From: list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org [mailto:list-owner@mail.atlas-euro.org] On Behalf Of Antti Honkanen
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Dear All,
Please see the information below.
Wishes, Antti
6th Advances in Tourism Marketing (ATMC) Conference,
8.-10. September 2015, Joensuu, Finland
Tourism engagement: co-creating well-being
Call for papers
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2015 (extended abstract with max 2,000 words)
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Christian Grönroos, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Prof. Bo Edvardsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Dr. Melanie Smith, BKF University of Applied Sciences, Hungary
Our Call for papers is under the following banner:
Two widely held convictions have emerged as the practice of Tourism matures in the 21st century. Firstly, the wellbeing of tourists, destinations, and operators is paramount. The management of a destination's competitive advantage must become sustainable, while the tourist deserves the best memorable experiences possible.
Secondly, tourists are maturing and becoming more assertive (e.g., Pearce & Packer 2013 ). They create their own experiences by activating their own networks and resources (Gnoth & Jaeger 2007). They easily find their way around to and from their destination, and have become savvy decision-makers. Smart and Internet technology allow tourists to rebalance the traditional information asymmetry between operator and tourist. Instead, they now turn up at destinations and often know more than the operator, about opportunities, prices, facilities, and competitors.
The first challenge therefore is, what is wellbeing, how is it constructed as a process and a state, for tourist, destination and operator? How does it relate to quality, satisfaction, recreation and happiness? And what does this mean for the development of sustainable practices in the development and management of comparative and competitive advantages?
The second challenge asks, what can tourism operators do to assist tourists in their creation of experiences and how can they become co-creators of value? In other words, how can operators and destination become a valuable and valued part of tourists' experiences? What are the challenges beyond merely functional facilitation? Although memorable experiences of recreation, self-consolidation, flow, learning and happiness have been identified as the most important benefit of holiday tourism, what is the operator's role in their construction?
Exploring and identifying the dimensions of co-creation and wellbeing, the ATMC 2015 in Joensuu Finland (8.-10. September 2015), seeks to define tourism engagement for the 21st century. For only with true engagement can value be created and shared.
In addition, we also particularly welcome paper submissions addressing issues such as:
Co-creating well-being tourist experiences
Well-being and tourist destination
Communicating wellbeing in tourism
Entrepreneurship in wellbeing tourism
Marketing tourism places and spaces
Tourist behaviour
Sustainable tourism and marketing
Community based tourism
Value co-creation in tourism
Submission of extended abstracts (max 2000 words incl. references) by 31st of January 2015.
Paper submission is open at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmc2015
WELCOME TO JOENSUU
Abstracts should be submitted using EasyChair online submission system. Submit your papers at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmc2015. Abstracts should follow the IMRAD concept (Introduction, Methods & materials, Research and results, Discussion). For detailed call for papers visit http://uef.fi/en/atmc2015/abstract-submission.
Qualifying papers (e.g. upon recommendation of the advisory board) will be invited for publication as an edited book due by an international publisher. The selected papers of previous conferences have already appeared in a series of book proposals by Elsevier, Routledge, Goodfellows, Cambridge Scholars, and Emerald.
For inquiries about the conference please contact professor Raija Komppula [raija.komppula[at]uef.fi).
To stay updated on the conference please join our group in Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/atmc2015/
We look forward to seeing you and your colleagues in this astonishing part of Finland in order to make new friendships and networks and enforce the existing ones.
ATMC Advisory Board
Juergen Gnoth, University of Otago, NZ
Metin Kozak, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
Alan Fyall, Bournemouth University, UK
Luisa Andreu, University of Valencia, Spain
Sonja Sibila Lebe, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Antónia Correia, University of Algarve, Portugal
Raija Komppula, University of Easter Finland, Finland