Dear Colleagues,

 

We have received a large number of submissions for our conference and due to a number of requests for an extension, we are extending the abstract submission date to Friday 19 February.

 

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Surrey in July. Please email your abstracts to [log in to unmask].

 

Early Bird Registration is now open at: http://store.surrey.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=61&prodid=280.

 

Conference details below:

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM MANAGEMENT

 

International Tourism, Hospitality & Events Conference, 19-22 July 2016

2^nd Call for Papers: Making an Impact: Creating Constructive Conversations

 

The University of Surrey’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management is hosting a major international tourism, hospitality and events conference 19-22 July 2016. We look forward to welcoming you at the University’s Guildford, Surrey campus in the UK for a vibrant programme of workshops, networking, exchange and social activities starting with a full day of PhD workshops on day one.

 

Academics are increasingly encouraged to engage in enquiry, which contributes to society and the economy and to identify and collaborate with stakeholders, who can benefit from their research through improving social/welfare/public services, influencing public policy or contributing to operational/organizational change. This conference is a space for exchange between and among such stakeholders and academics and for the tourism, hospitality and events fields to learn from good practice in other areas and sectors. It will include keynotes, stakeholder- and end-user-led discussion groups and parallel papers & posters considering and showcasing the delivery and assessment of engaged and impactful research

 

 

Headline speakers & workshop leaders addressing research impact and engagement include:

 

Professor Susanne Becken, Director of Griffith University Institute for Tourism

Robert Govers, Managing Research Partner at www.good.country

John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want

Ufi Ibrahim, Chief Executive, British Hospitality Association

Ana Maria Munar, Copenhagen Business School

Roger Pride, Partner, Heavenly Branding

Paul Pike, Director of Intelligent Venues

 

Paper/Poster Themes

Poster and concurrent session contributions are invited that address contemporary tourism, hospitality and events issues and applications of impactful research. The conference theme offers scope for contributions across a wide variety of contexts across the tourism, hospitality and events sectors; what is important is that they demonstrate or consider pathways to engaged research.

 

The following themes offer guidance for paper and poster submissions:

·         Fair and vibrant societies

·         Sustainable growth and development

·         Competitiveness, performance and productivity

·         Gender

·         Accessibility, inclusion & wellbeing

·         Migration, mobility and new dynamics of work & leisure

·         Consumption, experience and lifestyles

·         Localism, communities & food sovereignty

·         The digital economy & big data

·         Creativity, enterprise and product development

·         Innovative research applications to tourism, hospitality and events practice

·         Knowledge management and transfer

·         The limits and challenges for engaged research

·         Transformative social science

·         Defining, measuring and assessing impact.

 

Key Dates:

·         Deadline for abstract submission              Feb 19^th. 2016

·         Confirmation of paper acceptance            Feb 29^th. 2016

·         Last date for early bird registration `        Apr 18^th. 2016

·         Optional submission of full paper             May 20^th. 2016

·         Deadline for registration                           June 1^st. 2016

 

Contributions Protocols

The conference organizers welcome posters; short (3 slide) presentations and full presentations. Contributors can also submit full papers for publication in the conference proceedings. For all contributions a 250 word abstract for peer review should be submitted to [log in to unmask] as a word document (Arial 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing) under the following headings:

 

Kind regards on behalf of the conference team,

 

Nigel

 

Professor Nigel Morgan

Chair in Tourism & Events Marketing

School of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Telephone: +44 (0)1483 686377

Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH 

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