CALL FOR PAPERS - Forum “Tourism and Science: Bridging Theory and Practice” to be held at the Tivoli Marina Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, from 1-3 Jun

INVITATION
CALL FOR PAPERS
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the University of Algarve (Portugal) are pleased to invite you to participate and to submit papers to the Forum “Tourism and Science: Bridging Theory and Practice” to be held at the Tivoli Marina Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, from 1-3 June 2011.
Academic and professional papers are welcome, and will be contributing to the UNWTO.Know Forum and the resulting UNWTO Algarve Consensus. Papers should comply with the methodological guidelines set for the Forum, encompassing such topics as:
• Development (incl. marketing positioning and competitiveness)
o Identifying and fostering actors: private and public
o Developing actors’ capabilities
o Establishing empowering frameworks – science, technology, procedures and capital (human, social, physical and financial)
• Climate change (incl. sustainability issues)
o Analysis and research tools
o Policy: research, voluntary standards, codes, norms and laws
o Science, technology and procedures.
• Governance
o Human capital: education and training
o Institutional capital: institutions’ development and policies
o Conventional capital: facilitating investments and productivity.


Paper submissions must be in English and sent by e-mail to: unwtoforum@ualg.pt. Detailed information about the submission guidelines and Forum is available at the website: http://www.fe.ualg.pt/conf/unwtoforum.

All submissions must be received by 15 April 2011.

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Forum "Tourism and Science: Bridging Theory and Practice"
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
1 - 3 June 2011
http://www.fe.ualg.pt/conf/unwtoforum