Deadline for submission of abstracts: Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Thematic areas of interest
1- Moving from cultural tourism to creative tourism. 2- Creative tourism opportunities and challenges for artistic and cultural organizations. 3- Looking forward: challenges for creative tourism until 2030. 4- ICT in planning and implementation in creative tourism. 5- Creative tourism and rural development. 6- The role of creative tourism in the sustainability of territories. 7- Creative tourism networks: lessons and future perspectives. 8- Entrepreneurship and empowerment of local communities. 9- Participatory creative tourism projects: engaging communities. 10- Alternative/inclusive approaches to creative tourism. 11- Promoting intercultural dialogue through creative tourism. 12- Legal and institutional frameworks for creative tourism. 13- Creative tourism project incubation and development approaches. 14- Creating new co-experiences with tourists. 15- From offering workshops to developing creative tourism strategies. 16- Leading trends in marketing and communication in creative tourism. 17- The world of specialized media and tourism agents. 18- Sharing problems and solutions in creative tourism. 19- Quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigating creative tourism. 20- Artist travellers, artistic residencies, and creative tourism.
- Name of the authors. - Position/title of the authors. - Organization/Institution. - Department. - City. - Country. - Email of the authors. - Title of presentation. - Abstract (250 words). - Key theme(s) of presentation/proposal. - Brief bio of presenter(s), including position/role of each authors (e.g., researcher, professor, architect, doctoral student, artist, town planner, etc.) (max. 250 words).
Possibilities of publication: We would like to inform you that we have some possibilities of publication of the best papers in three special issues of Journals to be published in 2019:
1. Special issue in “Emerging and Future Trends in Creative Tourism”, to be published by January 2019 in the “Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research”. Q1 (Scimago) and impact factor: 2.646, indexed in Scopus and in Web of Science. The norms of the publication can be found in http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jht
2. Special issue in “Creative Tourism” to be published by May 2019 in the "Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais"(Portuguese Journal of Regional Studies), indexed in Scopus and Econlit. The norms of the publication can be found in http://www.apdr.pt/siterPer/EN/submeterEN.html
3. Special issue in “Criatividade e Turismo na Contemporaneidade”, to be published by September 2019 in the “Revista Iberoamericana de Turismo – RITUR”, indexed B1 in Qualis/CAPES. The norms of the publication can be found in http://www.seer.ufal.br/index.php/ritur
If you are interested in publishing your work, please send us the full paper until 30th June.