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Welcome to the website of the INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION (IGU-UGI) COMMISSION ON TOURISM, LEISURE AND GLOBAL CHANGE
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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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 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'* NEW!
Conference 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' in Johannesburg, South Africa, on September 11-12, 2023. The IGU Tourism Commission is proud to be co-sponsoring a session track at the 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* 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* IGU Tourism Commission's 2022 Newsletter out now |
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.
