are drawing large numbers of tourists resulting in direct and indirect environmental impacts. The dramatic increase in visitor numbers to natural areas makes visitor monitoring and creative management of visitors of paramount importance. Some of the visitor’s impacts must also be seen in the context of wider environmental issues and cumulative impacts from the areas adjacent to protected areas (landscape matrix, river systems in the matrix and the agricultural matrix); Urban encroachment; the need for land; inadequate security for protected areas; etc.
This session invites scholars working and researching in protected areas to present papers on:
- Managing mass tourism at coral reefs (or any other sensitive ecosystem)
- Wider environmental issues threatening a specific national park or protected area
- Creative visitor planning in crowded situations in national parks
- Conserving and protecting “natural area experiences”
- Monitoring visitors in natural areas
- Securing wildlife and people in national parks
- Fortressing against urban encroachment in protected areas
15 ICT and Modern Technology in Tourism
Jie Zhang - [email protected]
Zi Lu - [email protected]
Modern tourism is highly dependent on the use of technology and not least ICT. Technology is used by tourists before, during and after the trip, and even the supply side of the tourism industry is utilizing technology for providing information to the tourists, but also for analyzing spatial information of tourism mobility and demand. Moreover, modern mobile technologies such as google glasses are maybe revolutininzng tourism even more. This session invites therefore papers that address the interrelationship of tourism and ICT and other modern mobilities.
This session covers fields as follows:
- ICT and regional tourism
- GIS and tourism analysis
- Mobil internet and tourism operation
- Big data and tourism destination management
- Big data and tourism product distribution
- Other modern technologies in regional tourism
16 Tourism and Mobility
Tim Coles - [email protected]
Tourism and mobility have been a long-standing concern for a wide range of scholars, including geographers. However, this subject area is marked by a paradox: the more the academic record grows, the more we still have to understand. Patterns of tourism and the connections between tourism and other forms of mobility are constantly evolving in the process reflecting new conditions and contexts at a range of spatial scales. This means that, in addition to a number of exciting new developments for instance around technology, transport and tourism, established themes like second home ownership and cross-border mobility also need constant revisiting and updating. The commission would welcome offers of papers in this broad area on both traditional and innovative topics.
These may include but are not limited to those focusing on:
- Critical issues in contemporary tourism mobilities
- Relative freedom to travel, impediments to mobility, and tourism immobilities.
- Cross-border mobilities and border crossings.
- The effects of visas, regulation and governance on travel, tourism and mobility
- Business tourism and mobilities.
- Domestic inter-regional and intra-regional patterns of tourism mobilities.
- Tourism mobilities across the age range or among different demographic segments
- Tourism and new modes of transportation
- Tourism, transport systems and infrastructure
- Smart tourism and the role of social media in mediating travel, tourism and mobility
17 Is Tourism a Help or Hindrance to Global Awareness and Understanding?
Dieter K. Müller - [email protected]
Alan Lew - [email protected]
(Discussion Panel) This panel session is organized to highlight the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by addressing the question in what ways tourism is an asset or a hindrance for global understanding. Obviously the growth of tourism creates various types of impacts on different geographical scales. The aim of this session is thus to address some of these issues and to discuss the potential of tourism as an agent of change. This session is organized as a panel session only invited contributions will be accepted. Please contact the organizers with a proposal to request to be part of this panel. Do not submit an abstract to the conference website without being accepted by the session organizers first.