AMFORHT – Lisbon World Forum 2008,
AMFORHT - World
Association for Hospitality and Tourism Education and Training is to
assume its veritable role as a meetings and debate platform between
universities, institutes, schools, international organisations and
companies from the tourism sector, by means of organisation of the
Lisbon World Forum 2008, between October 8-12, 2008.
The Forum’s topic - Climate Change and
Challenges for Tourism Education - represents the culmination of
wide-ranging debate on climate change and its impact on the tourism
sector, addressed from various perspectives in 2007, by means of the
following initiatives: the 5th Global Travel and Tourism Summit
organised by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) ; the IV
European Tourism Forum of the European Commission; the meeting of the
Council of Europe's subcommittee for Tourism Development; the
Convention of the International Congress and Convention Association
(ICCA); the Conference of the “World Youth Student Educational Travel
Confederation”; and the Davos International conference, organised by
the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) and the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP).
Universities, institutes and schools offering tourism education/training,
together with international organisations and companies, will debate
and evaluate the current state of the dual relationship between tourism
and global warming, in light of tourism’s contribution to global
warming, and the latter’s respective impact on tourism, in order to
identify the contribution that may be made by tourism education in
response to this urgent issue.
The AMFORHT Lisbon World Forum 2008, organised in close association
with the World Tourism Organisation (OMT), will use the “Davos
Declaration on Climate Change and Tourism. Responding to Global
Challenges”, of October 3, 2007, as its framework of reference, and
will also focus on good practices that currently exist in the sector’s
companies and on public policies for tourism development, together with
links to research and necessary innovations in educational curricular
components.
Call for papers
General Information
All participants are invited to contribute a presentation to the educational sessions.
Oral presentations will be selected by the Scientific Committee from contributed abstracts.
To submit an abstract at least one of the authors, must be registered in the conference. Your PRN
(Personal Registration Number) is required on the submission form.
Abstracts
Each abstract should be headed by a short and specific title. State the
objective of the presentation, give brief information on methods, a
summary of the results and a statement of the conclusions. The abstract
text is limited to 2500 characters (with spaces). All abstracts must
follow the prescribed format set out below and use the supplied
template.
Preparation
Abstracts should be submitted via email as attachments. Download the template
for abstract submission, fill it in according to the instructions below
and name it using the name of the presenting author (i.e. Ulrika
Hjelm.doc) and save it as an 'doc' file.
Attach the file to an email, and send it to
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. In 24 hours you will
receive an email confirming your submission.
Abstracts must be submitted by 30 April 2008 and notification of
acceptance will be sent no later than 29 June 2008.
Submission
Abstracts must be submitted in English or French and the main body of the abstract must include:
- Title (concise and informative)
- Name of presenter author
- Presenter author affiliations
- Contact information for corresponding author, including email
- Body of abstract
Oral Presentations
PowerPoint presentations on CD are preferred.
Speakers must hand in their CD presentation to the speaker coordinator
who will be at the congress venue
- Keep the amount of information on each slide to a minimum
- Make the text, structures, and tables, etc. of a size such that they can be easily viewed from the rear of a large lecture hal
- Choose colours, especially in PowerPoint slides that are bold and do not clash
- Choose backgrounds that do not reduce legibility through poor contrast
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