The 15th annual Consumer Behaviour in Tourism Symposium (CBTS) provides an opportunity for tourism scholars from all over the world to exchange scientific ideas and results and discuss new and emerging directions in research and practice in the field. As in past years, CBTS 2023 will provide the opportunity for tourism researchers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange scientific ideas and results and discuss new and emerging directions in research and practice in the field.

Submissions

The Scientific Committee welcomes theoretical or applied research contributions in the form of structured abstracts on the following topics:

• Changes in consumer behaviour during times of disruptions
• Anticipating and handling disruptions in tourism
• The role of marketing in recovering from disruptions
• Keeping tourists engaged during disruptions
• Digital travel marketing in times of crises
• Destination marketing organisations’ responses to disruptions
• Analysing the travel, hotel and events industries' responses to disruptions
• Disruptive technologies and their implications on tourism
• Re-thinking tourism mobilities during periods of disruptions
• Innovative research methods in exploring consumer behaviour in tourism and hospitality
• Re-thinking and re-organising tourism and hospitality to avoid disruptions
• Innovative methodological approaches to capture tourist behaviour
• If disruption is the ‘New Normal’, what does that mean for the marketing of tourism?
• Re-inventing company and destination resilience strategies
• Quality of life happiness, health, and wellness – what happens when it's disrupted?
• The good, the bad and the ugly - analysing policy challenges during and after disruptions

Abstracts should be fully anonymous and clearly state the research question(s), approach, method, data, and (expected) results. They should not exceed 500 words, excluding data, figures, and references. They must be submitted as a PDF file. We look forward to receiving your submissions for CBTS through this Easychair system.

Review, Acceptance & PresentationAll submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two members of the scientific committee. After the abstracts have been peer-reviewed, authors will receive notification. Further submission of a working paper or a full paper is not necessary, conference presentations will be based on accepted abstracts. During the symposium, there will be 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) for each accepted and registered abstract. Presented papers or abstracts will not be published in e.g. proceedings of this symposium.

Abstract submission deadline: 10 Mar 2023

Acceptance notification: 20 Mar 2023

Registration deadline: 17 May 2023

Looking forward to meeting you in Breda!

The Organizing Committee of CBTS