Ninth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies –Liverpool John Moores University

Ninth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies –Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
19th to 21st June 2024
Liverpool, United Kingdom

ABOUT US
Founded in 2015, the Tourism & Leisure Studies Research Network is brought together to explore the economic, cultural, and organizational aspects of tourism and leisure. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
https://tourismandleisurestudies.com/about
--------
CALL FOR PAPERS
https://tourismandleisurestudies.com/2024-conference/call-for-papers
Place: Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland and Online
Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces.
Dates: 19-21 June 2024
--------
SPECIAL FOCUS
Tourism, Leisure and Change: Transforming People and Places
Tourism and leisure have always been linked to change; both as agents of change and as constantly changing activities. Tourism and leisure, then, are at once an external force that can be responsible for transforming places and people's lives while simultaneously being subject to external forces that require them to adapt. The power for tourism and leisure to "transform" and be "transformed" needs us to be vigilant about what is being "transformed," by whom, for what purposes, and with what implications. We invite you to visit Liverpool to discuss how tourism and leisure practices "transform" people and places and how people and places "transform" tourism and leisure.


--------
CONFERENCE THEMES
Theme One – CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY TOURISM
Theme Two – CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY LEISURE
Theme Three – TOURISM AND LEISURE INDUSTRIES
Theme Four – CRITICAL ISSUES IN TOURISM AND LEISURE STUDIES