TOURISM SESSIONS
at the

INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS

3-7 July 2006 

Brisbane, Australia

Call for Papers

Sponsored by the
IGU Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change Sessions
UGI Géographie du Tourisme et des Loisirs et Changement Global

IGU 2006 Brisbane will focus geographical attention on critical physical and human processes driving global change. The IGU Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change (C04.16) will organise several sessions to take place at the main congress. The overall objective of the Commission is the development and application of an internationally comparable research program on the relationships between tourism, leisure and global change in geographical contexts. The Commission’s specific objectives are to:

(1) communicate the role of tourism and leisure as a major factor which both influences and is influenced by global change;

(2) further develop the concept of sustainability as applied to ‘tourism’ and ‘leisure’ with respect to the concept of global change;

(3) communicate the importance of understanding a broad range of processes that affect the relationships between tourism, leisure and global change, including the natural environment, political, and socio-economic processes;

(4) foster research that incorporates the notion of the inter-relatedness of structures and processes in tourism and leisure, through a variety of linked spatial - international, national, regional, local and the individual, and temporal – short term and long term (inter and intra generational) – scales.

(5) communicate the results of the research by members of the Commission to various academic, industry and policy arenas in order to influence policy in an effective and appropriate manner.

The commission especially invite papers in the following themes but they are not limited to:

In addition, there will be a joint session with the IGU Commission of Marine Geography:

Registration and abstract submission

Registration for the IGU 2006 Regional Congress 3-7 July is accessible via the conference website: www.igu2006.org

All abstracts to the main congress, including the Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change, should be submitted online via the conference website: www.igu2006.org. Please indicate at the appropriate box that your abstract is intended for an inclusion in the Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change sessions. See more information from the conference website.

Important deadlines

24 February 2006: deadline for receipt of abstracts for the main congress sessions.

24 February 2006: ‘Super Early Bird’ registration closes

More deadlines, important dates and information: see the conference website: www.igu2006.org and/or attachments.

We look forward to meeting you in Brisbane

Yours sincerely
Jarkko and Michael

Professor Jarkko Saarinen
Chairperson of the IGU Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
Department of Geography
P.O. Box 3000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, FINLAND, EUROPE
tel. +358 8 553 1716, email. jarkko.saarinen@oulu.fi
http://www.oulu.fi/geography/staff/professors/jarkko_saarinen.html

Professor C. Michael Hall
Head of Department
Department of Tourism, School of Business, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 3 479 8520 (Secretary), email. CMHall@business.otago.ac.nz
www.otago.ac.nz/business