3rd Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, Bournemouth, UK, 6-9 September 2009
Emerald is proud to sponsor the 3rd Advances in Tourism Conference, offering a best-paper award for the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Tourism Review, and the Journal Place Management and Development.
The title of the conference is Marketing Innovations for Sustainable Destinations: Operations, Interactions, Experiences with the deadline for the submission of conference papers being 1 February 2009. Key note presentations are to be made at the conference by:
- Kaye Chon, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China SAR
- Tim Coles, Exeter University, United Kingdom
- Christine Ennew, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
- Jean Marc Flambert, Your Tourism Partner and Secrets of Ceylon
- Simon Hudson, University of Calgary, Canada
- Peter Keller, Former CEO, Swiss Tourist Board, Switzerland
- Geoffrey Lipman, UN World Tourism Organization
- Victor Middleton, Independent Consultant, United Kingdom
- Luiz Moutinho, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Goodfellow Publishers has already been 'signed up' for hard and e-publications of the conference proceedings as well as a pre-conference publication of a book containing the 40 best papers submitted for presentation at the conference. Three leading international 'peer-reviewed' journals have also confirmed the conference 'special issue' status with publications due in 2010. A number of international publishers will also be present throughout the conference while on Thursday 10 September Dimitrios Buhalis and Daniel R Fesenmaier will be hosting a one-day seminar on eTourism which is open to all conference delegates at no additional cost.
The conference will be running between Sunday 6 and Wednesday 9 September 2009 and will be hosted at the Talbot Campus of the University with the conference dinners on the evenings of Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 hosted at two excellent locations in the centre of Bournemouth. Conference excursions will include a trip to the nearby Jurassic Coast (visit: http://www.jurassiccoast.com/) and an opportunity for delegates to surf on Europe's first ever artificial surf reef (visit: http://www.bournemouthsurfreef.co.uk/). Hence, in addition to spending a very enjoyable few days in Bournemouth it is hoped that you will also enjoy a very stimulating and thought-provoking conference with over 200 delegates from across the world.
All matters relating to the conference can be found on the conference web site at: <http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/atmc2009 >. The Registration Form and Call for Papers can be found at: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/icthr/Registration_Documents.html with the deadline for the submission of papers being 1 February 2009.