This is the second call for abstracts for Tourism Research 2002 - An
International interdisciplinary Conference in Wales, to be held in Cardiff
on 4th - 7th September 2002. Specific information is also provided on Panel
3 - 'Tourism, language and communication' and Panel 4 - 'Heritage, culture
and community'. I do hope that you will consider making an individual
contribution to the conference or by encouraging research collaborators to
get involved.
Sincerely
Professor David Botterill
Tourism Research 2002
An International Interdisciplinary Conference in Wales
Cardiff, 4-7 September 2002
Co-Chairs:
Steve Webb, Wales Tourist Board & Professor David Botterill, Welsh School of
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Management, University of Wales Institute,
Cardiff
The conference will provide a platform for international researchers
interested in the phenomenon of tourism to consider state of the art
interdisciplinary developments in the field. Tourism Research 2002 is a
partnership project led by UWIC and WTB in collaboration with the
universities of Wales. The tourism agenda for the conference has been set
with Wales in mind but the aspiration for debate at Tourism Research 2002 is
internationalist and the themes and topics invite comparison and critique
from around the world.
Conference Fees
£375 (sterling) per person for 4-day residential package (including campus
en-suite single accommodation, conference dinners and other meals, delegate
pack and proceedings). Limited places available on-campus.
Go to our website for details of other delegate packages
www.uwic.ac.uk/tourismresearch2002
Second Call for Abstracts
We welcome the submission of abstracts of original research papers on
aspects of tourism research within Panels 1 - 7 indicated below. Research
degree students in the latter stages of their research may also consider
submitting under this call. A separate call for the Panel 8 Postgraduate
Symposium will be issued.
Key themes for the conference are:
Panel 1: Competitiveness and quality in a tourism SME economy
Chair: Dr Eleri Jones, UWIC
Panel 2: The coast and tourism
Chair: Dr Rhoda Ballinger, Cardiff University
Panel 3: Tourism, language and communication
Chairs: Dr Adam Jaworski, Cardiff University & Dr Annette Pritchard, UWIC
The aim of the Panel is to bring together current research on tourism
through the study of face-to-face and mediated communication. The focus of
the papers will be discourse as both text (spoken, written, visual, etc.)
and/or as social practice. The Panel will include interdisciplinary
contributions informed, among others, by discourse analysis, interactional
sociolinguistics, social semiotics, multimodality, ethnography,
communication science, cultural and gender studies.
Key Themes for Panel 3:
* Tourist-host interaction
* Tourism as intercultural communication
* Tourism and language choice/maintenance/loss
* Ethnographies of tourist destinations
* Tourists' accounts of hosts/locals and tourist destinations
* Hosts'/locals' accounts of tourists and tourist destinations
* Touristic representations of people, nature and culture
* Travel journalism in print and electronic media
* The semiotics of a memento: holiday videos, photographs, postcards
and souvenirs
Panel 4: Heritage, culture and community
Chair: Professor Richard Prentice, University of Sunderland
This Panel is focusing on the consumption of beliefs, attitudes, traditions
and behaviours as tourism, and the impacts of such consumption both on
creativity and on the formation of identities and their change. The Panel's
focus is broad in terms of subject matter, and includes forms of tourism
based on the spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional dimensions of
societies. In particular, the Panel is seeking to address the motivations,
formations, imaginings and meanings of tourism consumption, their proffering
both by destination 'imageering' and attraction design, and their effects
both upon tourists and communities. The Panel is therefore concerned both
with the cultures of tourism as with cultural tourism. It is concerned both
with qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and particularly with the
inter-action of the two. As such, the Panel is encouraging interdisciplinary
tourism research, informed especially by discourses found in cultural
studies, the creative arts, sociology, cultural geography, museology, and
experiential marketing, and in associated areas of discourse on tourism.
Key Themes for Panel 4:
* Uses of heritage tourism, cultural tourism & creative tourism
* Tourism as purposive, expressive & meaningful consumption
* Lifestyle as the narration of the self through tourism
* Tourists' consumption as experience, integration, classification &
play
* Tourist 'realisms' and tourists' cultural imaginings &
verisimilitudes
* Serious leisure
* Market-led positioning & repositioning for cultural tourism
* Mood & evocation marketing
* Celebration & creativity in destination offerings
* Impacts of tourists' consumption on everyday lived cultures
* The interfacing of cultural strategies and tourism
Panel 5: Social and environmental inclusion and tourism
Chair: Professor Brian Goodall, University of Reading
Panel 6: Tourism, governments and global capital in transitional economies
Chair: Professor Derek Hall, Scottish Agricultural College
Panel 7: Natural environments, sustainability and tourism
Chair: Ray Youell, Univerisity of Wales, Aberystwyth
Panel 8: Postgraduate Symposium
Chairs: Professor Eberhard Bischoff, University of Wales, Swansea & Dr Nigel
Morgan, UWIC
Abstract requirements and submission deadlines
Short abstracts must be received by Friday 15 February 2002, and should
include:
* authors' names, affiliations and contact address;
* title;
* an abstract of approximately 350-500 words.
This should be sent electronically in Word for Windows 6.0/95 to
[log in to unmask] with 'ABSTRACT' as the subject. Or, if email
is not available, submitted on hard copy to the conference address, with the
envelope clearly marked 'ABSTRACT'.
Contributors will be informed of the outcome of Panel Chair's review of
their submission and sent instructions for submission of extended abstract
by Friday 5 April 2002.
Extended abstracts and conference bookings must be received by Friday 14
June 2002. Extended abstracts will include:
* author's names, affiliations and contact address;
* background to paper
* key question/issue addressed
* methods and/or data sources
* indicative findings
Final acceptance of an abstract will be conditional upon the receipt of a
confirmed conference booking.
The language of the conference is English.
Publications
Full abstracts will be published in ISBN proceedings and made available to
all delegates at the conference.
Selected conference papers will contribute to a series of post-conference
high quality research monographs in each of the key panel themes.
Conference Address
Please email or post abstracts to:
CLAIRE HAVEN
Conference Abstract
Welsh School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Management
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
Colchester Avenue
CARDIFF CF23 9XR
Telephone: 029 2041 6320/6315
Fax: 029 2041 6930
Email: [log in to unmask]
More information is available at www.uwic.ac.uk/tourismresearch2002
Outline Indicative Conference Schedule
Wednesday 4 September 2002 - Main Conference Day One (Panels 1-7)
Thursday 5 September 2002 - Main Conference Day Two (Panels 1-7)
Conference Dinner
Friday 6 September 2002 - Main Conference Day Three (Panels 1-7)
ATHE Postgraduate Symposium Day One (Panel 8)
Saturday 7 September 2002 - Main Conference Day Four (Panels 1-7)
ATHE Postgraduate Symposium Day Two (Panel
8)
Collaborating universities
Cardiff University
Swansea Institute of Higher Education
Trinity College Carmarthen
University of Glamorgan
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC)
University of Wales Swansea
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Wales, Bangor
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