The 2nd Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing & Management Conference, Corfu, Greece, 31.05.-03.06.2012 is hosted and co-organized by: the Department of Tourism Management of the Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki in Greece   the Department of Business Administration of the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece   the School of Hospitality Business Management of the Washington State University in the USA   the Research Institute for Tourism of the Hellenic Chamberof Hoteliers   The conference will take place the 31st May to 3rd June 2012 at the Grecotel Corfu Imperial hotel, ideally located by a golden beach in a private peninsula at the island of Corfu in Greece. Corfu is an established tourism destination well-known for its cosmopolitan style, rich gastronomic appeal, and vibrant night-life. This challenging conference will include a state-of-the-art program comprising of: a quality Scientific Research Track with double-blind refereed paper presentations an innovative Doctoral Colloquium for PhD researchers cutting-edge keynote speakers and roundtables from the hospitality and tourism industry, the academia and the public sector remarkable social activities, including a gala dinner in a palace, excursions and field tours…

Conference Theme Nothing in today’s chaotic tourism, travel and hospitality environment stays the same long enough… Exploiting recent marketing and management advances is a significant challenge for all stakeholders in the private or the public sector and has been strongly linked with success. The search for success through exploiting advances in management and marketing is always with us, the world is changing constantly, and the impacts of change are critical for tourism, travel and hospitality. Success may generate even more advances, both at macro-environmental and micro-environmental level. Advances can be small-scale or large-scale. Advances in hospitality, tourism and travel can also be seen as a constant revolution, having an impact on political, social, cultural, technological and economic environments. Any stakeholder in tourism, travel & hospitality, and any industry practitioner, educator or researcher, is facing vital questions like: How to exploit advances? How to shape advances? How to manage advances? How to optimize advances? How to survive with advances? How to teach advances? How to research advances? If you are looking for answers to these questions, then make sure that you will be in Corfu island in Greece for the 2nd Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing & Management Conference in May-June 2012… If you think you can provide answers to the above questions, then, again, you should come to Corfu island in Greece and tell us all about it at the 2nd Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing & Management Conference in May-June 2012!

Submission of Abstracts & Papers

The research track of the conference will be exploring the overall theme of “Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing & Management”, and will focus on a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to) the following:

• Marketing
• Management
• Human Resources
• Education and Training
• Information Technology and e-Business
• Finance & Economics
• Service Quality
• Operations Management
• Leisure
• Sports & Events
• Catering, Restaurant, Food & Beverage
• Hospitality
• Tourism Planning & Development
• Destination Management
• Regional Development
• Alternative Forms of Tourism
• Impacts of Tourism
• Sustainable Development
• Environmental Issues and Climate Change
• Crisis Management
• Transportation & Travel
• Airlines
• Gastronomy and Wine Tourism
• Heritage and Culture Tourism
• Religious Tourism
• Gay and Lesbian Tourism.

Submitted abstracts (between 250 & 400 words, plus indicative references) should be relevant with the overall conference theme and at least one of the conference topics, should be written in English, and should be submitted in time (see bellow for “important dates”). All contributions must be original (i.e. not been published elsewhere), follow academic writing, structure and methodology. Submissions will be blind-refereed by at least two anonymous reviewers who will decide if the proposed abstracts will be accepted or not. Acceptance of an abstract does not automatically lead to acceptance of the relevant final paper; following the acceptance of the abstract, the author(s) will be provided with specific guidelines for the submission of a full paper, and then all submitted full papers will be refereed again by at least two anonymous reviewers who will decide if the final paper will be accepted or not.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 16th of October 2011.

Please submit abstracts by e-mail (as Word document attachments) to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Download the detailed Call for Papers