Destinations are taking an increased interest in placemaking - the reimagining and reinvention of spaces at the heart of communities to strengthen the connection between people and places. Tourism researchers play a critical role in understanding what drives destination appeal and visitor engagement.
Submissions for presentations, papers, workshops, panels and student posters are invited relating to the overarching theme of Animating Places: Making Destinations Come Alive through Research. Submissions may be on a range of tourism related topics and the Conference Program Committee also encourages presentations on topics that are outside the general theme – our goal is to provide content that is relevant, timely and of interest to our members. Accepted submissions will be eligible for one of three non-monetary awards for best paper (refereed abstracts), best presentation (non-refereed) and best student poster. N.B. Deadline for submissions have been extended to June 8th, 2016
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Submissions from 2016
Applying the Tourism Area Life Cycle and Small Tourism Enterprises’ Growth Cycle Models to Explain Communities’ Sustainability, Baikuntha P. Acharya
Farm Tourists: Exploring Reasons For Visiting “Ferienhof Faust”, Nadina Ayer, Kai Jiang, Ron McCarville, and Roger Mannell
Overcoming the Image of Colombia: A Study of Canadian Travel Agents, Meghan Barley and Frederic Dimanche
Finding Happiness Through Globetrotting: Push Factors of Long-Term Travellers, Valerie Bertrand, Linda Rohr PhD, and TA Loeffler PhD
International Collaboration in Destination Marketing: a Case Study of the Vanilla Islands, Émilie Bourdages and Marc-Antoine Vachon
Mobile device use and non-use in a festival context: the roles of age and gender, Jill Bueddefeld, Christine Van Winkle, Elizabeth Halpenny, and Kelly MacKay
Sustainable Tourism Planning in Small Towns, Bibiana Cala
Conceptualization of place attachment, self-congruity, and their impacts on word-of-mouth behaviors, Ning (Chris) Chen and Tina Šegota
New Immigrants’ Domestic Tourism Destination Choice Behavior: A Study of Bangladeshi-Origin Canadians, Shahin Ahmed Chowdhury and Joanne E. McNeish
The Influence of Time of Day on Traveler Website Conversions, Maryse Côté-Hamel
Improving Service Experiences with Mobile Ethnography: The Case of two Attractions in Toronto, Frederic Dimanche and Chris Gibbs
Environics Analytics' New TSRC Dataset, Jason Dunkel
Teaching an Old Dataset New Tricks, Jason Dunkel
#tourism: The Influence of Social Media on Visitor Experiences in Churchill, Manitoba, Katherine Ann Fowler
Public Perceptions of the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Claudia G. Green PhD and Adnan Dhiyan MBA
Why tourists choose Airbnb: A motivation-based segmentation study underpinned by innovation concepts, Daniel Guttentag
Animating Japan through Sport Tourism: An International Research Collaboration, Tom Hinch
WinterCity Shake-Up, Susan Holdsworth
Development of City Destination Attractiveness Index: A China Case, Yiming Liu, shuyue huang, Hwan-Suk Chris Choi Dr, and Ye (Sandy) Shen
Social Media Use in Festival and Daily Life Contexts, Kelly MacKay PhD, Christine Van Winkle PhD, Elizabeth Halpenny PhD, and Danielle Barbe
Eskasoni Cultural Journeys: A community-led approach to sustainable tourism development, Stephanie MacPherson, Patrick T. Maher, Janice Esther Tulk, Mary Beth Doucette, and Tracy Menge
Sharing Stories of Familiar Places and the Emotional Geographies of Family Travel back ‘Home’, Kelley A. McClinchey Dr.
The Effect of Destination Image on Tourists’ Trust, Loyalty and Satisfaction with a Heritage Tourism Destination: A Case Study of Abyaneh, Iran, Farshid Mirzaalian and Elizabeth Halpenny
The Influence of Ecological Worldview and Attitudes on Park Visitors’ Pro-Environmental Behavioural Intention: A Case Study of Alberta Parks' Campers, Farhad Moghimehfar
The Relationship Between Craft Breweries and Rural Tourism: Case of Ontario, Jessica A. Pampalas
Smartphone Use During Travel, Joe P. Pavelka PhD
Measuring economic value using administrative data, Kailee Penner
The Cognitive-Affective Relationship of Tourists to a Heritage Site: The Case of Petra, Girish Prayag, Ning (Chris) Chen, Sameer Hosany, and Khaled Odeh
Antecedents of Heritage Tourists’ Satisfaction: The Role of Motivation, Discrete Emotions and Place Attachment, Girish Prayag and Giacomo Del Chiappa
Making Destinations Come Alive: student created stories of place, Robin Reid
Examining the Role of Satisfaction and Brand Love in Generating Behavioral Intention, Ye (Sandy) Shen, Shuyue Huang, Hwan-Suk Chris Choi Ph.D., and Marion Joppe Ph.D.
Spatio-Temporal Data in Tourism Research, Dmitry Shkolnik
Consuming places through food tourism: Insights on the food artisan sector from BC, Nicole L. Vaugeois and John Predyk
Uncovering and Mapping Place Attachment in Small Cities, Nicole L. Vaugeois, Alanna Williams, Sharon Karsten, and Pam Shaw
Determinants of Traveler Dissatisfaction: An Application of Mining Travel Blogs, Nanxi Yan
Perceptions of Pre- and Post-Event Impacts of PEI 2014 Year-Long Celebrations, DongKoo Yun and Melissa James-MacEachern