(ANNOUNCEMENT)
INDIAN TOURISM CONGRESS
Third International Conference
On
“REGIONAL TOURISM – TRENDS, CHANGES AND CHALLENGES IN SOUTH ASIA”
At
Colombo, Srilanka
(June 22-26, 2011)
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Tourism Ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) have decided to form an association comprising of tour operators of all its member countries to globally promote South Asia as a single tourism brand. The decision was made at the last SAARC tourism ministerial meeting held in Kathmandu middle of January 2011.
Currently, about 10 million tourists are visiting SAARC countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — while the annual global movement is around one billion tourists. The region’s share of the tourism revenue is only 10 billion US dollar out of one trillion businesses from global tourism.
This meeting of tourism ministers also discussed the possibility of launching joint marketing campaigns, softening visa regime, giving access to cross-border driving licenses and increasing inter-SAARC movement by air by the national flag carrier of each country.
There is no doubt that tourism has emerged as one of the most promising industry. Even WTTC has predicted a huge growth for tourism in South Asia in the current decade. In view of the contribution of tourism to development of economies, strengthening of culture, cementing of international relations and enhancement of environment, it is the duty of tourism experts to come up with strong academic data base for the tourism planning in the South Asian region.
India being the biggest partner in the tourism business of South Asia is supposed to take the responsibility of tourism development in the region. Since there is a dearth of research on South Asian Tourism, and to fill this gap, Indian Tourism Congress (Group of Indian Tourism Academics) has understood its responsibility and hence planned to come up with a conference on very contemporary theme of Regional Tourism in South Asia.
This present conference on Regional Tourism – Trends, Changes, and Challenges in South Asia is dedicated to address a wide vista of tourism related issues that rightly acknowledge the importance of the regional tourism, further appreciating the changes in the industry in form of innovations.
The present conference will try to examine the potential that clearly exists for tourism development through innovations in South Asian region. In particular, discussions will try to figure out the future tourism on the basis of addressing contemporary practices, trends and innovations. Conference will also try to identify the opportunities for tourism development in light of challenges ahead.
INDIAN TOURISM CONGRESS
Indian Tourism Congress (ITC) is a non-political, non-commercial organization of tourism academicians. It was formed in 2002 by group of leading tourism academics with the purpose to enhance the standard of teaching and research, further to promote its orderly growth and development needed to cater tourism industry.
OBJECTIVES
MAIN THEME
Regional Tourism – Trends, Changes and Challenges in South Asia
THEMATIC AREAS
Note: Above list of thematic areas is not exhaustive one. Related research would also be highly appreciated.
WHO CAN ATTEND?
The conference is aimed at providing a meeting ground for the Intellectual and Professional experts/ resource base in tourism. It welcomes for participation, all of the following:
CONTRIBUTION
Persons interested to participate in the conference are welcome to contribute their research papers/ research notes/ case studies/ brief research notes on the themes or related subjects with specific recommendations for discussions in technical sessions. Abstract of maximum 300 words in MS-word format (letter size 12 point, Times New Roman font) should reach by 15 April 2011 on the following address: news.tourismcongress@gmail.com
1. Timetable for Submissions
Submission of Abstract: by 15 April 2011.
Authors have to submit their full-length papers in the following format by 15 May 2011.
2. Format for Papers
All papers must be consistent in format and layout as follows:
Papers must start with a title page but showing only:
Title: Not more than ten words – bold centred 14 point Arial
Author(s): Name, position, organisation – bold centred 12 point Arial (2 lines each author)
Contact Details: Full address, phone, fax, email, web site (if any) – centred 12 point Arial
Authors Bio-data: Authors should provide their biographical details, not more than 100 words.
Keywords: Up to five keywords to be provided for indexing, cataloguing and classification purposes
There should be no author identification after the title page. The page following the title page should show only: Title, then the abstract within the paper, then the main text
Main Text: Minimum 3,000 maximum 6,000 words – including tables, figures and references – single-spaced
– All photographs should be in High Resolution (More than 200 dpi) JPEG format.
– Authors must try to fit in all the tables in the end of paper.
Page numbering: All pages should be numbered in footer in the bottom centre of each page
Headers: Please leave empty so that we can add the conference title, date and location to every page
Citations and References: Harvard style.
References in the text should be cited by the author’s name and year of publication in brackets e.g. (Bansal, 1999: 22).
Where there are two or more references to one author for the same year, the following form should be used: (Bansal, 1999a), (Bansal, 1999b).
Where references include three or more authors the form (Bansal et al., 1999) should be used.
A full list of references including all authors in alphabetical order should be given at the end of the paper. References should conform to the following convention:
Gautam, P. and Kulshreshtha, S. (2010) Hospitality Education. In S.P. Bansal (ed.) In Search of Hospitality. New Delhi: Concept Publisher, 276-292.
Barron, P. and Prideaux, B. (1998) Hospitality Education in Tanzania: is there a need to develop environmental awareness? Journal of Sustainable Tourism 6(3), 224-237.
Bansal, S.P. and P. Gautam (2007) Sustainable Tourism Development. New Delhi: Indus.
Software package: MS Word
Paper size: A4 (21cm x 29.7cm)
Portrait
Spacing: Single, one blank line between paragraphs, no indents
Font: Arial size 11, justified
Margins: Top: 2.54cm
Bottom: 2.54cm
Left: 2.54 cm
Right: 2.54 cm
Headings: Capitals, bold, left margin
Secondary Headings: Lower case, italics, bold, left margin
Third-order Headings: Lower case, bold, indent
3. Content of Papers
Papers should demonstrate critical rigour and make clear their contribution to knowledge. They should also state their implications in relation to the theme of the conference, and their contribution to one or more of research, education, policy or practice
4. Publication of Accepted Papers
Prior to the conference, Indian Tourism Congress plans to bring out a publication of all research contributions for the conference in the shape of a book by an international publisher. It is desired that research papers should be submitted well in time and strictly as per the guidelines.
The presentation should be prepared using Microsoft PowerPoint. The presentation will then be copied onto a CD Rom and will be ready for you to present at your allotted time. No more than 15 PowerPoint slides should be included covering background, aims, methodology and findings.
CONFERENCE CONTACTS
| SR. VICE PRESIDENT Prof. Sandeep Kulshreshtha Head-Academics, Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (An Organisation of Ministry of Tourism, Government of India) Govindpuri, Gwalior (M.P.) 474 011 Tel: 0751 2345821-22 Fax 0751- 2344054 +91 98262 14448 (Mobile) |
SECRETARY GENERAL Prof. S.P. Bansal Director, Institute of Vocational (Tourism) Studies Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla (H.P.), India, 171005 Telefax- +91 177 2633251 (O) +91 177 2841389 (R), +91 98160 41389 (Mobile) |
For any query please contact at: news.tourismcongress@gmail.com, itc@tornos.in
June 14, 2011 at 11:27
Good morning Professor Sandeep.
Could you please give details about the International conference schedules for each day for our information.