5th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure

«CALL FOR ABSTRACT / PAPER SUBMISSIONS
The 5th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure, Cappadocia, Turkey, 25-30 May 2010.

Following the success of the first four series, the fifth conference will be held in Cappadocia, the beautiful and historic region of Turkey, once again hosted by the journal Anatolia. The conference aims to provide a forum for research collaboration and mentoring of emerging tourism researchers in order to share their research experience. This is an international organization; therefore, submissions from international scholars are highly encouraged.
The Graduate Research Conference provides researchers and/or graduate students with a choice of two types of paper submissions:
- Refereed full papers
- Extended abstracts of theses/dissertations
For the selection process, each type of submission has specific instructions, which must be followed as below:
Thesis/dissertations (max. 2,000 words): Open only for graduate students to reflect the summary of their thesis or dissertations in terms of the development of hypotheses and methodology and showing the way how it may contribute to the literature. In addition to graduates currently enrolled, those who completed their degrees later than 01st January 2008 are also encouraged to submit an abstract.
Research papers (max. 5,000 words): Open both for graduate students and faculty who are encouraged to submit their regular conceptual or empirical papers. At least one author should be present at the conference to present. The authors are free to investigate any subject field they have enough knowledge, experience or research interests.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Thesis and dissertations:
Abstract submission (no more than 200 words)
15 January 2010
Full paper submission (no more than 2,000 words)
15 February 2010
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Research papers:
Abstract submission (no more than 200 words)
15 December 2009
Full paper submission (no more than 5,000 words)
15 January 2010

SPECIAL AWARDS
This year's special awards will be given in four different categories (http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/awards.htm).

Using the initial reviewers' evaluations to shortlist potential awardees, the final award recipients will be selected based on their presentations at the conference.

In addition to the above, details of:
* The conference keynote speakers can be found at:

http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/speakers.htm
* Information about the conference venue can be found at:

http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/hotel.ht
* List of publication opportunities can be found at:

http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/publication.htm

The conference will be running between Tuesday 25 and Saturday 29 May 2010 and will be hosted in the centre of Cappadocia. Hence, in addition to spending a very enjoyable days, we hope that you will also enjoy a very stimulating conference with delegates from across the world.

All further matters relating to the conference can be found on the conference web site at:

http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/
We look forward to meeting you in Cappadocia, Turkey, May 2010.

Metin Kozak,

Ph.D. School of Tourism and Hospitality Management

Mugla University,

48170 Mugla Turkey»

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(reprodução de mensagem de correio electrónico entretanto recebida; cortesia de Paula Cristina Remoaldo)