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Special Track 6: Knowledge Co-creation and Destination Dynamics in Heritage Tourism
Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-29 September, 2018
Dear colleagues,
As one of the special tracks to be included in late March, we are delighted that the deadline for abstract submission for the ATLAS Annual Conference 2018 has been extended to 30th April 2018. We will like to invite submissions of abstracts for our special track: Knowledge Co-creation and Destination Dynamics in Heritage Tourism (the call and more information below). The conference has already received more than 100 abstracts so far and so Copenhagen is the destination to link up this September!!!
Regards,
Chin-Ee
Special track 6: Knowledge Co-creation and Destination Dynamics in Heritage Tourism
Track convenors:
Dr Chin-Ee Ong, National University of Singapore, ICOMOS Singapore
Dr Sharif Shams Imon, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao, ICOMOS Bangladesh
Destinations are often active agents for the co-production of various sets of tourism knowledge and their corresponding arrays of dissemination, capacity-building and education channels. We see these in forms of conservation, training and education programmes funded by UNWTO, UNESCO and other international agencies and NGOs. Destination communities have also come together to resist, negotiate and/or co-create knowledges of their heritage tourism worlds. From tour guiding scripts for an ancient Angkorian temple to conservation guidelines for a thriving plot of mangrove, heritage tourism knowledge production and distribution have commonly been thought of as ‘value-free’ and straightforward capacity-building endeavours. However, they have increasingly been collaborative, networked, political, transnational and multiscalar processes.
In this special track, we will explore the role of cultural and natural heritage tourism knowledge (co)production and distribution in destination changes. We are also interested in the role of communities, conservationists, heritage managers, tourism experts and other actors in such abovementioned processes.
Potential themes include:
• Role of knowledge (co)production and distribution in destination change
• Production and consumption of heritage, tourism and heritage tourism knowledge and their interplay with destination dynamics
• Social justice, neo-liberalism, power-knowledge, politics of representation in heritage and tourism education content
• ‘Buzzwords’ and tourism education (eg. sustainability, resilience, pro-poor, community-based) and their implications for destination dynamics
• Quality assurance and control, effective communication, pedagogic techniques, technologies and paradigms in academic and professional tourism and heritage education
• Tourism and education programmes in degree granting institutions
• Site manager training for UNESCO World Heritage sites
• Tour(ist) guide, docent and heritage interpreter training
• The role of tourism schools in their communities and destinations
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 (http://www.atlas-euro.org/event_2018_copenhagen_abstract/tabid/294/language/en-US/Default.aspx).
Enquiries can be directed to Chin-Ee at email: [log in to unmask]
More info at the updated website: http://www.atlas-euro.org/Default.aspx?TabID=280
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