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Toukokuu 2009ATLAS annual conference 2009: Experiencing Difference. Changing Tourism and Tourists' Experiences Aalborg University, Denmark, 27 - 29 May 2009 Experiences have always been a central part of tourism - from the educational pursuits of the 17th century Grand Tours and up until extreme sport endeavours of the present day. What seems to have changed most significantly within recent years is, however, the efforts and ingenuity that tourism marketers put into creating experience possibilities that set their tourism destination, attraction, accommodation facility or other types of tourism services apart from competitors' and make their offers the favoured choice among tourists. ..The theme of the 2009 annual ATLAS conference has been inspired by this recent surge of interest in tourism and experiences, and papers will reflect the many different roles of experiences in tourism.
Kesäkuu 2009Matkailu- ja vapaa-ajantutkimuksen symposiumi 2.-3.6.2009 SavonlinnassaSuomen matkailututkimuksen seura ry:n V Matkailu- ja vapaa-ajantutkimuksen symposiumin teemana on "Opitaan menneistä ja katsotaan tulevaisuuteen". Teema liittyy siihen, että seura täyttää tänä vuonna viisi vuotta. Matkailu- ja vapaa-ajantutkimuksen symposiumista vastaa Suomen matkailututkimuksen seura ry. Symposiumin pitopaikkakunta vaihtelee vuosittain. Tänä vuonna järjestelyt tehdään yhteistyössä Matkailualan opetus- ja tutkimuslaitoksen (Joensuun yliopisto) kanssa. Symposiumiin ovat tervetulleita kaikki matkailututkimusta tekevät, sitä hyödyntävät ja siitä kiinnostuneet henkilöt. Symposiumiin osallistuvien toivotaan alustavan, mutta myös pelkkä 4th International Lake Tourism Conference, June 21-25, 2009, Thunder Bay, Canada http://www.laketourism.org/content/view/37/1/ The 4th International Lake Tourism Conference is hosted by Lakehead University and its Centre for Tourism and Community Development Research from June 21 – 25, 2009 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Elokuu 20092009 AIEST Congress will take place 23 - 27 August, 2009 in Savonlinna, FUNTS (Finnish University Network for Tourism Studies) and Univeristy of Joensuu, Centre for Tourism Studies will be hosting the 59th Congress of AIEST. Contact in Finland: Professor Raija Komppula email: firstname.surname @joensuu.fi, Centre for Tourism Studies, University of Joensuu at Savonlinna.
Lokakuu 2009Second Call for Papers 18th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research 22th - 25th October 2009, Esbjerg, Denmark and Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. *Abstracts of 250 words are due June 20th, 2009. Please send to cic@aber.ac.uk* Adventure Tourism Associate Professor Truls Engstrøm, Norwegian School of Hotel management, University of Stavanger, Norway and Dr Carl Cater, Lecturer in Tourism, Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK Adventure tourism is an industry sector that has seen significant global growth as outdoor recreation opportunities have become increasingly commercialised. It includes a great diversity of activities from those with little actual risk to those posing quite significant challenges to participants. Despite the prevalence of these activities in the Nordic tourism product, and some existing case studies, there has been little to bring this research together to provide a broad overview of developments in the region. Partly this may be explained by the domestic market in these countries being largely made up of independent adventure recreationalists, as opposed to tourists. However, being endowed with well managed wilderness environments and having proximity to significant source markets, there is great opportunity for further development of this sector. Authors agree that adventure tourism activities include specific elements such as: specific skills and elements of risk (perceived or real) in which the outcome is influenced by the participation. However, increased commodification of the adventure experience has involved transfer of risk responsibility to commercial operators. In this realm the experience may become overloaded with high expectations, especially if the setting and perceptions of the organizer differ from that of the tourist. The adventure industry is expected to continue its growth in size and diversity and it is important that the academic and industry understanding of the adventure sector and the broader adventure phenomenon are taken seriously. Even though academics have started to conduct research in the area our research based knowledge of adventure tourism is still modest and fragmented, and based mostly on studies in a North American or Australasian context. This is partly due to the fact that adventure tourism is only recently establishing itself as an academic line of inquiry but more significantly because it is a very complex and dynamic tourism phenomenon. For this conference session we invite researchers to submit manuscripts on current issues in adventure tourism development and related topics of relevance for the Nordic Countries. Manuscripts will be pre-circulated prior to the conference in order to facilitate and encourage debate. Selected papers will be invited to contribute towards a special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Among the topics of interest are: Sustainable adventure tourism; Risk management; Energy consumption in the adventure industry; History of adventure tourism; Supply and demand of adventure tourism; Perceptions of adventure; Proliferation of stakeholders; Trends in adventure tourism ; Technological change; Participation diversity; Motivations and constraints; Cultural differences in adventure; Mental and physiological impact of participation; User group conflicts Submissions: Abstracts of 250 words are due June 20th, 2009. Please send to cic@aber.ac.uk Discussion papers due September 1st 2009 18th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research, Esbjerg, Denmark, 22th - 25th October 2009 http://www.sdu.dk/om_sdu/institutter_centre/c_tik/nordic_symposium2009.aspx?sc_lang=en Selected papers will be submitted for review in early 2010 for a Special Issue on Adventure Tourism in Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, to bepublished in 2011. For further information please contact guest editors on e-mail:
truls.engstrom@uis.no or cic@aber.ac.uk
EuroCHRIE Annual Confrence eurochrie@haaga-helia.fi 22nd to 24th October 2009 HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
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