PARTNER EVENTS
The IGU Tourism Commission is proud to be co-sponsoring this session together with the IGU Transport Geography Commission on ‘Transport, tourism and climate change: The tyranny of distance travelled’ at the 9th EUGEO Congress to be held in Barcelona, Spain from 4th-7th Sept 2023.
Call:
The IPCC (2022) estimates that the transport sector accounted for 15% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) direct emissions in 2019. The contribution of this sector to climate is progressively increasing in absolute terms due to growing traffic (more and longer trips), the predominance of the least-efficient transport modes (cars, vans, trucks and planes), as well as the slow pace of innovation.
Whilst the spotlight is generally on efficiency (e.g., emissions per passenger/kilometre), distance is a crucial geographical concept at the core of transport geography and by extension, it is a major factor influencing GHG emissions and climate footprint. All other things being equal, distance travelled directly affects energy consumption. However, during the last few years, transport environmental policy has been primarily centred on short-distance travel and urban/regional mobilities. This has significantly improved people’s lives and local air quality, but has not been enough to curb the growing GHG emissions.
Considering the context above, this special session explores the relationships among three aspects: transport, distance and climate change. All scales (from urban areas to the global), transport modes, passenger motivations (including tourism mobilities and goods may be considered for the session.
Potential topics include:
• Is there a linear relationship between distance travelled and climate footprint?
• Cycling and flying - personal responsibilities and contradictions inherent in balancing the climate consequences of transport mode choice for daily mobilities and leisure/tourism-based travel.
• Tourism as a driver of long-haul flight emissions.
• Replacement of short-haul flights with rail services as a possible means to reduce aviation’s contribution to climate change - can high-speed rail contribute to making aviation ‘greener’?
• Current and future feasible alternatives to long-haul travel.
• Likelihood of behavioural change in relation to long-haul travel - is price the only filter?
• The environmental (in)efficiency of airport charges and specific aviation taxes against distance flown.
• The relationship between social class, distance travelled and GHG emissions.
• Buying local or buying global? The climate impact of global e-commerce platforms.
Language: The session will be run in English only (both slides and presentation).
Abstract submission:
• Please proceed through https://www.eugeobcn23.eu/ by the 31st of March 2023 (Barcelona time).
• Don't forget to select the appropriate session (#1145)
Call:
The IPCC (2022) estimates that the transport sector accounted for 15% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) direct emissions in 2019. The contribution of this sector to climate is progressively increasing in absolute terms due to growing traffic (more and longer trips), the predominance of the least-efficient transport modes (cars, vans, trucks and planes), as well as the slow pace of innovation.
Whilst the spotlight is generally on efficiency (e.g., emissions per passenger/kilometre), distance is a crucial geographical concept at the core of transport geography and by extension, it is a major factor influencing GHG emissions and climate footprint. All other things being equal, distance travelled directly affects energy consumption. However, during the last few years, transport environmental policy has been primarily centred on short-distance travel and urban/regional mobilities. This has significantly improved people’s lives and local air quality, but has not been enough to curb the growing GHG emissions.
Considering the context above, this special session explores the relationships among three aspects: transport, distance and climate change. All scales (from urban areas to the global), transport modes, passenger motivations (including tourism mobilities and goods may be considered for the session.
Potential topics include:
• Is there a linear relationship between distance travelled and climate footprint?
• Cycling and flying - personal responsibilities and contradictions inherent in balancing the climate consequences of transport mode choice for daily mobilities and leisure/tourism-based travel.
• Tourism as a driver of long-haul flight emissions.
• Replacement of short-haul flights with rail services as a possible means to reduce aviation’s contribution to climate change - can high-speed rail contribute to making aviation ‘greener’?
• Current and future feasible alternatives to long-haul travel.
• Likelihood of behavioural change in relation to long-haul travel - is price the only filter?
• The environmental (in)efficiency of airport charges and specific aviation taxes against distance flown.
• The relationship between social class, distance travelled and GHG emissions.
• Buying local or buying global? The climate impact of global e-commerce platforms.
Language: The session will be run in English only (both slides and presentation).
Abstract submission:
• Please proceed through https://www.eugeobcn23.eu/ by the 31st of March 2023 (Barcelona time).
• Don't forget to select the appropriate session (#1145)
Call for Abstracts:
From Recovery to Resilience - Sustainable Pathways for Transforming Tourism
On behalf of Professor Jarkko Saarinen, we are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Conference ‘From Recovery to Resilience: Sustainable Pathways for Transforming Tourism’
The conference will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on September 11-12, 2023. The conference is co-organised by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and University of Oulu, Finland. Please send your abstracts before 15th May 2023.
For more information, please visit:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICFRRT2023
FLYER
The conference will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on September 11-12, 2023. The conference is co-organised by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and University of Oulu, Finland. Please send your abstracts before 15th May 2023.
For more information, please visit:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICFRRT2023
FLYER
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2023, Denver, Colorado
The IGU Tourism Commission is co-aponsoring a session at the AAG Annual Meeting in Denver, 23-27th March 2023: entitled Planning for urban resilience in the age of mobilities – the challenges ahead. The double session is chaired
More information is available at:
https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2023/solicitations/39/sessiongallery/6370
The IGU Tourism Commission is co-aponsoring a session at the AAG Annual Meeting in Denver, 23-27th March 2023: entitled Planning for urban resilience in the age of mobilities – the challenges ahead. The double session is chaired
More information is available at:
https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2023/solicitations/39/sessiongallery/6370
Webinar 'The body in tourism during pandemic times'
(in collaboration with the IGU Tourism Commission)
This webinar brings together theoretical, philosophical and empirical accounts of “the body” in tourism within the context of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. It addresses the biopolitical and corporeal dimensions of tourism and tourism mobility in light of changing border restrictions, and the imposition of new health, safety and (bio)security regimes. It also considers the embodied realities of those working to serve and accommodate tourists during the continuing health crisis and the implications of such a crisis on the already gendered, racialized, sexualised and classed divisions of tourism labour. We question whose bodies are kept safe and healthy for the purpose of travel, leisure and pleasure, at the expense of whom and what? But also, how has the pandemic reconfigured the embodied and spatial arrangements of tourism, hospitality and leisure at home, in the face of enduring lockdowns and requirements (for some) to work-from-home?
Panellists:
Kristina Zampoukos (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Elsa Soro (University of Turin, Italy / UOC, Spain)
Harng Luh Sin (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Pau Obrador (Northumbria University, UK)
Claudio Minca (University of Bologna, Italy)
Moderator: Maartje Roelofsen (UOC, Spain)
For more information please contact Maartje Roelofsen at mroelofsen (at) uoc.edu
This event is held from 14:00 - 16:00 CEST (UTC+2) on 21st October, 2021.
The webinar is sponsored by the International Geographical Union Tourism Commission (IGU) and is organised on behalf of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the NOUTUR research group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
Website and registration (free): https://symposium.uoc.edu/70507/detail/the-body-in-tourism-during-pandemic-times.html
Panellists:
Kristina Zampoukos (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Elsa Soro (University of Turin, Italy / UOC, Spain)
Harng Luh Sin (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Pau Obrador (Northumbria University, UK)
Claudio Minca (University of Bologna, Italy)
Moderator: Maartje Roelofsen (UOC, Spain)
For more information please contact Maartje Roelofsen at mroelofsen (at) uoc.edu
This event is held from 14:00 - 16:00 CEST (UTC+2) on 21st October, 2021.
The webinar is sponsored by the International Geographical Union Tourism Commission (IGU) and is organised on behalf of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the NOUTUR research group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
Website and registration (free): https://symposium.uoc.edu/70507/detail/the-body-in-tourism-during-pandemic-times.html
Nordic Geographers Meeting 2022
Session 41. Biopolitics and the geographies of tourism
Organizers: Maartje Roelofsen, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Joseph M. Cheer, Wakayama University and Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, University of Hong Kong
Chair: Maartje Roelofsen, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
This session wishes to bring together and explore scholarship on the geographies of tourism approached from a biopolitical perspective. Whilst the “management of bodies” has always been a constitutive part of tourism and its spatialities, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of entirely new states of exception and emergency regimes, geared towards tight restrictions and control over the mobility and embodied practices of millions of travellers and tourists. Debates in tourism over the “politics of life”, now more than ever, concern health and wellbeing at the level of the individual and population, not in the least because tourism has provided in many instances the socio-spatial conditions for the virus to spread. Yet, whilst tourism infrastructures such as hotels and cruise ships have functioned as vectors of the virus, they have also become essential spaces for quarantine and containment. Relatedly, this global crisis has provoked discussion on new forms of intervention imposed on bodily conduct and the associated practices of surveillance exercised by authorities and industry.
In this session, we invite both conceptual and empirical papers that incorporate biopolitics as a form of analytics. We encourage both a re-visitation of classical biopolitical approaches to tourism, as well as re-imaginations of biopolitics (conceptually and politically) that foreground forms of affirmative ethics. We also welcome papers that push beyond anthropocentric understandings of biopolitics and reflect on how the biopolitical operates on/with more-than-human lives in tourism. Examples could include the bio- and necropolitical dimensions of conservation-based tourism, or, the entanglements of pathogens, environments and tourists in biosecurity regimes. Moreover, what role will digital technologies play in the reconfiguration of relationships between hosts and guests and the related spaces and practices of hospitality? And more generally, in this session, we would like to think through how a biopolitical lens is useful to analyse practices and regimes of mobility, security, in/exclusion in the context of tourism. Particularly but not exclusively in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More information: https://www.ngm2022.fi/sessions/
Organizers: Maartje Roelofsen, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Joseph M. Cheer, Wakayama University and Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, University of Hong Kong
Chair: Maartje Roelofsen, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
This session wishes to bring together and explore scholarship on the geographies of tourism approached from a biopolitical perspective. Whilst the “management of bodies” has always been a constitutive part of tourism and its spatialities, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of entirely new states of exception and emergency regimes, geared towards tight restrictions and control over the mobility and embodied practices of millions of travellers and tourists. Debates in tourism over the “politics of life”, now more than ever, concern health and wellbeing at the level of the individual and population, not in the least because tourism has provided in many instances the socio-spatial conditions for the virus to spread. Yet, whilst tourism infrastructures such as hotels and cruise ships have functioned as vectors of the virus, they have also become essential spaces for quarantine and containment. Relatedly, this global crisis has provoked discussion on new forms of intervention imposed on bodily conduct and the associated practices of surveillance exercised by authorities and industry.
In this session, we invite both conceptual and empirical papers that incorporate biopolitics as a form of analytics. We encourage both a re-visitation of classical biopolitical approaches to tourism, as well as re-imaginations of biopolitics (conceptually and politically) that foreground forms of affirmative ethics. We also welcome papers that push beyond anthropocentric understandings of biopolitics and reflect on how the biopolitical operates on/with more-than-human lives in tourism. Examples could include the bio- and necropolitical dimensions of conservation-based tourism, or, the entanglements of pathogens, environments and tourists in biosecurity regimes. Moreover, what role will digital technologies play in the reconfiguration of relationships between hosts and guests and the related spaces and practices of hospitality? And more generally, in this session, we would like to think through how a biopolitical lens is useful to analyse practices and regimes of mobility, security, in/exclusion in the context of tourism. Particularly but not exclusively in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More information: https://www.ngm2022.fi/sessions/
