3rd Annual International Conference on Tourism and Hospitality Research (THoR) 2014

Con­fer­ence Highlights

Best Paper Awards and Best Stu­dent Paper Awards will be con­ferred at the con­fer­ence (in order to qual­ify for the award, the paper must be pre­sented at the conference).

Panel Pro­pos­als are invited for sub­mis­sion to the THoR 2014. A min­i­mum of three papers cen­ter­ing on a spe­cific topic will be accepted for sub­mis­sion under Panel Cat­e­gory.

Open­ing Address

Prof. the Hon. Dr. Stephen Mar­tin – Mem­ber, Board of Gov­er­nors, Global Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy Forum (GSTF)

Keynote Addresses

• Prof. Ian Eddie – PhD FCPA, Direc­tor, DBA Pro­gram, South­ern Cross Busi­ness School, South­ern Cross Uni­ver­sity, Australia
• Assoc. Prof. Stanislav Ivanov – Vice Rec­tor for Aca­d­e­mic Affairs and Research, Inter­na­tional Uni­ver­sity Col­lege, Bul­garia: “Explor­ing the ‘Glob­al­i­sa­tion – Des­ti­na­tion Com­pet­i­tive­ness – Tourism’s Impact on Eco­nomic Growth’ Nexus – A Golden Tri­an­gle or Self-​Deception?“

Pub­li­ca­tion Opportunities

Pro­ceed­ings: The Con­fer­ence Pro­ceed­ings (Print ISSN: 2251 – 3426, E-​periodical: 2251 – 3434) will be indexed by EBSCO, Cross­Ref, Pro­Quest, Ulrich­sweb and will be sub­mit­ted to Sco­pus, Sci­enceDi­rect and Cabell’s Direc­to­ries amongst oth­ers, where applicable.

Jour­nal: Depend­ing on their impor­tance, orig­i­nal­ity, qual­ity, rel­e­vance and other edi­to­r­ial con­sid­er­a­tions, eli­gi­ble research arti­cles will be invited for pub­li­ca­tion in the GSTF Jour­nal on Busi­ness Review (GBR) (Print ISSN: 2010 – 4804, E-​periodical: 2251 – 2888) which is indexed by EBSCO, Cross­Ref, Econ­Biz, Pro­Quest, Ulrich­sweb and Cabell’s Directories.

Book: Selected authors will be invited to con­tribute book chap­ters in “Busi­ness Review: Advanced Appli­ca­tions Vol. 2″ to be pub­lished by GSTF. The book will be edited by Dr. Farid Shi­razi, EIC of GBR. He is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor & ITM Learn­ing Edge Fac­ulty Advi­sor in Ted Rogers School of Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Man­age­ment Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity, Toronto, Canada.

Con­fer­ence Topics

Key Areas of Focus (but not lim­ited to):

• Sus­tain­able Tourism
• Eco-​Tourism
• Med­ical Tourism
• Her­itage Tourism
• Edu­ca­tional Tourism

Related inter­est areas include, but are not lim­ited to:

• The Busi­ness of Tourism
• Tourism and Hos­pi­tal­ity Management
• Under­stand­ing Tourism and Hospitality
• Tour/​Event Oper­a­tion and Management
• Leisure Man­age­ment
• Hotel and Restaurant/​Beverages Management
• Health and Well­ness Tourism
• Vis­i­tor Management
• Home Host­ing
• Pub­lic Sec­tor Approaches to Tourism and Hos­pi­tal­ity Development
• Tourism and Immigration
• Mar­ket­ing Approaches/​Strategies in Tourism and Hospitality
• Account­ing and Finance in Tourism and Hos­pi­tal­ity Industry
• Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy in Tourism and Hospitality
• Human Resource Man­age­ment in Tourism and Hospitality
• Cli­mate Change, Adven­ture, High Risk and Accidents
• Vol­un­teer Tourism
• Adap­tive Analy­sis Techniques/​Research Methods
• Cus­tomer Care and Ser­vice Qual­ity in the Tourism and Hos­pi­tal­ity Industry
• Tourism Secu­rity and Safety