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NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION STUDY GROUP ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

NUMBER 9, JULY 1998

CHAIRPERSON AND EDITOR: C. MICHAEL HALL
Centre for Tourism, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel: +64 3 479 5477 (W), +64 3 479 8520 (Secretary), Fax: +64 3 479 9034
Email: cmhall@business.otago.ac.nz
web site: http://divcom.otago.ac.nz:800/tourism/


Notes from the Study Group Chair

This is my first Newsletter as Chair of the Study group and as our meeting in Estoril and the mid-point of the life of our Study Group draws near it is also time to reflect on future directions. Undoubtedly the Group has accomplished much in the last four years under the chairmanship of Professor Helleiner whose valued contributions and efforts on behalf of the Study Group will be greatly missed. However, it is also a time to reenergise the efforts and activities of the Group in light of the overall directions of the IGU and the global scientific community. Accordingly I highlight in this Newsletter the need for the Study Group to draw closer to the work of the IHDP (International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change), and the Industrial Transformation Group in particular. To this end Allan Williams and myself in consultation with a number of members of the group have progressed a research project in the area of tourism and migration which detailed below. Please note that this is the first of several such projects that we seek to develop. and which will be discussed at the meeting in Estoril and with members of the Study Group in coming months.

The next few years are therefore tremendously exciting in terms of the activities of the Group. Our membership base is increasing, out publishing activity is strong (especially the efforts of Alan Lew in developing the new journal Tourism Geographies which is co-sponsored by the Group), and we have several meetings over the next two years. I look forward to working with members in this exciting time.


IHDP THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL CHANGE (http://ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de:80/IHDP/)

Global Environmental Change is as old as planet earth. Physical, chemical and biological processes have been shaping and reshaping the earth's environment since its infancy 4.5 billion years ago. In recent time, however, humankind has been one of the major driving forces of change on our planet, including climate change, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution and desertification.

In turn, individuals and societies are also experiencing the impact of the changes in their natural environment upon their own daily social, economic and political situations. These impacts may include water and food shortages, natural disasters, health risks, conflicts about resources and massive migration from areas most severely affected by environmental change.

How do humans interact with the environment? What are the consequences? How can individuals and socie-ties mitigate or adapt to environmental change? How will policy responses to such changes influence present and future economic and social conditions? These questions lie at the centre of research on the human dimensions of global environmental change within the IHDP.

What are "Human Dimensions"?

Human Dimensions are the ways in which individuals and societies:

a) contribute to global environmental change;
b) are influenced by global environmental change; and
c) mitigate and adapt to global environmental change.

The goal of the IHDP and human dimensions research is to describe, analyse and understand the human dimensions of Global Environmental Change.

The need for research

Much research has been undertaken in this area in the last few decades, and Global Environmental Change (GEC) is now recognised as a priority issue worldwide by politicians, the media, the general public and the scientific community. These GEC issues, however, also represent extremely complex scientific, technical, political, economic and social questions. This has led to what is sometimes described as a growing crisis of "un-certainty" and to an increased risk of conflict and confusion among policy-makers, the public and the scientific community.

At the same time, there is increasing pressure to adopt policies to mitigate and adapt to environmental change. This has generated requests for more detailed and reliable data and information from the natural and social science communities in general and the human dimensions of global environmental change research community in particular. To this end, the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC), two of the major international non-governmental research networks of natural and social scientists, have initiated major programmes dealing with Global Environmental Change (i.e., WCRP, IGBP, IHDP and DIVERSITAS).

IHDP's Role

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) was originally launched in 1990 by ISSC as the Human Dimensions Programme (HDP).  The restructured IHDP is a full partner with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and DIVERSITAS. These GEC programmes focus on climatic, biogeochemical, socio-economic and biodiversity processes related to global environmental change. In February 1996, ICSU joined ISSC as co-sponsor of the IHDP.

IHDP is an international, interdisciplinary, non-governmental social science programme dedicated to pro-moting and co-ordinating research aimed at describing, analysing and understanding the human dimensions of global environmental change. In order to accomplish its goals, IHDP:

links researchers, policy-makers and stakeholders,

promotes synergies among national and regional research committees and programmes

identifies new research priorities,

provides a focus and new frameworks for interdisciplinary research, and

facilitates the dissemination of research results.

This strategy is based on a bottom-up approach which builds upon existing researchers and research results around the world. Particular emphasis is placed on expanding and strengthening the network of national human dimensions committees and programmes and on enhancing the IHDP's capacity to support them.

IHDP Science Projects

IHDP Science Projects are a key mechanism used to:

1) identify and generate new IHDP research activities in priority areas,
2) promote international collaboration, and
3) link policy-makers and researchers.

Four Science Projects currently receive the full support of the IHDP:

Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC, co-sponsored by IGBP)
Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS)
Institutional Dimensions of Global Change (IDGC)
Industrial Transformation (IT)

The IHDP also is actively involved in the work of START (System for Analysis, Research and Training), a joint WCRP/IGBP/IHDP programme. The START mission is:

1) to develop a system of regional research centres and networks of collaborating institutions;
2) to conduct research on regional aspects of global change;
3) to assess the impact of the regional findings, and to provide regionally important information to policy makers and governments;
4) to enhance scientific capacity in de-veloping countries by strengthening and connecting existing institutions and by training scientists;
5) to mobilise resources required to augment scientific capabilities and infrastructure in developing countries.

For further information contact:

International START Secretariat, 2000 Florida Avenue NW,Washington, DC 20009, Web: http://www.start.org; E-mail: START@dis.start.org

IHDP's organisational structure

IHDP is guided by a Scientific Committee comprised of scientists from different geographic and disciplinary backgrounds. Professor Eckart Ehlers was elected Chair of the Scientific Committee in 1996. The IHDP Constitution foresees the establishment of a Scientific Advisory Council, which is required to meet every three years to evaluate and assess the IHDP's activities. Its first meeting is expected to be held in 1999.

National Committees are an essential component of the IHDP's networking and research strategy, which advocates a bottom-up approach. There are currently over twenty National Human Dimensions Committees and Programmes at various levels of development worldwide. One of the top priorities set by the IHDP is to enhance the networking and collaboration of scientists working in the field of human dimensions. Its efforts are twofold: to promote and strengthen existing national committees and programmes, and to support the establishment of new ones.

The IHDP Secretariat has been located in Bonn, Germany since November 1996. The Secretariat, headed by Executive Director Dr. Larry R. Kohler, provides direct support to the Scientific Committee, National Committees, IHDP Science Projects and other research initiatives (e.g., an IHDP/START International Human Dimensions Workshop for developing country young researchers). Its also provides information services, such as the IHDP Update newsletter and the IHDP web page, facilitating the mobilisation of research funds and the maintenance of relations with international organisations, including the UN system.

For further information about the work of the IHDP, the Science Projects and the National Committees, please contact:

International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
Walter Flex Strasse 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany,
Tel.: +49 - (0)228 / 73-9050
Fax: +49 - (0)228 / 73-9054
E-mail: ihdp@uni-bonn.de

THE IHDP GROUP ON INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION (http://ohrid.cca.vu.nl/english/o_o/instituten/IVM/projects/research/ihdp-it/index.html)

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Industrial Transformation (IHDP-IT) is a new way of organising research, which aims at understanding the societal mechanisms and human driving forces that could facilitate a transformation of the industrial system towards sustainability. IHDP-IT seeks to integrate and stimulate co-operation among international and interdisciplinary scientists by establishing both a network and a research framework which can be useful for exchanging information, identifying priority research questions and, in the future, for acquiring funds for research.

The overall goal of research on Industrial Transformation is to understand the societal mechanisms and human driving forces that could facilitate a transformation of the industrial system towards sustainability, which in physical terms will require the decoupling of consumption and production, commonly denoted as industrial activities, from their environmental impacts.

The significant added value of research within this project is its integrative and multidisciplinary character which draws upon the dynamic interactions and mutual dependencies between the socio-economic, the technological / producer and the consumer domain, which have, so far, been studied almost exclusively as rather isolated factors.

Activities of  IHDP's project on Industrial Transformation-IT involve organising conferences and regional workshops, dissemination of information and finally the formulation of a Science Plan that outlines valuable contributions to new research questions in the field of Industrial Transformation.

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Open Science Meeting on Industrial Transformation as part of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) of Global Environmental Change Meeting Date and Place: February 25-26, 1999, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The IHDP's Industrial Transformation (IT) Project is designing a new research framework aimed at understanding the societal mechanisms and human driving forces that could facilitate a transformation of the industrial system towards sustainability. An extensive and inter-disciplinary network of researchers developed during 1996-97 by the IHDP research project on Industrial Transformation led to the establishment of a Scientific Planning Committee in October 1997 to prepare the Industrial Transformation Draft Science Plan. Seven regional workshops will be held in 1998 to assist in the preparation of the Draft Science Plan and to identify potential global and regional priority research projects.

The Open Science Meeting on Industrial Transformation (IT) will discuss the Draft Science Plan and a number of potential IT research projects. The meeting will bring together a wide spectrum of researchers such as economists, political scientists, econometricians, sociologists and psychologists involved in research on production and consumption systems, including the industrial ecology community, the marketing communities, as well as key actors from the private sector (strategic environmental management, product development), research funding agencies and policy community.

Plenary and parallel sessions are planned for both days. During the meeting the concept of Industrial Transformation research and the identified potential research projects will be discussed. Only a limited number of papers can be accepted and the number of participants is limited to 200.

Industrial Transformation Research

The overall goal of research on Industrial Transformation is to understand the societal mechanisms and human driving forces that could facilitate a transformation of the industrial system towards sustainability, which in physical terms will require the decoupling of consumption and production, commonly denoted as industrial activities, from their environmental impacts. Industrial Transformation research examines the interactions between physical, technical, economic, social and cultural aspects of industrial activities in relation to the natural environment. It involves the analysis of production and consumption patterns (over space and time) and their corresponding modes of organisation, technologies, material and energy transformations, environmental impacts, and the social and economic consequences of these impacts for the quality of life of individuals and societies.

The significant added value of research within this project is its integrative and multidisciplinary character which draws upon the dynamic interactions and mutual dependencies between the socio-economic, the technological / producer and the consumer domain, which have, so far, been studied almost exclusively as rather isolated factors.

Within Industrial Transformation three related fields of research can be distinguished:

• Macro-systems and the incentive structure, concerning the institutional and financial as well as the physical setting of the economic system.

• The production system, including the physical/technological as well as the institutional/organisational aspects of production at the firm level, such as Product Innovation, design and marketing, Life Cycle Analysis, Integrated Chain Management, Eco-Efficiency and Industrial Symbiosis.

• The consumption system, focusing on the role of consumers in decison making processes, the development of needs/preferences/’life-style’s in relation to social trends, relations between per capita income and environmental resource use.

 The Scientific Planning Committee has proposed to narrow the research field by developing a research framework based on the identification of a limited number of priority research projects within the following type of matrix:

The Comittee is working to identify a number of regional and global research projects that fit within this overall research framework on Industrial Transformation. The projects are defined in line with specific societal activities, such as food or energy production and consumption, which are to be analysed in view of facilitating a future transformation of these activities towards sustainability.

More information

Further information on the Open Science Meeting, the Regional Workshops and on IT research initiatives can be obtained from Pier Vellinga and Peter Mulder at IVM.
Tel: +31 20 4449515; Fax: +31 20 4449553; E-mail: pier.vellinga@ivm.vu.nl
Tel: +31 20 4449503; Fax: +31 20 4449553; E-mail: peter.mulder@ivm.vu.nl

TOURISM AND MIGRATION: NEW RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION An International Research Project of the International Geographical Union Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism

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Convenors: Allan Williams and Michael Hall

Background

A number of changes have occurred in recent years in the forms of production and consumption, which have resulted in changes in migration and consumption and in the relationship between these. The main changes can be expressed in terms of global-local relationships in production, shifts to various forms of more flexible production (requiring changes in both capital accumulation and the labour process), and the development of more flexible and internationalised forms of consumption, resulting in both the intensification of, and the emergence of new forms of, tourism and migration flows. While to some extent a response to changes in the nature of capital accumulation processes these new forms of mobility are also the outcome of changes in the cultural construction of leisure time and spaces. Moreover, the demographic and social changes brought about by these population flows contribute to reshaping the conditions for both production and consumption.

The growth of tourism has, of course, long been interdependent with that of particular forms of migration. Quite apart from the fact that tourism itself constitutes a form of migration, of varying duration, it has generated two distinctive flows of migration.

First, there is labour migration to provide the services demanded by tourists, particularly in areas of mass tourism where rapid and substantial growth in tourist numbers may have outstripped the capacities of local labour markets. The resultant labour migration generally assumes one of three forms:

• Unskilled labour to provide consumer and collective services at relatively low costs, which are essential for the competitiveness of resorts operating in highly competitive cost-led markets.

• Skilled managerial workers providing specialist skills that may not be available in the local labour market; intra-company labour transfers often structure their mobility.

• Migration to establish small-scale businesses, often serving niche markets (typically expatriate ones), and or being motivated by life style considerations.

 These migration flows are integral to the restructuring of labour markets in the recipient areas as they try to maintain competitiveness in the increasingly competitive international market for tourism services. It is not simply a matter of absolute labour supply, or of the role of migration in mediating labour costs, but also of particular types of skilled labour, in response to technology- and demand-led changes in production.

Secondly, consumption-led migration systems may develop symbiotic relationships with tourism flows, as part of the re-definition of the practices of consumption. This may assume several forms, depending on the duration of the migration, motivations and property relationships. The two migration streams are linked by the concepts of search spaces, informing decision-making. Some of the main components of consumption-led migration are:

• Investment in second homes, which implies a degree of commitment to the destination area (both for vacations and, possibly, for more permanent migration in the longer term). This also implies particularly property relationships with the civil authorities and the private sector in the destination area, which differentiate this from long-stay tourism.

• The growth of seasonal migration, for which there is a continuum stretching from long-stay tourism to genuine dual residence between the destination area and the area of origin.

• Permanent migration which typically occurs at the retirement or early retirement stage of the life course.

• Non-tourism led migration where the migrants are attracted by the quality of life in the destination area but are economically engaged in metropolitan economies to which they are linked by tele-working arrangements or some form of long distance commuting. They may have links to tourism through both the informing of search spaces and reliance on some of the services (such as air transport) developed for the latter.

 While some of these migration streams and their relationships to tourism have long historical roots, that can be traced back to at least the Grand Tour, others are of more recent genesis. They have all, however, been subject to significant changes in recent decades which have transformed their scale, geographical scan and their inter-relationships with tourism. The salient changes are inherently related to the emergence of new forms of production and consumption: Because of the above changes, there has been an increase in the scale of tourism-related migration, and an internationalisation of the patterns of mobility. This has yielded a series of social, cultural, economic and political issues for the individual migrants, for the host communities and for local, national and supra-national states, which hitherto have been little researched. Amongst these are: • the economic impacts of the redistribution of consumer expenditure, incomes and remittances;
• the reorganisation of labour markets;
• new social and spatial divisions of labour;
• the recasting of host-guest relationships, along new lines of gendered, racialised and class cleavages;
• nationality and citizenship rights;
• the demands on the collective services provided by local, sub-national and national states;
• the implications of tourism-related migration on the physical environment;
• the role of tourism-related migration in regional development, particularly with respect to innovation and entrepreneurship practices in rural regions; and
• issues of tourism-related migration within the context of sustainable development. While geographers are concerned with the underlying processes of economic restructuring and cultural change which inform the redefinition of tourism-migration relationships, they are also interested in the extent and ways in which their impacts are contingent on economic, social, political and environmental conditions in particular localities. In turn, these local conditions inform the unfolding processes of globalisation.

The proposed project therefore seeks to examine the above relationships between tourism and migration in a comparative international and intranational perspective. The convenors of the project therefore invite expressions of interest in participating in the project with the contribution of empirical and theoretical papers. Participants in the project will have the opportunity to meet at three forthcoming conferences:

a) at the AAG meeting in Hawaii in 1998 where panel sessions sponsored by the IGU Study Group will be conducted on reviews of production and consumption led migration in an international context;

b) at the joint meeting of the IGU Commission on Sustainable Rural Systems and the IGU Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism at Flagstaff, Arizona in October 1999 (www.geog.nau.edu/rural/); which will have a number of open sessions dedicated to the research project; and

c) at the IGU meeting in Seoul, Korea, in 2000 which will also feature a number of open sessions on the project.

It is anticipated that a combination of books and special editions of journals will be developed from this project. For expressions of interest please contact:

Allan Williams at A.M.Williams@exeter.ac.uk
Michael Hall at cmhall@business.otago.ac.nz


CONFERENCES

3RD. INTERNATIONAL PLAY BIENALE, Montevideo, Uruguay, Play Places, September 18 - 22, 1998 - The Physical Place: Where is it allowed to play? The Symbolic Place: What place does play occupy in our lives?

For more information, please contact::
"La Mancha" Research and Training on Play, Recreation and Camping. Maldonado 1677 C.P.: 11200, Montevideo Uruguay
Telephone 598-2-409-6399
Telefax 598-2-682-8649
E-mail: mancha@chasque.apc.org
 

GEOGRAPHY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE - West Virginia University Morgantown, WV October 30-31, 1998

Contact: Geography Graduate Student Conference
Department of Geology & Geography
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26505
TEL: 1 (304) 293.5603
e-mail Amy Pratt: ionmaker@msn.com; Eric Spears: espears@wvu.edu; OR Jay D. Gatrell: jgatrell@wvu.edu
 

'DEVELOPING ECOTOURISM INTO THE MILLENIUM'6TH ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ECOTOURISM CONFERENCE 1998 Margaret River, Western Australia 28 - 31 October 1998

More information on the Conference is available from: Janet Payton (Conference Convenor) and Mary-Lou Barry Telephone IDD+ (618) 9791 2000 Fax (618) 9791 2025 E-mail swdc@bis.net.au Web Page: http://www.bis.net.au/swdc
Or
Associate Professor Ross Dowling (Conference Program Coordinator) School of Marketing and Tourism, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup WA 6027 Australia Telephone: IDD+ (618) 9400 5891 Fax: (618) 9400 5840
E-mail: r.dowling@cowan.edu.au ECU Website: http://www.cowan.edu.au
 

WORLD LEISURE AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION CONGRESS
Sao Paolo, Brazil, October 26th - 30th.
If you want to know more about the Congress they have a Website at http:/www.sescsp.com.br/leisurecongress
 

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IASTE 98 Call For Papers, Sixth Conference, December 15-19, 1998 Cairo, Egypt - Manufacturing Heritage / Consuming Tradition: Development, Preservation and Tourism in the Age of Globalization

Contact:
IASTE '98 Conference
Center for Environmental Design Research 390 Wurster Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839, USA
Tel: 510.642.2896 Fax: 510.643.5571 Voicemail: 510.642.6801 E-mail: iaste@ced.berkeley.edu
 

ENTER '99 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY IN TOURISM - The tourism consumer in the new electronic marketplace - 20-22 January 1999 - Innsbruck Austria

Contact: Dr Dimitrios Buhalis
ENTER'99 Chairman
Dept of Tourism, University of Westminster 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS, United Kingdom
Phone: + 44 171 911 5000 (x 3112)
Fax: + 44 171 911 5171
Email: buhalid@wmin.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/Env/UDP/staff/buhalis
 

LEISURE EXPERIENCES: INTERPRETATION AND ACTION - AUSTRALIAN NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION LEISURE STUDIES (ANZALS) CONFERENCE 29-1 January/February 1999 Hamilton, New Zealand

Contact: Richard Pringle
Dept. Leisure Studies
University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
Tel: (64) 7 8384466 Ext. 6205
Fax: (64) 7 8384555
E.mail: richard@waikato.activity.nz
 

LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY: ORAL HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Oral History Society Annual Conference with the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, 15-16 May 1999
Offers of papers and other forms of presentation are invited for this interdisciplinary, international conference which will explore the relationships between memory and place and the contested meanings of diverse human and physical landscapes. The proposed conference themes are as follows:
• Memory and Place (place & identities, tradition & change, urban & rural, ownership & contested meanings, gender & cultural differences, 'coming in' & staying put)
• Protest (political / environmental movements, conservation & change, disputes & confrontations, rights & boundaries, contested accounts of arrival & ownership)
• Green Lifestyles (creating new societies & communities, buildings & camp sites, conflicting lifestyles, alternative ecologies, retreats & revolutions)
• Heritage (preserving the past, creating traditions, collecting & archiving, museums & exhibitions, public and participatory histories of place)
• Oral History and Development (using traditional knowledges in development, oral history for change, urban & rural, 'North' & 'South')

Prospective participants should send two copies of their proposal on a single A4 sheet including the following details: name, address, phone, fax and email numbers, title of presentation, format of presentation (see above), relevant conference theme/s, and a brief summary of the proposed presentation.
Proposals should be sent to Steve Hussey, History Department, Essex University, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, England, before 1 November 1998.
Email enquiries to Steve Hussey (husss@essex.ac.uk), Joanna Bornat (bornat@open.ac.uk) or Al Thomson (a.s.thomson@sussex.ac.uk).
 

GENDERED LANDSCAPES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATION OF PAST PLACE AND SPACE, May 31-June 1, 1999, The Nittany Lion Inn, State College, Pennsylvania

From site is derived insight?its character as diverse as the many ways of seeing and knowing place. Through investigating past sites and their connections with gender, we gain insight into the history of places as well as the powerful cultural forces that gave them form. The essential character of such investigation is broad, interconnected, and whole. The goals of the conference are to learn, explore, and share particular perspectives within a multi-disciplinary community and to initiate an ongoing dialog regarding issues of gender and past construction of place and space.

The conference will bring together scholars from many disciplines that study, create, and are inspired by issues of gender and landscape history: historians, geographers, landscape architects, art historians, urban historians, sociologists, artists, scholars of American and women?s studies, and others. Anyone whose discipline uses landscape history or gender to inform or guide his or her efforts should attend. A call for papers/panels will be mailed in August 1998, and abstracts will be due December 11, 1998.

Please bookmark the program Web site:
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/GenderedLandscapes/ This site will offer complete program information in the near future.

Contact: Roberta Moore, Conference Planner
The Pennsylvania State University
225 The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel University Park PA 16802-7002
Phone: (814) 863-5120
Fax: (814) 863-5190
E-Mail: ConferencefInfo1@cde.psu.edu
 

SUSTAINING RURAL ENVIRONMENTS: ISSUES IN GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION AND TOURISM 19 - 23 October 1999 - Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Purpose and Themes

The movement of people, money and ideas across space has never been more fluid than today. While much of this tends to be generated by and between metropolitan centers, profound impacts are also being felt in rural areas which have been heretofore protected by their very isolation.

This conference will examine the processes and impacts on rural environments of globalization and the movement of people between rural and urban places for permanent (migration) and temporary (tourism) purposes.  Although broad in scope, particular attention will focus on the following themes:

- The Rural-Urban Interface: Conceptualizing the ‘rural' and defining where and how it interfaces with the ‘urban', how this interface evolves over time, and the impacts of urban changes on rural places, including their use for tourism, retirement and alternative e-office purposes.
- The Regulation of Rural Land Use and Sustainability: Assessing how regulations at different geographic scales shape rural development and the role of individual and organizational agency in this process, including aspects of public land resource management for both economic and recreation uses.
- Entrepreneurism and the Selling of Rural Environments: Examining issues of sustainability as they support and conflict with entrepreneural activities, including tourism and the commoditization of rural landscapes and cultures, and resulting employment and migration patterns.
- Physical and Cultural Change in Rural Landscapes: Identifying the character and process of past and emerging rural landscapes, from wilderness areas to small communities, and how changing behaviors and values at national and global scales are creating influencing even the most remote rural environments.

The city of Flagstaff (pop. 55,000) is located at 7000 feet (2130 meters) at the base of the San Francisco Peaks and is the home to Northern Arizona University.  The Grand Canyon is 80 miles (130 km) to the north and the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations are nearby to the northeast.  Flagstaff is a scenic 2 hours drive (30 minute flight) from Phoenix, Arizona's international airport. (For more information visit: http://www.flagstaff.az.us/)

For the latest information on this conference, please consult the conference homepage at:
www.geog.nau.edu/igust/rural/
or e-mail the conference organizer to express your interest in attending and to ask questions:
Conference Organizer:
Alan A. Lew
Department of Geography and Public Planning, Box 15016
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA
Tel: 1(928) 523-6567; Fax: 1(928) 523-2275; e-mail: Alan.Lew@nau.edu

Conference Sponsored by:
- Geography of Sustainable Tourism Study Group, International Geographical Union (www.geog.nau.edu/igust/)
- Sustainable Rural Systems Commission, International Geographical Union (http://www.stratec.ca/igu_rural_systems/)
- Tourism Commission, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences
- Rural Geography Masters Degree Program, Department of Geography and Public Planning, Northern Arizona University (/)

Conference Committee:
- Duane Nellis, University of West Virginia, USA
- Valene L. Smith, California State University - Chico, USA
- Allan Williams, Exeter University, UK
 

COUNCIL of AUSTRLIAN UNIVERSITY TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY EDUCATORS (CAUTHE) Annual Conference: Peak Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Research, Feb 3-6 2000

This conference examines the recent achievements in tourism and hospitality research that will direct the industry and related academic research into the next millennium. All papers are welcome, but particularly in the areas of regional tourism, resort management and small business enterprises. The conference will take place in the only alpine campus in Australia, Mt. Buller, which is La Trobe University's newest campus.

Information from Professor Peter Murphy, School of Tourism and Hospitality, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. Tel: 61 3 9479 3770, Fax: 61 3 9479 1010; E-mail: p.murphy@latrobe.edu.au web page: http:www.latrobe.edu.au/www/l&m/tour&hosp.
 

IGU SUTAINABLE TOURISM LOCAL ORGANIZER IN KOREA FOR IGC 2000

Dr. Sangcheol Kwon will be the local organizer for the IGC meeting at Seoul, geography of sustainable tourism. Although not a specialist in that subject field, I will provide information and arrange support for the meeting. In fact, I and Korean geographers preparing the IGC meeting have several field trips including Cheju Island where I am located. (Note: Dr.Kwon will be attend the AAG-Honolulu meeting in 1999 to meet with Study Group members to discuss the IGC 2000 meeting.)

Sangcheol Kwon, Assistant Professor
Department of Social Education, Geography Major Cheju National University
#1 Ara-dong Cheju City, Cheju 690-756
KOREA
E-mail: kwonsc@cheju.cheju.ac.kr
Tel. +82-64-54-3234 Fax. +82-64-25-4053

MEMBERS NEWS

New Address Details: Jean-Michel Dewailly
Case 11, F 69676 BRON Cedex, FRANCE
Tel. 04.78.77.23.23, fax 04.78.77.24.26,
e-mail : Jean-Michel.Dewailly@univ-lyon2.fr.
Topics of interest : geography of tourism and leisure, theorically and empirically, in connection with environment and regional planning problems.
A (relatively) recent publication : Dewailly J.M. and Sobry C.(dir.), 1997, Récréation, re-création : tourisme et sport dans le Nord - Pas-de-Calais, Ed. L'Harmattan, coll. Tourismes et Sociétés, 304 p.

New Member: David Timothy Duval
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Environmental Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario, CANADA
M3J 1P3
(416) 736 54 18 (fax)
Email: duval@yorku.ca

Research area involves the interplay between ethnic identities and tourism development in the Eastern Caribbean (primarily the island of St. Vincent).

Chris Ryan: Change of Address
Tourism Programme
Centre for Management Studies
The University of Waikato
Private Bag 3015
Hamilton
New Zealand
e-mail caryan@waikato.ac.nz

Chris has left the Northern Territory University to return to New Zealand on June 1998 to take up a position at the University of Waikato. However he is currently undertaking 3 research projects that might be of interest to members and is hoping to have lots of data to analyse 'at leisure' in New Zealand. The first project is a continuation of a study of visitors to the Territory's National Parks. In 1997 a study was undertaken of visitors to Litchfield National Park; in 1998 a comparative study is being undertaken at Elsey Park. This is with Libby Sterling, a post graduate student who was formerly Visitor Monitoring Officer for the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. Libby has now moved to New South Wales to work at a new marine park. The second study is a continuation of work on aboriginal tourism undertaken at Katherine in 1997. In 1998 the area being studied is at Uluru and Alice Springs. This is a study of degrees of tourist interest in Aboriginal tourism. A paper has been submitted to Annals. The Katherine data is also now being reworked using structural equatations to help inform the current research activities. Finally, a study on crocodiles and tourism is being undertaken. This, with various colleagues, is investigating the crocodile tourism product of the NT from tourist attitudes to intrusion effects on saltwater crocodiles and effects on their territories. Any IGUST member who has experience of attaching radio transmitters to saltwater crocodiles will appreciate this study could be quite interesting.

Links: Tourism Management http://www.elsevier.com/

GIS decision-support systems for recreation activities: Karin Vogel
My name is Karin Vogel, an Agriculture student at Austral University in Valdivia, Chile. Actually, I am working in my thesis, using a GIS to create decision-support systems for recreation activities establishment in protected areas, so my interest is to obtain information and publications about GIS development in the context of parks and protected areas organizations in other countries I am also interested to have the address (specially e-mail address, if it is possible) of organizations or people, to contact with someone working with GIS, particulary with IDRISI or with whoever having an experience in implementation of GIS into management of national parks & protected areas, especially in tourism and recreation topics.
e-mail adress: kvogel@smtp.uach.cl

Robert Kaspar
After having won the Science Prize of the Austrian Olympic Committee for my PhD on the Development of Winter Sports Mega.Events towards the Environment. I worked in 1997 for the Salzburg bid committee (Olympic Winter Games 2006). Salzburg did not win despite excellent international chances. so I now work for the International Garden Exhibition 2000 in Graz, Austria as well as a head of the environmental department of the 1999 Nordic Ski World Championships. I had nearly moved to New Zealand early this year to join the Christchurch bid committee for the Winter Games 2006, but the Wellington government decided to bid for the Commonwealth Games instead!

New Member: Yu-Fai Leung
Yu-Fai Leung
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Starting May 1998) Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0324, U.S.A.
Phone: (540)552-2396 Fax: (540)231-3698
E-Mail: yfleung@vt.edu
URL: http://www.vt.edu:10021/Y/yfleung/

Despite my affiliation with a forestry department, I have a sustained and growing interest in the geography of recreation and tourism, particularly in protected and natural areas. I was a geography major for my first two academic degrees, and I have been a member of AAG Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group since 1992. As I plan to further develop my interests in environmental issues of nature-based recreation and ecotourism from a spatial perspective, I am very interested in joining the IGUST researchers to keep informed of their work and to participate in future IGUST activities. I look forward to your decision and information regarding this matter. Thank you very much for your consideration.

New Member: Miguel Novais Machado
Escola Superior Agrária de Ponte de Lima Refoios 4990 PONTE DE LIMA
PORTUGAL miguelnovais@esa.ipvc.nortenet.pt

New Member: Dallen J. Timothy
Dr. Dallen J. Timothy
School of HMSLS, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA
Tel: (419) 372-6902
Fax: (419) 372-0383
Email: dtimoth@bgnet.bgsu.edu

New Member: Miroslaw Klimkiewicz Miguel
A PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography, Jagiellonian University, Krakow with interests in sustainable tourism and biosphere reserves.
Miroslaw Edward Klimkiewicz
Jagiellonian University, ul. Golebia 24,
31-007 Krakow, Poland,
tel.:+48-12-4226875,
fax: +48-12-4221757
e-mail: klimkiew@adm.uj.edu.pl

Development Study Center Library and Rural Tourism and Recreation Resource Unit - Devoira Aurbach
Devoira Auerbach, Director of the Development Study Center Library and Rural Tourism and Recreation Resource Unit. Within the framework of the DSC library we have established a Rural Tourism Resource Unit specializing in "Grey of Fugitive" literature which raely comes under bibliographic control within traditional library systems.

The Unit contains some 5,000 titles of which some 70% may be defined as "grey:, i.e., plans, projects, strategies, policy statements, work reports etc. The remainder are academic papers, books and reprints. The documents are drawn from international, national, regional and local tourism authorities and organizations, academic institutions and commercials enterprises. Most of the documents are in English, with some in Spanish and Hebrew. They represent tourism activities in industrialized and developing countries. Whilst the initial emphasis was placed on tourism and recreation activities in the rural sector, we have enlarged the collection to include, industrial tourism, heritage and religious tourism etc.

A unique feature of the Unit is the "Ideas File for Entrepreneurs which covers several thousand brochures on individual tourism activities ranging from a Garlic Festival, Heritage Trails to a Pencil Museum and whatever might occur in between. The objective is to act as a reference source for the small scale operator in generating new operations. We would welcome collaboration and appreciate examples of activities being dealt with by the Group.

Devoira Auerbach,
Library Director,
Development Study Center,
POB 2355, Rehovot,
Israel 76122.
Tel: 972 8 9474111
Fax: 972 8 9475884
e-mail dsclib@netvision.net.il

Aliza Fleischer - Development Study Center

Aliza Fleischer is an economist and the Director of the Research Division at the Development Study Center in Rehovot, Israel as well as a lecturer in the Agricultural Economics Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. " I have been actively involved in research, planning and teaching activities related to general tourism issues and rural tourism in particular. For the past 8 years I have been working on the various components which make up rural tourism in Israel. My work was used by the Israel Ministry of Tourism to evaluate and monitor the emergence of rural tourism in Israel and to design the different policy measures to support it. Papers about it were published in Tourism Management, ATR and a chapter in a book. In addition, I have also done work on different issues of tourism in Israel, such as analysis of different market segments (seniors, pilgrims, ecotourism). Currently, I am conducting research dealing with the non-market value of tourism amenities (such as agricultural landscape and parks). I have also participated in tourism planning projects in Turkey and India as well as the Jordan Rift Valley and the Dead Sea, and acted as an advisor to tourism professionals from a wide range of developing countries". Israel offers a wide scope for tourism research especially with the events related to the year 2000 which will be a major attraction for pilgrimage or religious tourism. Additionally, there is scope for work on organizational development for tourism at the regional and local levels, entrepreneurship and the introduction of "incubators for small scale operators". I would welcome collaboration with other researchers on these or similar topics and would like to conduct a bi or trilateral research.

Dr. Aliza Fleischer
Development Study Center
P.O.Box 2355
Rehovot, 76122
Israel
Tel:+972-8-9474111 fax:+972-8-9475884
e-mail:dsc@netvision.net.il

Climate, bio-climate and tourism - Michael Fagence

First, there is a long preamble. About two years ago I sent out a request on a number of lists seeking help with input to a study of bioclimatology and tourism. The response was not high, and a recurring question seemed to be "what is bioclimatology ?". It seems as though there is an emerging field of study here, with cross linkages between the study of weather patterns and climate regimes with tourism activity. After 'a little help my friends' I was able to put together a reasonable paper on the influences of climate on tourism activity which was eventually published in a Springer-Verlag edition on Bioclimatology (1997). Since that time, and especially recently, I have fielded an ongoing stream of questions about the influence of climate on patterns of tourism, and types of tourism activity. There is an increasing flow of submissions to tourism and related journals about climate, bioclimate (which is at its most simple level, human responses to climate) and tourism. Whilst some of the literature refers to possible impacts of global warming on tourism activity (this seems to be the glamour topic) there is an emerging sub-set on other aspects of the interaction between climate and tourism, particularly (but not exclusively or even predominantly) focused on snow areas and tourism. There has been a substantial output on this topic, especially from Canadian sources.

Second, this is the begging message. Is there anyone 'out there' on this list who is conducting research on the climate/tourism interaction ? If so, I would be happy to act as a catalyst to collect names, contact addresses, research fields and topics for subsequent dissemination on this or other lists, or even directly in hard copy form. If anyone has run a literature and/or Internet search I would be pleased to hear from you.

Third, the present state-of-the-art seems to be that the climatologists keep themselves to themselves, publishing and exchanging information and their own advances in concepts, methods, techniques, and so on. In a parallel strand of intellectual xenophobia, tourism researchers are inclined - if they study climate at all - to take the superficial view that 'it's already out there, and we cannot influence it anyway' . There seem to be good basic reasons to cross-reference this research, and to benefit from the inter-disciplinary research which could flow, to the advantage of the separate research strands and to the tourism industry. Two examples may help open up the dialogue: the insurance industry is interested in climate patterns and facilitate insuring for/against certain weather conditions, and the resort industry is interested in the weather forecasting capacity especially in cyclone seasons. But, the hard information' seems not to be readily avialable. Hence, this rather long message.

If anyone is kind enough to respond to the begging message at #2, or to respond on the subject in general or even with specific examples, please reply to me directly (or via the list if you would prefer); but if you do so, please delete my message from the reply, otherwise there will be many receivers which will become clogged with long messages. I look forward to your help, and repeat my willingness to share the information.

Best regards
Michael
Michael Fagence
Department of Geographical Sciences and Plannng The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Q.4072, Australia Fax: 61-7-3365-6899
Phone: 61-7-3365-4103
Email: m.fagence@mailbox.uq.edu.auDate: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 19:14:41 -1000

TEACHING AND RESOURCES

Course Outlines

If you, or a colleague, teach a Recreation (Tourism, Sport, Leisure) Geography course, even if you are not in a Geography department, but by the nature of your education, provide a geographical (i.e., perhaps spatial?) view of leisure, PLEASE send me a copy of your course outline, reading lists, assignments and so forth. You can snail mail or e-mail, what ever is easiest for you. For a neat web page highlighting this call..... http://bondo.wsc.mass.edu/dept/garp/faculty/recgeog.htm

Rob Bristow
Geography & Regional Planning
Westfield State College
Westfield MA 01086
r_bristow@foma.wsc.mass.edu
(413) 572-5595
 

Collaborative Learning Working together in small groups - a teaching and learning video

Executive Producers: Jim Macbeth and Judy MacCallum

This video uses drama and documentary to explore key aspects of working together in groups, of accomplishing learning tasks collaboratively. You will meet Jessica, Tan, Helen and Dean and their tutor Diane. The students form a group to tackle an assignment on ecotourism. Each joins for different reasons and each brings different skills and knowledge to the task they face. While initially working at cross purposes, they eventually develop into an effective team.

It is fundamental to the accomplishment of learning tasks that groups understand the process and the dynamics operating as they set about reaching the group's objectives. This video and booklet provide a useful four part model for developing that understanding. The video can be used by teachers as a discussion starter to encourage students to develop this awareness of group processes but can also be viewed by individuals or groups as part of their own development.

The key issues in the video involve the recognition of four stages of group development, the importance of class working time for the groups, tutor facilitation of the process and printed materials for use by students. Understanding and utilising each of these will lead to improved group performance and increased student satisfaction with collaborative assignments.

This video was professionally produced using professional actors and is part of a series that also includes From Life to Learning and Critical Thinking in Context. A similar style and format was used for all three videos, including the inclusion of two of the actors in all three videos. A Users' Guide to the Video Collaborative Learning is included in the package and provides useful information about the video and its use in teaching and learning situations.

To order, please contact: Sue Senior 61 (08) 9360 2531 Fax 61 (08) 9310 8480
Teaching and Learning Center, Murdoch University, Murdoch, West Australia 6150
http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/asu/pubs/gen-pubs.html
 

ECoNETT site (http://www.wttc.org) has now been added to the list of links to www sites on the Study Group website

Tourism Research Links
The new Tourism Research Links page has found a more permanent home at:
http://www.tourism-montreal.org/tourism.htm (English version)
and
http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/tourisme.htm (French version)

I am happy to announce that I have partnered with Tourism Montreal to cooperatively expand the content and coverage of the Tourism Research Links page. The 700+ links have been categorized into Research, Industry, and Technology, with a new category called Niche Marketing, which has been derived from Tourism Montreal's extensive research reports. Each of these categories has been further subdivided. Your comments and suggested link additions should be sent to René Waksberg at rwaksberg@sprint.ca

René Waksberg
Tourism Consultant
rwaksberg@sprint.ca

Chantal Langelier
Assistant Director-Research , Tourism Montreal langelier.chantal@tourisme-montreal.org

Stephane Pipon
Manager-Information Technologies, Tourism Montreal pipon.stephane@tourisme-montreal.org

DEATH OF PROFESSOR GORMSEN

We are saddened to learn of the recent death of our dear colleague, Erdmann Gormsen, after a prolonged illness. He was a Professor of Geography at the University of Mainz, Germany until his retirement a few years ago. Always active in the affairs of the International Geographical Union, including chairing of one of its commissions, Erdmann Gormsen was an extreemly valuable full member of the I.G.U. Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism. His studies of tourism in Latin America, China, and many other parts of the world gave him an exceptionally broad perspective on the subject. He participated actively in the Study Group and in the commissions and working groups that led up to its establishment. His advice and lobbying behind the scenes were instrumental in the decision of the I.G.U Executive Committee to create the Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism. At the many meetings he attended, he was outspoken in his commentaries on the business of the Study Group and on the work of his peers. His fluent command of several languages enabled him to help others understand the proceedings, a task which he always undertook willingly. More than anything else, Erdmann Gormsen will be missed for the jovial good cheer which invariably accompanied his good, practical sense and sound judgement.

-Fred Helleiner

The Institute does not intend to set up a memorial fund, but his family wished instead of contributions to give a donation - if anyone wants to do it - to the project "Schularbeit in Ladakh, Northern India", which is to be paid to Herrenhuter Missionshilfe, bank account: EKK Stuttgart, BLZ 600 606 06, account-no. 0 415 103.

JOURNAL NEWS

TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES An International Journal of Tourism Place, Space and Environment www.geog.nau.edu/tg/

*Tourism Geographies* will begin publication on a quarterly basis starting in 1999 by Routledge (U.K.). The journal will provide a peer-reviewed forum for the presentation and discussion of geographic perspectives on tourism and tourism-related areas of recreation and leisure studies. It will explicitly incorporate and integrate the physical/environmental sciences and place/regional perspectives in both pure and applied research through the writings of human and physical geographers and related professionals, including landscape architects, urban and regional planners, anthropologists and other social scientists, and environmental scientists and managers.

*Tourism Geographies* will publish blind reviewed Articles (up to 7,500 words), Regional reports and Case Studies (up to 5,000 words), and Research and Methodological Reports and Commentaries (up to 2,500 words). Each issue of *Tourism Geographies* will feature the following main sections:

- Space - providing a forum for research articles, commentaries and discussion on the development, theory and method of tourism research from a spatial perspective. Articles reviewing the state of the art in tourism geography, as well as those forging new territory will be featured.

- Place - featuring regional reports and case studies that relate to the real world experience of tourism. Also featured will be maps and tourism statistics that will be of use to both practitioners and scholars. Practitioners are particularly encouraged to contribute to this section.

- Environment - addressing the limited research on tourism and the environmental sciences, this section will publish work that enhances understanding of the physical environmental processes related to tourism.

- Literature Reviews - will go beyond the scope of simply reviewing the contents of a book by comparing several books of on related topics and to consider the current literature and debates in tourism.

- News of Organizations and the Profession - focusing on events and people in disciplinary organizations that are affiliated to, and supportive of, the goals of *Tourism Geographies*. The journal maintains informal affiliations with the AAG Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group; the IGU Geography of Sustainable Tourism Study Group; and the recently established Tourism Working Group of the Institute of British Geographers. Other interested organizations should contact the journal's Editor-in-chief:

Alan A. Lew
Northern Arizona University, USA
alan.lew@nau.edu

Subscription information and notes for contributors are available from the journal's website at:
www.geog.nau.edu/tg/
or by contacting Dr. Lew

Papers are now being accepted for review. In addition to the editor-in-chief, potential authors may also obtain information from, and submit papers to, the journal's regional associate editors:

C. Michael Hall
University of Otago, New Zealand
cmhall@business.otago.ac.nz

Shaul Krakover
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel shaul@river.bgu.ac.il

Alan M. Williams
University of Exeter, U.K.
A.M.Williams@exeter.ac.uk

Inquiries regarding Literature Reviews should be submitted to Wes Roehl
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
roehl@ccmail.nevada.edu
 

JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Journal of Historical Geography, an international forum for research in historical geography, is interested in receiving manuscripts that examine environmental topics. The editors are willing to consider work by historians that have a strong geographic orientation. Studies that ask geographic questions or provide geographic analysis of environmental change, human impacts on the environment, or other related topics are invited. The journal is edited jointly in the United Kingdom and North America with and editorial board representing many countries and diverse perspectives. The journal aims to interest an international and interdisciplinary readership. Articles relating to the Americas and East Asia should be sent to:

David R. Meyer E-mail: DRMeyer@brown.edu
Department of Sociology
Box 1916
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912

The journal's table table of contents can be visited at the Historical Geography Specialty Group's home page:
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/histgeo/histgeo.htm
 

NEW JOURNAL: JOURNAL OF ABORIGINAL TOURISM, published by Aboriginal Tourism Authority, POBox 1240, Station M, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2L2. Telephone: (403) 261-3022, fascimile (403) 261-5676. Email: tourism@istar. URL: http://www.aboriginalnet.com
 

CALL FOR PAPERS: MEGA SPORT EVENTS AND TOURISM

A Special Issue of the Pacific Tourism Review Volume 4(1), 2000
Special Issue Editor Dr DAVID WEAVER, Griffith University - Gold Coast, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

This special issue of the Pacific Tourism Review will present papers on the Olympic Games and other Mega Sport Events (i.e., Soccer World Cup) in relation to Tourism. These games attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Games directly as well as draw hundreds of millions of viewers to televisions. Many television viewers may in fact cancel or delay their holidays in order to watch these Games and Events. Besides the immediate economic, and sociocultural impact of the spectators on the destination venues, major aspects of these mega events include marketing and financing issues. Mega events often serve as image makers and short term financial losses are often accepted as a trade-off for the increase in destination awareness.

Possible topics of papers suitable for this issue may include but are not limited to:

Increased destination awareness
Economic costs and benefits
Sociocultural and environmental impacts
Planning and management
Long-term impact on visitation levels
Olympics and the host comunity
The politics of venue decision-making or Geopolitical aspects
Global impact on tourist flows
Athletes as tourists
and other issues and topics ..

The general rules for submitting a paper are:

Submission of a manuscript represents a certification on the part of the author(s) that it is an original work, and that neither this manuscript nor a version of it has been published elsewhere nor is being considered for publication elsewhere.
The issue will publish two main classes of manuscripts: full length articles of approximately 5,000 words (20-25 pages double-spaced); and shorter articles/viewpoint articles/research notes of about 1,500 words (5-10 pages double-spaced).
References, citations, and general style of manuscripts should follow the style in the American Psychological Association's Publication Manual or refer to the PTR's Instructions for Authors inside the back cover of the Journal.

DEADLINE

Deadline for expression of interest, including a one to two page abstract, is 30 September 1998. Three copies of completed papers must be received by 31 January 1999. Papers will be reviewed using double-blind review procedure. Names of the author(s), affiliation(s), address(es), contact information, and title of paper should appear on a separate cover sheet, not on the paper itself

Abstracts should be submitted to:

Dr. David Weaver
School of Tourism & Hotel Management
Griffith University - Gold Coast
PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre
Queensland 9726
Australia
Fax: ++61-7-5594 8507
e-mail: D.Weaver@bhm.gu.edu.au

 


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