The /International Journal for Responsible Tourism (IJRT) /currently has
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extended. If you wish to submit a paper but cannot make the target date,
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*(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 (Garcıa-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.
Garcıa-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
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*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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