International Conference of Tourism:
“Ecotourism Destination Management for Small Islands in Adapting Climate Change Challenges”
EXTENDED REGISTRATION: 25 April 2011
Center for Tourism Studies UGM
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, April 27th – 28th, 2011
Deadline of Abstract Submission: March 31TH, 2011
Working language: English
BACKGROUND
Tourism is a major economic activity for Pacific Island countries. It can be seen from the statistic data that shows high number of jobs in tourism activities. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) noted that tourism have been encouraging the growth of travel agent and provide 100 million jobs in 21 countries in Asia Pacific. Furthermore, World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) predicted that tourism would increase the number of job in 25% that means open the opportunity for 30 million workers. In fact it assigns the reasons for Asia Pacific countries to enhance the productivity in the sector of tourism through increasing the tourism contribution in the economic. In globally, World Tourism Organization (WTO) pointed out that the number of international visitors in Asia Pacific countries was 182 million in 2007, which increase to become 184 million in 2008. In addition, in particular for Pacific countries the number of visitors in 2007 was 11.2 million and 11.1 million in 2008 (WTO, 2009).
Through the concept of ecotourism the actions to promote special interest tourists (ecotourists) are needed. A long with the increasing of awareness of tourism practitioners one need to have better understanding, knowledge and learning from best practice in order to obtain insights of the better ecotourism management and development in particular for governments and private sectors. Furthermore the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Indonesia will conduct the International Conference of Ecotourism, title: Answer the Challenge of Eco-tourism in Asia-Pacific”
CONFERENCE SUB THEME
The sub theme of the Conference are including:
1) Geostrategy and Geopolitic
2) Ecotourism Product and Market
3) Culture and Social of Small Islands in Tourism
4) Climate Change and Disaster Management
5) Small Island Development and Policy
SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
- Please submit only the abstract by March 31th, 2011 (in MS Word) by email attachment to sem.int.puspar@gmail.com with attention to “Rindrasih Puspar”. The abstract should not exceed 500 words in length, and should be organized according to the following standardized content:
– Paper title
– Author address and the corresponding author
– Objective
– Methodology
– Preliminary finding
– Potential contributions to the literature (ecotourism, disaster, community, etc.
- Abstract received by the deadline will be immediately reviewed by a team of reviewers. The notification of acceptance will be announced on April 5th, 2011.
- Submission of full paper will be invited after the abstract has been accepted. All full papers received will be reviewed by the reviewer’s team. The reviewed papers will then be acknowledged in the conference proceeding as peer reviewed. The paper should not exceed 10 pages of A-4 paper size, double space. The notification of selected papers to be presented on April 20th, 2011.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Dead line for submission abstract | March 31th, 2011 |
| Notification of acceptance/rejection the abstract | April 5th, 2011 |
| Deadline of full paper submission | April 14th, 2011 |
| Notification of selected papers to be presented | April 20th, 2011 |
| Deadline Observer registration | April 21th, 2011 |
| Conference date | April 27 – 28th, 2011 |
REGISTRATION FEE
Will be informed
VENUE
The conference will be held in Yogyakarta- Indonesia, date 27 – 28 April 2011
GENERAL PROGRAM
Day 1: International Seminar (27 April 2011)
In class presentation
Day 2: Field Trip (28 April 2011)
Field Trip
INQUIRIES
Rindrasih
(+62 274 564138 – Cell Phone: +62 8122619817)
sem.int.puspar@gmail.com or puspar@ugm.ac.id
SECRETARIATE
Center for Tourism Studies (Puspar)
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Kompleks Bulaksumur Blok J-3 Yogyakarta 55128
www.puspar.ugm.ac.id
Indonesia
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