27 NST: 27th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research UiT Campus Alta Alta, Norway, September 24-26, 2018 |
Conference website | https://uit.no/prosjekter/prosjekt?p_document_id=525602 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=27nst |
Abstract registration deadline | April 1, 2018 |
Submission deadline | April 1, 2018 |
The era of tourism being in its infancy is over. It is a significant industry in most places of the world, and still expanding. This growth and the increased global mobility requires committed engagements and focused reflections on societal, ecological/environmental, political, and economic dimensions, as tourism development is imbued with challenges, dilemmas and controversies.
For instance, through tourism, we provide people with employment and well-being. We also hope to provide experiences, while we inspire imagination and creativity. At the same time, we allow tourism to thrive on ‘unspoiled’ nature, ‘authentic’ cultures, and ‘local’ communities. We strive to increase tourism, but we also feel tourists and migrants as intruders of our homelands. Politics of space are thus not only about welcoming tourists but also about unwelcoming other types of migrants. Moreover, compared to the environmental destructiveness of many other industries, we may consider tourism as a green alternative. Yet, tourism and hospitality are far from being ecologically sustainable industries.
Therefore, there is a need to pose questions on how we can learn, grow and nurture values, which support sustainable, inclusive, robust tourism development that at the same time attend to communities, cultures and natural environments.
The 27th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality will therefore focus on opportunities for a prosperous future with tourism, but at the same time address implications, dilemmas, paradoxes, and controversies related to tourism development.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
The following paper categories are welcome:
- Coming to our senses in tourism?
- Tourism encounters in the sub-arctic North: Implications and dilemmas
- City tourism: Dilemmas and implications in destination development
- Implications of the circular economy in tourism
- The implications of sharing economy for tourism
- Interorganisational relations in tourism and hospitality
- Innovation and development of tourism and leisure activities in forests
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Human factors in the tourism and hospitality services
- Sustainable experiences in tourism
- Sustainable tourism growth in the Nordic countries
- Sustainable behavior in tourism and hospitality
- Limits to de-growth?: Dilemmas in tourism and de-growth in Nordic countries
- Wildlife tourism
- Safety and leadership
- Tourism education and provision of competence
- Conducting high quality tourism and hospitality research: Reflections and demonstrations of methodological approaches
- Conceptualizations: Blurring the boundaries of tourism practices
- Collaborative research methodologies
- Co-creational methodologies in tourism: Towards collaborative ways of knowing
- Advances in contemporary tourism public policy and planning research
- Transforming destinations: Tourism dynamics, governance and localities in change
- Indigenous entrepreneurship, indigenous knowledge and tourism
- Building shared knowledge for tourism development
- Cruise tourism and its costal sites in the Euro-Asian Arctic: Challenges and opportunities
- Tourism in coastal and marine environments
- Maritime tourism and sustainability: An interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research agenda
- Tourism dimensions of water sustainability
- Advencements in event management research
- Food tourism: A nexus between authenticity and commercialization
- Gender in tourism
- Other themes
Committees
Scientific Committee
- Bente Heimtun
- Dora B. Aamot
- Arvid Viken
- Britt Kramvik
- Brynhild Granås
- Trine Kvidal-Røvik
- Kari Jæger
- Arild Røkenes
- Young Sook-Lee
- Stein Roar Mathisen
- Per Kåre Jacobsen
- Beate Bursta
- Thomas Vordal
- Stine Sand
- Elin Johansen
- Kjell Hines
- Urban Wråkberg
- Peter Haugseth
- Bård Tronvoll
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dora B. Aamot