Welcome to the website of the International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure (ICTL). We are proud to announce our third conference in Bangkok, Thailand, from 6-9th July 2009.
This year we are delighted that Professor John C. Groth of Texas A & M University, U.S.A. will be presenting the Key Note Speech on the topic of "Perceived Value, Decision Thresholds & Tourism: Insights, Speculations, & Potential Research".
The overall aim of the conference is to provide a lively forum for academics and professionals to meet and exchange interesting new research and ideas in an informal, interdisciplinary setting.
We are now accepting abstracts for papers in any area related to tourism and leisure, but we particularly encourage critical and interdisciplinary papers in the areas of eco-tourism, space tourism, women in tourism, theories of tourism, sex tourism, exploitation, phenomenological approaches, tourism and the environment, health tourism, tourism and risk, developments in the travel industries, ethnographies of tourist attractions, tourism and globalization, sports studies, tourism and the life-course, ethnographies of leisure, and papers that address the cross-over between tourism and leisure theory and research.
Please email contributions to: papers@ictlconference.com.
All submissions will be refereed, and accepted papers will be included in the official conference proceedings, which will have an assigned ISBN number.
Venue: We are very pleased to be holding the conference at the Ramada D'MA, Bangkok, Thailand, an excellent hotel in the center of the city. The Ramada is offering special room rates for participants:
Dates: 6-9th July 2009. Registration is from 4-6pm on the 6th July in the reception room.
Fees: 575 US dollars. The fees include conference attendance, lunch and coffee for the duration, and one copy of the conference proceedings.
Hotels: Accommodation in Bangkok is plentiful and caters for all budgets. We recommend you stay at the conference venue, the Ramada D'MA at the special conference rates.
If you require any further information, please ring +66 (0)873426894 or email info@ictlconference.com.
We very much hope to see you there.
Colin J. Jones, PhD & Mark W. Neal, Ph.D.
