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Call for papers
Tourism in ASEAN has been on the rise in the past decades, is predicted to grow further and is a key element of the regional community’s strategic action plan for 2025 (ASEAN Secretariat, 2017; WTTC, 2016). Vietnam is a key contributor to regional tourism growth with increasing numbers of both international and domestic tourists year by year. The country saw almost 15.5 million international tourist arrivals in 2018; this number will likely be surpassed in 2019 due to strong growth rates (VNAT, 2019). Despite the social, cultural and economic importance of tourism in Vietnam, Vietnam tourism has received limited attention by the international academic community. At the same time, studies and perceptions of Asian tourism in general and Vietnamese tourism in particular are often Western-centric and there is a need for more prominent local knowledge creation and sharing (Alneng, 2002; Cohen and Cohen, 2015; Winter, 2009).
For these reasons, British University Vietnam (BUV) is pleased to host the international conference on ‘Vietnam tourism in the 21st century’. The conference will take place in Ecopark near Hanoi, Vietnam’s vibrant capital, at BUV’s brand new state-of-the-art campus. We aim to create an inclusive environment where Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese researchers, students and practitioners can discuss practices, opportunities and challenges in relation to Vietnamese travel and tourism. We would also like to specifically encourage undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit their research work.
We are now inviting abstract submissions of conceptual, empirical and methodological nature in relation to the broad topic of Vietnamese tourism, including but not limited to the themes listed below:
Submission guidelines and important dates
Abstracts should be up to 600 words in length, including key references in Harvard style, and written in English. Please also include up to five keywords. Abstracts should be emailed as a Microsoft Word document to [log in to unmask]. Please make sure your email includes names, institutional affiliations and email addresses of all authors. All abstract will be double blind reviewed by our scientific committee.
More information
For more information please visit our website and join our Facebook event page. Any queries can be directed to the conference organisers at [log in to unmask].
We look forward to welcoming you in Hanoi in December!
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Pham Hong Long/PhD, Dean, Lecturer
Faculty of Tourism Studies, VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities
No.507, 5th Floor, Block B
336 Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi
[log in to unmask]@vnu.edu.vn /0914914989/+8438588591
Dear Long
I hope this email finds you well!
I just want to let you know that the call for papers for our conference has now been published – apologies if you have already seen this on other channels.
We would be grateful if you could share it with your colleagues and network and it would be fantastic if you could encourage your students to submit any research projects as well.
Thank you so much!
Maren
From: Maren Viol <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 2:36 PM
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Subject: Call for papers: Vietnam Tourism in the 21st Century
Call for papers
Tourism in ASEAN has been on the rise in the past decades, is predicted to grow further and is a key element of the regional community’s strategic action plan for 2025 (ASEAN Secretariat, 2017; WTTC, 2016). Vietnam is a key contributor to regional tourism growth with increasing numbers of both international and domestic tourists year by year. The country saw almost 15.5 million international tourist arrivals in 2018; this number will likely be surpassed in 2019 due to strong growth rates (VNAT, 2019). Despite the social, cultural and economic importance of tourism in Vietnam, Vietnam tourism has received limited attention by the international academic community. At the same time, studies and perceptions of Asian tourism in general and Vietnamese tourism in particular are often Western-centric and there is a need for more prominent local knowledge creation and sharing (Alneng, 2002; Cohen and Cohen, 2015; Winter, 2009).
For these reasons, British University Vietnam (BUV) is pleased to host the international conference on ‘Vietnam tourism in the 21st century’. The conference will take place in Ecopark near Hanoi, Vietnam’s vibrant capital, at BUV’s brand new state-of-the-art campus. We aim to create an inclusive environment where Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese researchers, students and practitioners can discuss practices, opportunities and challenges in relation to Vietnamese travel and tourism. We would also like to specifically encourage undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit their research work.
We are now inviting abstract submissions of conceptual, empirical and methodological nature in relation to the broad topic of Vietnamese tourism, including but not limited to the themes listed below:
Submission guidelines and important dates
Abstracts should be up to 600 words in length, including key references in Harvard style, and written in English. Please also include up to five keywords. Abstracts should be emailed as a Microsoft Word document to [log in to unmask]. Please make sure your email includes names, institutional affiliations and email addresses of all authors. All abstract will be double blind reviewed by our scientific committee.
More information
For more information please visit our website and join our Facebook event page. Any queries can be directed to the conference organisers at [log in to unmask].
We look forward to welcoming you in Hanoi in December!
Latest publication: Viol, M., Todd, L., Theodoraki, E. & Anastasiadou, C. (2018) ‘The role of iconic-historic commemorative events in event tourism: Insights from the 20th and 25th anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall’, Tourism Management, 69, 246-262, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.06.018.