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​Welcome to the website of the INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION (IGU-UGI) COMMISSION ON TOURISM, LEISURE AND GLOBAL CHANGE
ABOUT IGU TOURISM
IGU TOURISM BOARD 2020-2024
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Many thanks to all those that joined us in Paris and Wageningen for the IGU Centennial Congress 2022 Tourism Commission sessions and the IGU Tourism Commission pre-meeting and doctoral workshop! Check out the website for the 35th International Geographical Congress in Dublin, Ireland, 25th-30th August 2024. 

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programme - WAGENINGEN PRE-MEETING 2022
TOURISM COMMISSION SESSIONS, PARIS 2022
Latest news from IguTourism
NEW!
Call for Abstracts:
 
‘Transport, tourism and climate change: The tyranny of distance travelled’ 

​​The IGU Tourism Commission and the IGU Transport Geography Commission are collaborating together on a special session on ‘Transport, tourism and climate change: The tyranny of distance travelled’ at the EUGEO Congress 2023 in Barcelona, 4th-7th September 2023.

Deadline for abstract submission: 31/03/2023
Info: EUGEO Congress Special Session

Deadline extended until 17/3/23!
The IGU Tourism Commission is proud to be collaborating on the IGU Thematic conference on 

Urban Transformations: Towards Resilient Cities

Mexico D.F.
18th-25th August 2023 


*Abstract submission now open for our sponsored session - 'Tourism as a driver of urban change in post-pandemic cities'*
INFO: IGU MEXICO AUGUST 2023
​​​NEW!
Conference Call for Abstracts
 
From Recovery to Resilience - Sustainable Pathways for Transforming Tourism
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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' in Johannesburg, South Africa, on September 11-12, 2023.
FLYER: ​From Recovery to Resilience

The IGU Tourism Commission is proud to be co-sponsoring a session track at the 
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8th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy IWSE
Vienna, Austria
22nd-23rd May 2023 


*Sponsored session - Resisting norms in a digitally mediated world: Alternatives in tourism and mobilities-related platform economies*
INFO: IGU @ 8TH IWSE VIENNA 2023

The IGU Tourism Commission is proud to be collaborating on the IGU Thematic conference on 

The Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought

Milan, Italy
6th-9th June 2023 


*The IGU Tourism Commission is sponsoring a session entitled - Powered by blowing winds, routed by glittering stars, drifted by unfavourable streams? Being at sea as a tourism resource in geographical thought*
INFO: IGU MILAN JUNE 2023


IGU Tourism Commission's 2022 Newsletter
out now
READ OUR 2022 NEWSLETTER HERE

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Congratulations!
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 recognise 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. 

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