Theme 1: Methods, Models, and Practices
How to connect conceptual foundations of tourism and leisure to the social and natural sciences and back?
Living Tensions:
- Subjects of History – Legacies of Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Practices
- Considering Scale and Frame – International, National, and Regional Tourism
- Diversity of Meanings – Navigating Cultural Sustainability and Heritage Development
- Visions of Progress – Management, Planning and Policy Interventions
- Participant and Observer – Integrative Approaches to Inquiry, Method, and Practice
- Theoretical Contributions – From Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Fields to the Social and Natural Sciences
Theme 2: Participation, Access, Impacts
How do the practices of tourism and leisure reveal consequential impacts of everyday life?
Living Tensions:
- Whose Leisure? – Inequalities in access to leisure time and facilities
- Who Counts? – Stakeholders in the tourism ecosystem
- In Search of the New – Emerging Markets, Community Impacts
- Lived Realties – Changing Patterns and Cultures of Consumption
- The Business of Travel and Tourism -- Human resources and talent management, global employability
- Volunteerism – leisure / work, opportunity / exploitation
- Recognizing Common Spaces – Ecological Footprints, Biospheres, and Eco-Spheres
Theme 3: Communicating Experience
What are the forces that shape the communication of experiences in time and space?
Living Tensions:
- Beyond Place-Based – Virtual Tourism, Online Experience, Digital Culture
- Visual Vectors – Media, Technology and Visitor Experience
- Leisure Spaces – Social Media, Online Interaction
- More Than Images –Journalism and Writing
- Framing Authenticity – Location, Service, Product Identity, and Branding
- Collective Experience – Festivals, Art and Creative Gatherings
- Cultures of Care – Considering Hospitality in Context
Theme 4: Future Practices
In what ways must we consider new approaches, concepts, frameworks, to promote new research, models, and practices?
Living Tensions:
- Long Term Planning– Contesting “Financial Years” and “Instant Gratification”
- Ethical Busines Models – Social Economies, Platform Cooperatives, Land Ownership
- Managing Change – Crisis management, risk and disaster management, business continuity
- Evaluation and Measurement – Education and Training for the Tourism and Leisure Industries
- Fostering Diverse communities – Culturally sensitive, Gender equity, ability access
- Environmental Tourism – Rural, Remote, Agrotourism, Eco-Tourism
- Demographically Defined Tourism – Children, Youth, Family, Retirement, Disability, Gender, LGBT Tourism