2nd Nordic Doctoral Colloquium in Tourism and Hospitality Research

The Nordic Society of Tourism and Hospitality Research in collaboration with University of Akureyrí are pleased to announce the 2^nd pre-conference doctoral colloquium for doctoral students in tourism and hospitality management.

The colloquium, which will take place immediately prior to the Nordic Tourism Research Symposium 2005 provides doctoral students in tourism with an outstanding opportunity to discuss their dissertation research with other doctoral students and leading academics in this field. All topics and methodological approaches within the broad field of tourism consumption will be considered. This year’s topic, tourism experiences is an empirical domain uniting disciplinary fields, such as consumer behaviour, marketing, and social anthropology.

The colloquium will be held from Sunday September, 18 until Thursday, September 22, 2005. It will mostly proceed in thematic tracks based on topical and/or methodological angle of participants' work. Students will discuss their work in roundtable sessions (one-hour presentation) with their fellow students and with track faculty experts. Plenary/keynote sessions will feature Nordic scholars in this field, such as Lena Mossberg, Can-Seng Ooi, Steve Milne, Reidar Mykletun and Szilvia Gyimóthy.

TRACKS

Students can submit proposals for one of the two track profiles, based on the traditional division of the field in the major academic journals.

EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT: includes all work conducted from a managerial perspective in any functional field of tourism: including tourism policies, host contexts, international destination branding and cultural consumption, etc.

CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR: includes all work conducted from a consumer perspective, and can be theoretical or related to any of the functional fields in tourism: consumption psychology, advertising, behavioural modelling.

The final number and content specification of tracks will depend on the number and nature of the accepted proposals. Track faculty names will be announced soon.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREDITS

Interested doctoral students should register (and add the required documents) by email to Guðný Pálína Sæmundsdóttir no later than August 15, 2005. Besides doctoral students, other researchers may participate. The number of participants will be limited to create a stimulating environment. The selection among the applicants will be conducted by the colloquium faculty. The submission procedure is closed.

Candidates should submit a four-page summary of their doctoral research, outlining the research problem against the existing literature, discussing the methodology and showing some initial empirical results. Doctoral students at all stages could benefit from participation. All outstanding proposals will be accepted, and we want to encourage especially the senior students to submit, who have already completed at least part of their empirical work. Please note that your name and contact details should appear on the summary.

Candidates should also submit a Curriculum Vitae.

The admitted proposals in each topical track will be made available to all participants in the corresponding topical track to allow everyone to prepare the discussions. The colloquium will be held in a collaborative, open and friendly atmosphere. In respect to this philosophy, participants are required to attend the entire colloquium. All participants will receive a certificate of attendance worth 6 ECTs (4 Swedish credit points), upon successful completion of the colloquium. Please notice that you are expected to read about 1000 pages of related literature as well as to author an 8-page essay after the venue.

COLLOQUIUM FEE AND REGISTRATION

The Colloquium fee is 2500 DKK (ca. 26750 ISK), which includes:

participation to the doctoral colloquium
accommodation for four nights at Hólar University College dormitories
evening dinners
minibus transfer from Reykjavík Airport
a complimentary copy of the recently released antology “Experiencescapes” by Tom O’Dell (ed.)

Payments can be made either by bank transfer of credit cards (Visa or Eurocard/Mastercard/Access). For payment details, please contact Guðný Pálína Sæmundsdóttir, the convenor of the 14th Nordic Symposium (gudnys@unak.is)

By accepting our invitation, you commit yourself to attend the Colloquium. Cancellations will not be reimbursed unless a valid reason will be given which will be discussed with the Colloquium co-chairs. It is also crucial to maintain interactions among the same set of participants throughout the Colloquium. As such, it is important that you do not opt out of sessions during the Colloquium.

Registration is required for students to participate in the Colloquium.

Registration to the Nordic Tourism Research Symposium :
NB. The Colloquium and the Symposium, although linked, are two separate events, with each one its participation fee. For students accepted to the Colloquium who want to stay for the Symposium, a 50% reduction will be offered. (The symposium fee is ca. 3200 DKK, exl. accommodation). The deadline to register to the Symposium is 15^th August 2005.

For registration and more information, please contact the Symposium’s convenor

Guðný Pálína Sæmundsdóttir

Email: gudnys@unak.is

Tel:460-8934

Ferðamálasetur Íslands

Norðurslóð

600 Akureyri

http://www.fmsi.is

TIME AND LOCATION

The seminar will be held at the Hólar Univeristy College in Hjaltadal, ISLAND.

Adress: Hólar Agricultural College
551 Sauðárkrókur, Iceland

Tel: +354 455-6300, Fax: +345 455-6301

www.holar.is

Transfer from Reykjavík to Hólar

Please inform us about your flight arrival times upon registration, so that we can arrange the minibus transfer schedules from Keflavík International Airport, Reykjavik City Center and Hólar.

In case you wish to take public coach transport all the way to Hólar, there are regular buses leaving from Reykjavik at 8 a.m. in the morning and 17 p.m. in the afternoon. The bus ride takes about three hours.

Please note that the Colloquium will start on September 18 with dinner and will finish on September 22, after lunch.

Program

A detailed programme as well as a literature list will be announced on this webpage soon.

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