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Tourist destinations worldwide are facing a growing number of
challenges in developing, managing and marketing their products in a
competitive and rapidly-changing environment. Not only do destinations
need to appeal to new audiences, but they increasingly need to
re-invent themselves to ensure repeat visitation. This conference seeks
to develop new perspectives on these challenges which affect not only
traditional sun, sea and sand destinations, but a growing range of
different destination types, including cities, rural areas, cultural
centres and leisure and entertainment complexes. The aim is to bring
together tourism professionals and tourism academics to exchange ideas
on issues related to developments in the theory and practice of
developing and managing tourism destinations.
The 2007 ATLAS conference is also a practical
exercise in repeat visitation. A decade after the first ATLAS
International Conference in Portugal in 1997, ATLAS will be revisiting
Viana do Castelo, providing repeaters and first-time ATLAS delegates
with the opportunity to review a decade of change.
The ATLAS International Conference 2007 is being
organised by ATLAS and the Tourism Laboratory of the Polytechnic
Institute of Viana do Castelo (Portugal).
Abstracts for presentations are invited on the following themes:
- Trends in destination development
- Challenges in destination management
- Destination governance
- Destination branding
- Destination marketing
- Generating repeat visitation
- Determinants of destination attractiveness and repeat visitation
- Culture, cultural events and destination revitalisation
- The emergence of new travel markets
- Changing patterns of domestic and international tourism
- Visitor consumption and its components
- Causal factors of regional marketing advantage
- Cross-cultural aspects of destination marketing
- Destination marketing education and curriculum development
Keynote speakers
Expected keynote speakers include:
| Carla Almeida Santos |
Co-director, Tourism Lab for Economics and Social Behavior Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Cristina de Azevedo |
Commission for Coordination and Development of the North of Portugal |
| Eugenio Yunis |
Chief of the Sustainable Development of Tourism Department, UNWTO |
| Richard Butler |
Strathclyde University, UK |
| Salvador Anton |
Tarragona University, Spain |
| Representative of Tourism of Portugal |
(not confirmed) |
All abstracts will be subject to double-blind review
by at least two members of the scientific committee. Acceptance of a
submission will be based on: theoretical and empirical significance;
methodological soundness; relevance to the theme of the conference;
technical competency; and logical clarity. The official language of the
conference is English.
Abstracts should be submitted via e-mail attachment to ATLAS (
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no later than May 31, 2007 and should include author's name,
institution, contact address/e-mail and title. Abstracts (approximately
300-500 words) should indicate background, theoretical/ practical
implications, methods and/or data sources, and indicative findings of
the paper. The title should be no more than 12 words. Up to 6 keywords
should be provided. Authors should also indicate clearly which theme(s)
of the conference their proposed paper relates to. Abstracts not
clearly related to the theme of the conference will not be accepted.
Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged and decisions on acceptance
made and provided no later than June 30, 2007.
| Abstract submission: |
May 31, 2007 |
| Notification of acceptance: |
June 30, 2007 |
| Conference: |
September 5-8, 2007 |
| Full paper submission: |
December 30, 2007 |
Full papers will be included in the conference
proceedings to be published. Outstanding papers will be published by
tourism journals, including the Journal of Heritage Tourism (ed. Dallen
Timothy, Arizona State University, USA), the Journal of Tourism and
Development (ed. Carlos Costa, University of Aveiro, Portugal), and the
World Journal of Tourism, Leisure and Sport (ed. Razaq Raj, Leeds
Metropolitan University, UK). Selected papers will be published in both
English and Portuguese languages in separate thematic volumes.
| Carlos Fernandes |
Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal |
| Frances McGettigan |
Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland |
| Roger Vaughn |
Bournemouth University, UK |
| Alexieva Iordanka |
University of Food Technologies, Bulgaria |
| Jonathan Edwards |
Bournemouth University, UK |
| Xosé Solla |
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Greg Richards |
TRAM-Tourism Research and Marketing, Spain |
| Julie Wilson |
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain/University of the West of England, UK |
| Tânia Kapiki |
T.E.I. Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Jorge Costa |
Institute for Tourism Planning and Development, Portugal |
| Carlos Costa |
University of Aveiro, Portugal |
| Daniela A. Jelincic |
Culturelink/IMO, Croatia |
ATLAS Special Interest Groups (SIGs) will be running parallel sessions during the conference:
- Cultural Tourism Research Group
- Gastronomy and Tourism Research Group
- Tourism SME´s Research Group
- Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Research Group
- Backpacker Research Group
- Policy Research Group
- Tourism and Socio Cultural Identities Research Group
- Business Tourism Research Group
- Spa and Wellness Tourism Research Group
- Mass Tourism Research Group
- Tourism and Disaster Research Group
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