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2026 Conference

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2026

Advancing the Social Justice Agenda in Tourism and Events: Towards a more Human-Centred, Inclusive and Hopeful Future

(in)EQUALITIES: Social Justice, minority groups and participation in tourism and events

BARRIER-FREE: How can we make tourism and events more accessible?

INCLUSIVE WORKPLACES: Working conditions and worker experiences: Addressing Critical issues in Tourism and Events workplaces

FUTURE: The Future of Tourism and Events Work: Challenges, Debates and Solutions

26 Papers Submitted

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2025

Tourism and Society: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities

Disability and Barrier-Free Travel: Exploring Accessible Tourism

Politics, Boycott, and Tourism

Inequality, Poverty, and Tourism

Gender and Tourism

28 Papers Submitted

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2024

Tourism for Social Change: Exploring the societal benefits of tourism for tourists, local communities and workers.

The everyday complexities of tourism participation: Gender, race, age, disability and/or sexuality and the lived tourism experience

Why care? Solutions for reducing social inequalities and using tourism for a social good

Adopting worker-centric perspectives to critically identify challenges for workers in tourism workplaces

Creating caring, safe and inclusive tourism workplaces: Exploring good practices and developing strategies for the future

34 Papers Submitted

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2023

Tourism, Fairness and Future: Making Tourism More Just

Tourism, Fairness and Dignity: Critically identifying and evaluating challenges and barriers to tourism participation

Tourism of the Future: Strategies, good practices and solutions for making tourism more inclusive

Exploring current critical issues in tourism workplaces

Seeking solutions and making tourism workplaces more equal and welcoming for workers

37 Papers Submitted

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2022

Hopeful tourism: Reshaping and reimagining tourism

POWER: Calling out inequalities in tourism

CONSTRAINT: Towards breaking down barriers to tourism participation: strategies and good practices

VOICE: Making visible discriminative practices in workplaces and giving voice to workers

CHANGE: Creating ethical and inclusive tourism workplaces

25 Papers Submitted

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2021

Tourism and Society in uncertain times

Why society needs social tourism in times of uncertainty

Emerging leisure and micro-tourism practices in uncertain times

Tourism and Social Inclusion: Gender, ethnicity/race, age and/or sexuality and the lived tourism experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and tourism workers: inequalities, changing workplaces and working conditions.

29 Papers Submitted

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2020

Tourism and Social Justice

Making tourism more inclusive: Widening participation through social and accessible tourism.

Towards less stereotyped and more inclusive representations in tourism promotional materials.

Feeling out of place? Impact of gender, ethnicity, age and/or sexuality on tourism experiences.

Critical issues in tourism work: Improving tourism workplaces and working conditions.

29 Papers Submitted

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2019

Increasing inclusion, diversity and wellbeing: Exploring issues of participation, representation and work from a critical tourism and social justice perspectives

Improving wellbeing through social and accessible tourism

Edited out? Tourism, imagery and representation

Understanding gendered and racialised tourism experiences

Tourism from the worker perspective: making sense of working lives and working environments

29 Papers Submitted

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2018

Exploring the possibilities of a critical tourism approach: What it means to embed social justice to transform lives of visitors and workers in tourism?

Tourism, citizenship, diaspora and (im)mobilities

Social tourism, accessibility and wellbeing: Enabling participation and improving lives

Exploring subjective experiences and social identities: Race, gender and queer identities in tourism

Inside tourism and hospitality workplaces: Worker experiences, issues and creating inclusive working environments

31 Papers Submitted

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2017

Towards equal tourism participation and inclusive working environments: access, security and wellbeing

The politics of tourism securitisation: citizens, tourists and terrorists

Tourism and poverty: from leakages to linkages?

Making tourism accessible to all

Tourism as work: Exploring the worker perspective

29 Papers Submitted

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2016

Society, access to tourism and tourism employment

Age, disability, ethnicity and tourism: access, barriers and participation

Gender, empowerment and tourism

Exploring the worker perspective: Flexible work and migration

Inside tourism workplaces: Worker wellbeing, aesthetic and emotional labour

26 Papers Submitted

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2015

Hosts, workers and guests: servicing and accessing tourism

Inclusion, exclusion and unequal participation in tourism

Life behind the scenes: the worker perspective of the tourism world

To host or not to host: Conflict of values between residents and tourists

Tourism de-marketing: When a destination is overcrowded

29 Papers Submitted

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2014

Tourism for leisure, tourism for work: themes in 21st century tourism

Risky business: issues concerning security and tourism

Social factors affecting access to tourism

Serving others: the world of tourism work

What shall we do this year? The varieties of niche tourism

50 Papers Submitted

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2013

What it means to be a tourist in the 21st century

Anxious moments: travelling in an uncertain world

Tourism on hold? Factors restricting holiday-taking

Do you speak my language? Making meaning in tourist encounters

What shall we do this year? The varieties of niche tourism

37 Papers Submitted

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2012

The many faces of the global tourism experience in the 21st century

Tragedies, risks and rewards: travelling in an uncertain world

Becoming a tourist: how backgrounds shape preferences

Love, peace and paradise: tourism as a positive force in the world

Tourism denied: factors restricting holiday-taking

Consuming or decommodifying? Tourist interactions in destinations

59 Papers Submitted

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2011

Global tourists and the changing nature of the vacation experience

Risky business: the challenges facing travellers in an uncertain world

Where we come from and where we go to: how our backgrounds shape our tourism preferences

Mobile or immobile? Factors inhibiting access to tourism

Fun and fantasy, art and authenticity: seeking meaning in the tourist experience

Consuming places: tourist interactions in destinations

58 Papers Submitted

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2010

Who makes the tourism experience in the 21st century?

Sense and sensibility

Pride and prejudice

Ethical challenges and risky territories

Tourism mobilities and mobilising the tourist

78 Papers Submitted

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