Myths of Tourism

Conference venue: Zadar, Croatia
Period: May 9-12, 2013
Deadline for submitting abstracts: Oct. 15, 2012

Challenging various myths of tourism, scholars and researchers from different disciplines have agreed to meet to discuss tourism as an global industry in nature. The main questions that we will try to answer are: Why is tourism not an industry? How global is tourism? How many myths of tourism still exist? Have tourism researchers themselves contributed to creating some additional myths of tourism? How effectively have researchers from different disciplines been solving certain challenges that exist within tourism - both from the researchers’ and the practitioners’ focuses? How successfully do we disseminate and implement the results of research? Is theory still lagging behind practice? Who pulls the strings of tourism development?
 
The keynote speakers are:
- Julio Aramberry, Hoa Sen University;
- Chris Cooper, Oxford Brookes University;
- Graham Dann, Finnmark University College;
- William C. Gartner, University of Minnesota;
- Bob Mckercher, Hog Kong Polytechnic University;
- Boris Vukonič, University of Zagreb.

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The abstracts have to be up to 500 words. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Full name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers should be included. All abstracts and final papers must be e-mailed as MS Word document, in proofread English. All abstracts and final papers will be blind refereed by at least two reviewers.

Prof. Nevenka  Čavlek
University of Zadar

tel.: ++385 23 345-028
fax: ++385 23 311-540
e-mail: tourism@unizd.hr