Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
of the International Geographical Union

Pre-Congress Symposium in Nanjing & Suzhou, China
15-18 August 2016
 
Geography and Planning: Creating a New Tourism Landscape

This symposium is held prior to the full IGU Congress in Beijing, China.
​In addition to this event, the IGU Tourism Commission will also sponsor paper sessions at the IGU Congress in Beijing.
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Conference attendees at the new Porcelain Pagoda, Nanjing, China, 17 August 2016
Incorporating
  • The 8th China Tourism Conference of the Tourism Commission of the China Geographical Society
  • The 9th Tourism Outlook Conference  of the University of Technology MARA, Malaysia

Conference Organizers & Sponsors
  • Geographical Society of China, Commission on Tourism Geography
  • Nanjing University, Institute for Tourism Research
  • Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam , Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Malaysia
  • Northern Arizona University, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, USA
  • International Geographical Union, Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
  • Tourism Geographies journal, Routledge, UK
The Objectives of this conference are to provide a platform for tourism students and educators, government agency employees, hospitality and tourism industry practitioners, public and private land managers, community development workers, and others interested in these issues to share, exchange and debate ideas and knowledge related to our understanding and management of tourism development and conservation. Through this, the conference aims to identify practical solutions, chart new directions, and create opportunities for sustainable tourism development in these special environments. Therefore, we encourage the submission of papers that explore ‘missing thinking’ about tourism geography and planning in the following (but not limited to) areas: 
  • The tourism landscape as a storytelling
  • Challenges and best practices of tourism planning
  • Sustainable tourism policy and planning
  • Governance in urban tourism destinations
  • Theme park: the landscape of dreamlands and imagined worlds
  • Globalization, culture landscape and tourism 
  • Big data and geographical analytics in tourism geography
  • Methodological issues in tourism geography and planning
  • Future trends in tourism geography and planning
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