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ATLAS Annual conference 2019
Girona, Spain
September 17-20, 2019
Special track 6
Integrating Culture and Nature: Holistic Heritage Management Education and Transforming Heritage Tourism
Track convenor
Chin-Ee Ong - National University of Singapore ([log in to unmask])
Sharif Shams Imon - Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao ([log in to unmask])
Heritage management training and education often conjure notions of actual transformations and imagined transformative potential for host societies, environments and spaces. Heritage management training and education are also often pursued along discrete cultural or natural lines. In this special track, we examine growing interest in the heritage management field in considering the integration of cultural and natural heritage and interrogate the approach’s potential in creating innovations that could bring about positively transformative heritage tourism.
Specifically, we are interested in the following line of inquiry. Does the alignment and integration of cultural and natural aspects of heritage bring about innovative and meaningful heritage management education? What are their impacts for heritage tourism? Do culturally and naturally aligned heritage management education and tourism result in greater positive transformations for host communities and environments? We are also keen on sets of questions beyond what we have framed and considered which may still resonate with the theme of the special track.
More generally, we are interested in any topic concerning the education and training in cultural and natural heritage and tourism. Listed below are illustrative of our interests but the list is not exhaustive:
Transformative training in cultural and natural heritage tourism
Transformative effects of heritage tourism
Production and consumption of heritage, tourism and heritage tourism knowledge
Social justice, neo-liberalism, power-knowledge, politics of representation in education content
‘Buzzwords’ and heritage training and tourism education: sustainability, resilience, pro-poor, community-based tourism
Quality assurance and control, effective communication, pedagogic techniques, technologies and paradigms in academic and professional tourism and heritage education
Heritage tourism and education programmes in degree granting institutions
Site manager training for UNESCO World Heritage sites
Tour(ist) guide and heritage interpreter training
Disciplinary concerns and explorations: Excavating Anthropology, Architecture and Geography and other academic disciplines from professional and academic tourism and leisure courses (eg. ‘the Geography in Heritage Tour Guiding’)
The role of tourism schools in their communities
More information about the Heritage Tourism and Education Research Group:
http://www.atlas-euro.org/sig_education.aspx
All abstracts will be subject to double-blind review by members of the scientific committee. Acceptance of a submission will be based on: theoretical and empirical significance; methodological soundness; relevance to the theme of the conference and logical clarity. The official language of the conference is English. Abstracts should be submitted via the ATLAS website using the abstract form provided.
Best wishes,
Chin Ee and Imon
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