Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 23. April 2021, 15:57

ATLAS Special Track 2
Engaging in meaningful research and action for climate change and tourism: the role of scholars
ATLAS SIG Climate Change and Tourism

Which will take place at the

ATLAS Annual ONLINE conference 2021

Tourism 21: Re-building Tourism – Continuities and Changes

September 7-10, 2021

Track convenors
Ioanna Farsari, Dalarna University, Sweden (ifa@du.se)
Liliana Carvalho, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Martine Bakker, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Climate change is increasingly becoming a topic of attention within tourism industry and tourism scholar community. Although an increasingly proliferating research topic, research has focused on industry’s and entrepreneurs’ perceptions; impacts and adaptation measures in destinations; or tourists perceptions and travel behaviour. Although the need for transformative changes in the system has drawn research interest, little research has addressed the transformative nature of tourism research and education for climate change. Transformative approaches enable self-reflexivity, researchers’ identities, acknowledgement of diverse interests and tensions and often take whole systems approaches enabling conventional as well as disruptive methodologies.

With this special track we would like to draw attention to these aspects and invite for discussions around research on climate change and tourism and reflectivity over the role of the scholars in climate change and tourism: What is relevant research for us?  How can we contribute with relevant results? How can we communicate the results of our research? What is relevant research for the industry and destinations?  How can we engage into it? How can we minimise the gap with the industry? What about our role as educators on the topic?

This special track wants to become a forum to advance our understanding of divergent perspectives, and explore creative and innovative ways in researching, implementing and communicating on the intersection between climate change and tourism. The aim is to stimulate innovation, map research interests, and stimulate collaborations for future research projects and publications. Rather than only communicating research results, it aims at forwarding and creating opportunities for young and senior researchers to meet and collaborate.

We particularly invite contributions around, but not limited to:

• New themes or topics research which advance our understanding of climate change and tourism
• New methodologies in researching climate change and tourism
• The controversies and tensions in advancing climate neutral travel and tourism
• The role of covid in transforming us (tourists, scholars, industry, stakeholders) in terms of our understanding and/or behaviour towards climate change
• Discuss innovations in research around tourism and climate change in the new normal

The track is looking for the following submissions:

• Non-traditional abstract
• Statement/question (that will serve also as a title for the presentation/abstract)

The non-traditional abstract could be the description of an ongoing or recently accomplished research or a positioning discussion followed by a statement/question which would be discussed further in the workshop. The statement/question should come as a result of the abstract and something that you would like to explore further. Therefore one research project can invite for more than one participants based on what they would like to focus and explore further.

We aim for a non-conventional special track where presentations will be kept short and pointing to the statement/questions to be discussed on a workshop.

You can submit your contribution (before May 1^st 2021) in the ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM

You can find more information on the Special Tracks and the conference at:

http://www.atlas-euro.org/Default.aspx?TabID=333