Thesis/dissertations: Open only for graduate students to reflect the summary of their thesis or dissertations in terms of the development of hypotheses and methodology and showing the way how it may contribute to the literature. In addition to graduates currently enrolled, those who will be graduated until 1st January 2008 are also encouraged to submit an abstract. This category gradually gains much broader attention from young scholars from one conference series to another.

Research papers: Open both for graduates and faculty members who are encouraged to submit their regular conceptual or empirical papers together. The graduate student should be present at the conference to present this paper that will be co-authored with a faculty member or multiple members. The authors are free to investigate any subject field they have enough knowledge, experience or research interests. This category was introduced in the third series of the conference held in May 2006. Click here for the Instruction for Contributors

Interdisciplinary papers: Open only for those faculty members who have a background in a different discipline, but have the willingness to expand their research interests into the tourism discipline. The paper should be written by multiple authors and each author should represent a different non-tourism discipline, but the paper should focus upon any aspect of tourism research. This category is newly introduced in order to pinpoint the interdisciplinary characteristics of tourism research. Click here for the Instruction for Contributors.