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From: Maria Radan-Gorska
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Subject: Calls for papers from the International Journal for Responsible
Tourism (IJRT)
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Date sent: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:28:46 +0300
Dear all,
the International Journal for Responsible Tourism (IJRT)
currently has two calls for papers. Please see details below.
Deadlines may be extended. If you wish to submit a paper but
cannot make the target date, please get in touch. Submissions
and enquiries should be sent at maria.gorska@fundatia-
amfiteatru.ro.
(1) Call for Papers - International Journal of Responsible
Tourism (DL October 19)
http://amphitheatreconferences.gm.ro/publications/ijrt/call-for-
papers/issue-12015/
The International Journal for Responsible Tourism (IJRT) aims
to create a space for analyzing and debating key issues related
to the notion of responsible tourism. We invite scientific papers
that are both theoretically informed and empirically grounded
and we are particularly interested in scholarship that can be
applied, serving as a base for training and guiding various
tourism practitioners. Some of the questions and topics with
which we seek to engage include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- What are the key issues related to responsible tourism?
What is the difference between this notion and other forms of
tourism, such as sustainable tourism, ecotourism, geotourism,
alternative tourism, durable tourism etc.?
- How do local communities and tourism stakeholders
understand and apply the principles of responsible tourism?
How do they face the challenge of adapting to the changing
demands of tourists while preserving natural and cultural
heritage?
- How selective is responsible tourism? Is it engaging all the
members of the community in the same way? How can tourism
be a vehicle for socio-economic equality?
- What is the role of policies and state authorities in
supporting responsible tourism? Are they always fostering it, or
there are also cases when they can become a hindrance?
- How can education transform tourism practices and make
them more responsible?
- How does irresponsible tourism look like and what can be
learned from negative examples?
- Are there any tensions and contradictions in the notion of
responsible tourism and can the various forms of responsibility
come into conflict? How, for instance, do local communities
respond to policies and regulations meant to safeguard the
environment?
(2) Call for Papers (Special Issue) - Trips that Heal:
Exploring Recent Trends in Wellness, Health and Medical
Tourism (DL October 26)
http://amphitheatreconferences.gm.ro/publications/ijrt/call-for-
papers/issue-22015-special-issue/
The notion that travel has restorative properties lies at the
historical roots of tourism. Tourists´ pursuits have long been
guided by an underlining belief that by `getting away´ from time
to time they can improve their physical and mental health (Urry
2001). Over the past century, specific styles of tourism have
emerged to provide more focused responses to a wide range of
curative needs. Today people travel to spas and balneary
destinations for non-invasive practices and preventive
treatments (Reisman 2010) but also, and increasingly, to state-
of-the art hospitals, for more targeted intrusive procedures (Lunt
et al. 2011).
This special issue of IJRT is concerned more broadly with
Wellness and Health Tourism, but has a particular focus on
Medical Tourism. Some of the questions and topics with which
we seek to engage include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The conceptualisation and terminology used in
understanding these different types of tourism, as well as their
methodological underpinning (Connell 2013). How can we
quantify and assess the impacts of these phenomena? How do
they differ and overlap and what is their relation with more
standard forms of tourism?
- The demographic, social and economic background of
people who travel for health reasons. How do travellers´ profiles
link with the severity of the procedures they pursue?
- Markets and marketing of medical tourism. How and why
do markets for medical tourism develop (Lunt and Carrera
2010)? Who are the key stakeholders in this process? What are
the marketing strategies of the industry? Papers that bring
evidence from emerging markets are particularly welcome.
- Barriers vs. assistance encountered by tourists/patients in
their travel. What kind of legal, bureaucratic, cultural, material
and emotional issues they face and what are the actual or
possible responses in terms of infrastructure and regulations
offered by the industry´s stakeholders and by policy makers
(Garcia-Altes 2005)?
- Trips that do not heal. What can go wrong in Wellness,
Health, or Medical tourism? How can legislation, international
partnerships or accreditation schemes be developed in order to
protect tourists/patients (Reisman 2010; Lund et al. 2011)? How
do people access information about service providers and how
reliable is this knowledge?
- Country-level risks and benefits of outsourcing medical
services (Bies and Zacharia 2007). What is the impact of
medical tourism on the national healthcare systems of both
sending and receiving countries?
References
Bies, W. and Zacharia, L. (2007). Medical tourism: Outsourcing
surgery. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 46, 1144-1159.
Connell, G. (2013). Contemporary medical tourism:
Conceptualisation, culture and commodification. Tourism
Management, 34, 1-13.
Garcia-Altes, A. (2005). The Development of Health Tourism
Services. Annals of Tourism Research, 32(1), pp. 262-266
Lunt, N., Smith, R., Exworthy M., Green, S. T., Horsfall, D. and
Mannion, R. (2011) Medical Tourism: Treatments, Markets and
Health System Implications: A scoping review [Online]. Available
from: http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/48723982.pdf
Lunt, N. and Carrera, P. (2010). Medical tourism: Assessing the
evidence on treatment abroad. Maturitas, 66, 27-32.
Reisman, D. (2010). Health Tourism: Social Welfare Through
International Trade. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Urry, J. (2001). The tourist gaze. Leisure and Travel in
Contemporary Societies. London: Sage.
Submission guidelines
Papers must be between 5000 - 9000 words. Shorter texts may
be submitted as research notes or essays. Authors are required
to provide a short abstract, 3-5 keywords, and mention their
(academic) title and institutional affiliation. References should
be cited according to the Harvard style. Please send
manuscripts to [log in to unmask]
About IJRT
The International Journal for Responsible Tourism (IJRT) aims
to create a space for analysing and debating key issues related
to the notion of responsible tourism. We invite scientific papers
that are both theoretically informed and empirically grounded
and we are particularly interested in scholarship that can be
applied, serving as a base for training and guiding various
tourism practitioners.
IJRT is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal edited by
the Amphitheatre Centre for Education, Development and
Research. The publication is the first of its kind in Romania and
it also represents the main outlet for papers that are discussed
in the International Forum for Responsible Tourism. IJRT is
indexed by RePEc, Econ Papers, EBSCO, CABI, Index
Copernicus, CIRET and getCITED International. For more
information and the full archive of the journal, please visit:
http://amphitheatreconferences.gm.ro/publications/ijrt/about-ijrt/.
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