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​Welcome to the website of the COMMISSION ON TOURISM , LEISURE AND GLOBAL CHANGE
​of the INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION (IGU-UGI)
ABOUT IGU TOURISM
IGU TOURISM BOARD 2020-2024
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​NEW!
The IGU Tourism Commission is very proud to announce that our former Chair, Professor Alan A. Lew has been awarded the IGU's prestigious Lauréat d'Honneur 2022; this is the first time that the Lauréat has been awarded to a geographer specialising in tourism. The IGU Lauréat d’Honneur was established to recognize individuals who have achieved particular distinction or who have rendered outstanding service in the work of the IGU or in international geography and environmental research. Congratulations!

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​NEW!
The IGU Tourism Commission is very proud to announce that our current Chair, Dr Julie Wilson has been awarded the 2022 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group's John Rooney Award for outstanding contributions to the field and discipline of applied recreation, tourism and sport geography. Dr Wilson was also awarded the AAG-RTS Specialty Group's Roy Wolfe Award in 2019.  Congratulations!

​UPDATED!
​ Sessions, social events and the Commissions Excellence Lecture sponsored by the IGU Tourism Commission at the IGU Centennial Congress Paris
18-22nd July 2022 

*Session schedule now available*
​*Registration open until 15th June 2022*


TOURISM COMMISSION SESSIONS, PARIS 2022
Latest news from IguTourism
NEW!
IGU Tourism Commission's 2022 Newsletter
out now!
READ OUR 2022 NEWSLETTER HERE
​​NEW!
IGU Executive's statements on the
Ukraine crisis
Read the statements here

​UPDATED!
IGU Tourism Commission pre-meeting,
​Wageningen, the Netherlands

15-18th July 2022 

*Call for abstracts now closed*


programme - WAGENINGEN PRE-MEETING 2022
​​UPDATED!
The IGU Tourism Commission is collaborating with
 Group 10 (Geography of Tourism) of the Association of Spanish Geographers (AGE) on the international colloquium:​ 

Between recovery and transformation of 
tourism in a post-COVID world: Geographical perspectives
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Cuenca, Spain
20th-22nd October 2022 
*Abstract submission now closed*
*Registration opening soon*
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INFO: AGE colloquium CUENCA 2022

 
THE ​IGU COMMISSION EXCELLENCE AWARD
for 2017 was awarded to our
Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
SEE THE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

Tourism, Leisure and Global Change (TLGC)
The Annual Proceedings of Conferences Supported by the
​IGU Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change

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