Welcome to the website of the International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure (ICTL). We are proud to announce our second conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 5-8 May 2008.
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 delighted to announce that Professor Erik Cohen has agreed to be our Keynote Speaker for this event. Many of you will be admirers of Professor Cohen's classic works on tourism and social change, and this is a great opportunity for us to hear him speak on the topic of "The Wild and the Humanized: Animals in Thai Tourism".
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. Selected papers will be also published in an edited book.
Venue: Novotel Chiang Mai, 183 Changpuak Road, Sri Poom, Muang District, 50200, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Tel: (+66)53/22550 Fax (+66)53/ 225505.
Dates: 5-8 May 2008. Registration is from 4-6pm on the 5th May in the reception room.
Fees: 450 US dollars for regular participants; 225 US dollars for full-time postgraduate students. The fees include conference attendance, lunch and coffee for the duration, and one copy of the conference proceedings.
Hotels: Accommodation in Chiang Mai is plentiful and caters for all budgets. We recommend staying at the official conference venue, the Novotel Chiang Mai, which really is excellent value and good quality.
If you require any further information, please ring +66 873426894 or email info@ictlconference.com.
We very much hope to see you there.
Mark W. Neal, PhD & Colin J. Jones, PhD
