Please contact Jane Carnaffan if interested in the following:
DARN (Developing Areas Research Network), Tourism Research Network
Postgraduate Conference 18th October 2006, 2-5 pm
Devonshire Building, Newcastle University
Tourism 2050-Call for Posters-Deadline 29th September
Keywords: tourism; the future; development; sustainable development;
society; economy; environment.
Year 2050: Europe has its own Space Tourism Industry; Australia's Great
Barrier Reef is all but dead; China's economy has doubled in size and it
is the fourth most important outbound travel market in the world...what
does your research have to say about the future?
Tourism, frequently reported as the world's largest industry, is a high
priority in development plans for both the North and South. The concept
of sustainable development has been given a high profile since the 1987
Bruntland Report, although the evidence for sustainability in tourism is
mixed. It therefore holds significant and substantial consequences for
global society, economy and environment.
If by 2050 Chinese and South Asians pursue world tourism on the scale of
Europeans and North Americans today, will the beaches of Barbados or the
pavements of London be wide enough? What will be the effect on the
atmosphere, on the services tourists need, on land and water? How does
tourist spending shape the local economies, in both North and South,
which tourists visit?
This poster-conference offers post-graduates the opportunity to take a
fresh look at their own research through the lens of the future.
Delegates will be asked to prepare a poster on the implications and
questions raised by their research and then to take part in what
promises to be a lively round-table discussion.
Unfortunately we will not be able to pay for travel expenses or the
costs of poster production.
Please contact:
Jane Carnaffan
Geography
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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