The full programme is now available on the IGC Dublin website for our 24 tourism geographies-related thematic sessions at the 35th IGC Dublin, 24th-30th August 2024
The IGU Tourism Commission is delighted to sponsor 24 paper sessions at the 35th International Geographical Congress (IGC) which will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 24th-30th August 2024. Following the incredible participation of the IGU Tourism Commission in the previous IGC Paris 2022 (with 19 paper sessions!) we hope to repeat the experience in Dublin.
Don't miss these IGU Tourism Commission-sponsored events during the 35th IGC in Dublin:
Sunday 25th August 18:00-19:00 (Theatre)
IGU Tourism Commission / Tourism Geographies Journal Special Lecture 2024:
A conversation between renowned tourism geographers Dieter K. Müller (Umeå University) and Mary Mostafanezhad (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) on the future of the field of tourism geographies. (Chair: Julie Wilson).
Monday, 26th August 16:00-17:30 (Business School Q218)
Workshop / Panel: Tourism, Leisure and Global Change: Revisiting, Reframing and Reaffirming Tourism Geographies: Critical Post-Disciplinary Perspectives
(Chairs: Joseph M Cheer and Mary Mostafanezhad)
Tuesday 27th August 12:00-14:00 (Business School QG21)
Commission Business Meeting: IGU Commission C.17 Geographies of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
Come along to find out more about our Commission's activities and hear the announcement about our new Steering Committee, 2024-2028!
(date, time and venue tbc - likely Monday 26th or Tuesday 27th August at around 6pm)
IGU Tourism Commission / Tourism Geographies Journal social meet-up
IGU Tourism Commission Paper sessions
The full list and descriptions of 35th IGC Dublin sessions sponsored by the IGU Tourism Commission is available HERE but here is a summary of all 24 sessions:
Sessions from other IGU Commissions with a tourism focus:
For more information on the IGC 2024 Dublin:
Up to date information is available on the various pages of the ICG Dublin 2024 website - available in both English and French - including confirmed accommodation rates and on-campus accommodation options.
The IGC Dublin website is updated regularly but for the most up to date information and important reminders, please sign up to the conference
newsletter via this page and follow the @igc2024dub twitter account. You will also find details on our IGU Tourism Commission social media handles - Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
For academic/programme queries, please contact [email protected]
For registration and administrative enquiries, don’t hesitate to contact the conference partners at [email protected].
Please note that the IGU Tourism Commission is also organising our pre-meeting in beautiful Galway right before the IGC Dublin, from 22nd to 24th August 2024. More information is available on this page.
The IGU Tourism Commission is delighted to sponsor 24 paper sessions at the 35th International Geographical Congress (IGC) which will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 24th-30th August 2024. Following the incredible participation of the IGU Tourism Commission in the previous IGC Paris 2022 (with 19 paper sessions!) we hope to repeat the experience in Dublin.
Don't miss these IGU Tourism Commission-sponsored events during the 35th IGC in Dublin:
Sunday 25th August 18:00-19:00 (Theatre)
IGU Tourism Commission / Tourism Geographies Journal Special Lecture 2024:
A conversation between renowned tourism geographers Dieter K. Müller (Umeå University) and Mary Mostafanezhad (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) on the future of the field of tourism geographies. (Chair: Julie Wilson).
Monday, 26th August 16:00-17:30 (Business School Q218)
Workshop / Panel: Tourism, Leisure and Global Change: Revisiting, Reframing and Reaffirming Tourism Geographies: Critical Post-Disciplinary Perspectives
(Chairs: Joseph M Cheer and Mary Mostafanezhad)
Tuesday 27th August 12:00-14:00 (Business School QG21)
Commission Business Meeting: IGU Commission C.17 Geographies of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
Come along to find out more about our Commission's activities and hear the announcement about our new Steering Committee, 2024-2028!
(date, time and venue tbc - likely Monday 26th or Tuesday 27th August at around 6pm)
IGU Tourism Commission / Tourism Geographies Journal social meet-up
IGU Tourism Commission Paper sessions
The full list and descriptions of 35th IGC Dublin sessions sponsored by the IGU Tourism Commission is available HERE but here is a summary of all 24 sessions:
- Beyond development: Community empowerment, social justice, and the local in tourism (Chairs: Bailey Ashton Adie, Alberto Amore)
- Blue-Green restoration: Tourism and leisure in river cities (Chairs: Joseph M Cheer, Philip Hayward, Arianne Reis)
- Bridging nature-based tourism and conservation: How to tackle the over-tourism resurgence? (Chairs: Rie Usui, Thomas Jones)
- Changing skyscapes, place and space (Chairs: Georgia MacMillan, Therese Conway, Marie Mahon)
- Critical geographies of festivals and events (Chairs: Bernadette Quinn, Julie Wilson, Alba Colombo, Andrew Smith)
- Critical geographies of tourism (Chairs: Ivan Murray, Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blázquez-Salom)
- Feminist tourism geographies through emergent histories (Chairs: Maartje Roelofsen, Chih-Chen Trista Lin)
- Geographies and mobilities of hiking in the post-pandemic Anthropocene (Chairs: Kelsey Johansen, Tim Harms, Markus Pillmayer, Marius Mayer, Christian Eilzer)
- Geographies of tourism and wildlife conservation in the Anthropocene (Chairs: Qingming Cui, Honggang Xu)
- Island tourism transformations: Resilient islands and revitalized communities (Chairs: Carolin Funck, Kyungjae Jang, Qu Meng, Rie Usui)
- Metagovernance, resilience and tourism in the Age of the Anthropocene: beyond business and policies as usual (Chairs: Alberto Amore, Jarkko Saarinen)
- More-than-human agencies in sustainable rural tourism (Chairs: Honggang Xu, Jie Li)
- Neoliberalism and tourism: critical perspectives (Chairs: Rita Cruz, Carolina Todesco)
- On the edge of culture and tourism: Exploring the dynamics of cultural routes and heritage trails (Chairs: Alessia Mariotti, Dimitri Ioannides, Maja Turnsek, Maria Laura Gasparini)
- Post-pandemic perspectives on second homes and multilocal living (Chairs: Dieter K. Müller, Andreas Back, Gijsbert Hoogendoorn)
- Prospects and limits of policy, governance, and individual practices for sustainability transformations and carbon neutrality in tourism (Chairs: Dorothee Bohn, Pamela Bachmann-Vargas, O. Cenk Demiroglu)
- Re-envisioning the mobilities of in/hospitable work (Chairs: Tara Duncan, David Scott, Susanna Heldt Cassel, Maria Thulemark)
- Re-negotiating leisure, events, and tourism spaces in the age of the Anthropocene (Chairs: Alberto Amore, Solène Prince, Valeria Pecorelli, Barbara Grabher)
- Resistance against development projects in retrospective: seeking for emancipatory geographies (Chairs: Nora Müller, Alejandro Armas-Díaz, Angela Hof)
- Revisiting, reframing and reaffirming Tourism Geographies: Critical post-disciplinary perspectives (Chairs: Joseph M. Cheer, Mary Mostafanezhad)
- Social innovation in indigenous tourism development. Examining the challenges and strategies to support sustainable livelihoods in indigenous tourism (Chair: Sonya Graci)
- Tourism geographies and the revitalisation of the rural periphery (Chair: Joseph M. Cheer)
- Tourism geographies looking forward: a critical review of (no)changes in times of uncertainty (Chairs: Josep A. Ivars-Baidal, Anna Torres-Delgado, Carmen Hidalgo-Giralt, Francisco Femenia-Serra)
- Tourism, work and migration interfaces in the digital world (Chairs: Malin Zillinger, Jan Henrik Nilsson)
Sessions from other IGU Commissions with a tourism focus:
- A new model of governance for accessibility and cultural tourism: issues, sectors and facilities
- Post-pandemic tourism mobilities: Displaying emerging and resurging trends
- Embracing new lifestyles in a digital world: Remote work and nomadism
For more information on the IGC 2024 Dublin:
Up to date information is available on the various pages of the ICG Dublin 2024 website - available in both English and French - including confirmed accommodation rates and on-campus accommodation options.
The IGC Dublin website is updated regularly but for the most up to date information and important reminders, please sign up to the conference
newsletter via this page and follow the @igc2024dub twitter account. You will also find details on our IGU Tourism Commission social media handles - Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
For academic/programme queries, please contact [email protected]
For registration and administrative enquiries, don’t hesitate to contact the conference partners at [email protected].
Please note that the IGU Tourism Commission is also organising our pre-meeting in beautiful Galway right before the IGC Dublin, from 22nd to 24th August 2024. More information is available on this page.
