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Call for Papers


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: IGU 2011 Valparaiso, Chile

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

International Geographical Union
Pre-Conference Symposium 2011

Tourism and Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges for Conservation Geography

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile
10?13 November 2011


Tourism and Heritage: Challenges for Conservation Geography

Heritage is an important resource for tourism. Globally tourism
activities based on the attractiveness of different kinds and scales
of heritage resources are growing which provides opportunities for
development, socio-economic benefit creation, conservation support,
education and learning, for example. Heritage tourism, including
cultural, ethnic and indigenous tourism, can also empower local
cultures and people and support cultural identities and traditions.
However, growing tourism and the use and creation of heritage sites
can also produce challenges and conflicts that relate to over
utilisation of heritage sites, power issues in participation and
cultural representations and misuse of heritage related socio-cultural
meanings and values in tourism. Therefore, tourism geographies,
conservation geography and heritage tourism development call for
further discussions, research and critical thinking on sustainable
heritage management.

The overall purpose of this symposium is to discuss the geographical
aspects of heritage tourism, including cultural and natural heritage
and related issues, and focus on the opportunities and challenges
based on growing tourism interest in heritage. A special aim is to
stimulate discussions on conservation geography and tourism studies.

Potential themes for presentations include, but are not limited to:

-heritage tourism
-cultural tourism
-ethnic and indigenous tourism
-community-based tourism
-urban heritage and tourism
-tourism and heritage conservation
-heritage and tourism impacts
-heritage management
-conservation geography and tourism
-governance of heritage in tourism development
-sustainable tourism and heritage resources
-cultural landscapes and tourism
-wilderness and tourism
-local identities, heritage and tourism
-cultural representations in tourism
-biodiversity and geodiversity in heritage tourism
-globalisation, heritage and tourism
-power issues, politics and environmental justice in tourism
-education/edutaiment and heritage tourism
-innovations in heritage tourism
-new techniques in tourism and conservation geography

Call for Papers: Submission and Review Process

The symposium language is English. Abstracts (limited to 300 words)
should be send to Jarkko Saarinen (jarkko.saarinen@...) and Alan
Lew (alan.lew@...) by 15 August 2011. The abstracts will be
reviewed. Because of time and room restrictions the conference
committee (the Commission Board and Local Organisers) is only able to
accept a maximum of 40-45 paper presentations.

Important dates:

Abstract submission 15 August 2011
Notification of acceptance before 22 August 2011
Registration and payment 30 August 2011
Full symposium papers 30 September 2011

Abstract format: please follow the format

Abstracts can only be submitted in English
Abstracts should contain no more than 300 words
Font: Times New Roman, size 12pts with single spacing
Title should be typed in UPPER CASE letters in bold and left aligned
Author/s names and institution/s and full address should be in
upper and lower case
Presenting author's name should be underlined
Include four to eight keywords
No endnotes, references or frames/tables/figures are acceptable
Please note: Faxed abstracts will not be accepted

SEE more information from the attachements


Welcome to Valparaiso!


Jarkko Saarinen Alan Lew Rodrigo Figueroa Sterquel
IGU Commision Chair IGU Commission Vice-Chair Local Organiser

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