Call for Papers:
IGU Tourism Commission Pre-Meeting in Galway, Ireland
22nd to 24th August 2024.
Theme: Just Transitions and Transformations in Tourism
This call for papers is now closed - link to programme available below.
More information on the IGU Tourism Pre-Meeting in Galway is available via this LINK.
The Provisional Programme for the Pre-Meeting is now available via this LINK.
The IGU Tourism Commission is delighted to host the IGC2024 Pre-Meeting in Galway, Ireland, August 22nd–24th 2024. Building on the well-established tradition of bringing tourism geographers together before the main IGC so as to debate pertinent questions pertaining to contemporary tourism, this Pre-Meeting extends a Céad míle fáilte (a very warm welcome) to all geographers working on tourism-related issues.
The Pre-meeting will comprise a day of academic sessions held on the University of Galway campus in the heart of Galway city (Aug 22nd ), a day of field visits centred on the rural Burren region in neighbouring county Clare (Aug 23rd ) and finally, (Aug 24 th ) a morning of field visits in Galway city before travelling to Dublin for the afternoon opening of the IGC.
While cognisant of the many positive contributions that tourism can make to people, communities and places the world over, tourism geographers and other scholars have long critiqued prevailing tourism structures, mobilities and practices because of the challenges they pose for social, cultural, economic and environmental sustainability. The guiding framework for sustainable development provided by the UN SDGs continues to provoke a search for new, alternative and better ways forward in the context of climate change and global societal crises. Tourism geographers have been to the fore in calling for profound transformation, and research output advocating regenerative approaches / transformational shifts is growing.
While academic commentators agree that change is both necessary and monumentally challenging to achieve, policy makers are equally charged, albeit unequally vested, with finding effective visions, approaches and mechanisms. The EU, for example, is currently investing heavily in a ‘Just Transition’ programme. Like the UN’s SDGs, the aim of the Just Transition project is to leave no one behind. Currently being adopted by governments within the EU, including in Ireland, it is a framework that guides and incentivises currently unsustainable systems and practices to transition to structurally different alternatives that reduce or at least stabilise climate change while fostering socio-cultural equality and inclusion. Somewhat ironically, tourism often features centrally as a transitional pathway, notwithstanding existing awareness of the problems engendered by tourism practices as currently structured and the growing calls, in some arenas, for tourism degrowth.
This Tourism Commission Pre-Meeting welcomes contributions from tourism geographers on any matter relating to contemporary tourism but it particularly welcomes contributions that problematise how tourism is currently enmeshed in unsustainable modes of production and consumption and/or propose where more societally just, culturally inclusive and climate neutral future tourism pathways might lie.
More information on the IGU Tourism Pre-Meeting in Galway is available via this LINK.
The Provisional Programme (PDF format) for the Pre-Meeting is now available via this LINK.
Day 1 University of Galway Campus (22nd August 2024)
Day 2 Field trip to County Clare (23rd August 2024)
Day 3 (24th August 2024) Galway City (AM) and travel to Dublin.
Accommodation information is available via this LINK.
Travel options to/from Galway are available via this LINK.
(Photo credits: Bernadette Quinn)
IGU Tourism Commission Pre-Meeting in Galway, Ireland
22nd to 24th August 2024.
Theme: Just Transitions and Transformations in Tourism
This call for papers is now closed - link to programme available below.
More information on the IGU Tourism Pre-Meeting in Galway is available via this LINK.
The Provisional Programme for the Pre-Meeting is now available via this LINK.
The IGU Tourism Commission is delighted to host the IGC2024 Pre-Meeting in Galway, Ireland, August 22nd–24th 2024. Building on the well-established tradition of bringing tourism geographers together before the main IGC so as to debate pertinent questions pertaining to contemporary tourism, this Pre-Meeting extends a Céad míle fáilte (a very warm welcome) to all geographers working on tourism-related issues.
The Pre-meeting will comprise a day of academic sessions held on the University of Galway campus in the heart of Galway city (Aug 22nd ), a day of field visits centred on the rural Burren region in neighbouring county Clare (Aug 23rd ) and finally, (Aug 24 th ) a morning of field visits in Galway city before travelling to Dublin for the afternoon opening of the IGC.
While cognisant of the many positive contributions that tourism can make to people, communities and places the world over, tourism geographers and other scholars have long critiqued prevailing tourism structures, mobilities and practices because of the challenges they pose for social, cultural, economic and environmental sustainability. The guiding framework for sustainable development provided by the UN SDGs continues to provoke a search for new, alternative and better ways forward in the context of climate change and global societal crises. Tourism geographers have been to the fore in calling for profound transformation, and research output advocating regenerative approaches / transformational shifts is growing.
While academic commentators agree that change is both necessary and monumentally challenging to achieve, policy makers are equally charged, albeit unequally vested, with finding effective visions, approaches and mechanisms. The EU, for example, is currently investing heavily in a ‘Just Transition’ programme. Like the UN’s SDGs, the aim of the Just Transition project is to leave no one behind. Currently being adopted by governments within the EU, including in Ireland, it is a framework that guides and incentivises currently unsustainable systems and practices to transition to structurally different alternatives that reduce or at least stabilise climate change while fostering socio-cultural equality and inclusion. Somewhat ironically, tourism often features centrally as a transitional pathway, notwithstanding existing awareness of the problems engendered by tourism practices as currently structured and the growing calls, in some arenas, for tourism degrowth.
This Tourism Commission Pre-Meeting welcomes contributions from tourism geographers on any matter relating to contemporary tourism but it particularly welcomes contributions that problematise how tourism is currently enmeshed in unsustainable modes of production and consumption and/or propose where more societally just, culturally inclusive and climate neutral future tourism pathways might lie.
More information on the IGU Tourism Pre-Meeting in Galway is available via this LINK.
The Provisional Programme (PDF format) for the Pre-Meeting is now available via this LINK.
Day 1 University of Galway Campus (22nd August 2024)
Day 2 Field trip to County Clare (23rd August 2024)
Day 3 (24th August 2024) Galway City (AM) and travel to Dublin.
Accommodation information is available via this LINK.
Travel options to/from Galway are available via this LINK.
(Photo credits: Bernadette Quinn)
