Call For Papers

The conference will focus on a broad range of topics related to tourism, hospitality and gastronomy. The conference organizers invite papers, abstracts and presentations relevant to the theme of the conference “Creating Opportunities Through Innovation: The Future of Tourism and Hospitality in Asia”. Papers are also invited in the sub themes of:

• Anthropology of tourism
• Anthropology of food & gastronomy
• Architecture & design in tourism, hotel & food services
• Crisis management
• Cultural Studies
• Customer experience
• Development processes
• Economic impacts
• Education and training
• Environmental resources & impacts
• Food studies and food security
• Finance
• Hotel & foodservice engineering
• Human resources
• Innovation
• Marketing
• Mobility
• New forms of tourism (e.g. volunteering tourism, space tourism, virtual tourism, social tourism etc.)
• New markets
• New methodological approaches
• Product development
• Public sector
• Real estate & investment
• Regulations & management
• Rural tourism
• Safety & security
• Service quality
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Sociology of food
• Sociology of tourism
• Strategies, processes & benchmarking
• Sustainable & responsible tourism practices
• Technology
• Tourism policies
• Tourist behaviour
• Travel trends & flows
• Recreation and sports

Who Should Attend?

• Academics and educators in tourism/hospitality fields

• Managers of hotels/restaurants/tourism businesses
• Trainers in tourism/hospitality/restaurant fields
• Tourism/hospitality researchers and industry consultants
• Interregional organisations with interest in tourism/hospitality industry
• Administrators of tourism/hospitality management educational programs
• Tourism/hospitality/ restaurant industry executives and representatives of multinational firms
• Financial institutions and tourism industry investors
• Tourism policy makers and national tourism organisation directors
• Students in tourism/ hospitality management