30 August – 1st September 2006 at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London
Sports Geography and Tourism
Convenor, Jacky Tivers, Nottingham Trent University, chair, Jacky Tivers, Nottingham Trent University
1) Steven Chubb (St Martin’s College, Lancaster): Reflections on teaching and learning in Sports Geography at Key Stage 3 – what has it to offer or learn from Undergraduate Sports Geography?
2) Charles Spring (University of Derby): Moving Stadia: Issues and Controversies
3) Jacqueline Tivers (Nottingham Trent University): The Urban Marathon: marketing tool, or celebration of place and identity?
4) Andrea Collins & Andrew Flynn (Cardiff University): Modelling the Environmental Sustainability of a Major Sporting Event: The Rugby Six Nationa Tournament
5) Patricia Shako (Independent Consultant, Jamaica): Sports Tourism – Challenges and Benefits Caribbean – ICC World Cup 2007
6) Chris Brennan-Horley, Tricia Tindall, Chris Gibson & Gordon Waitt (University of Wollongong, Australia): Youth Surf Carnivals in non-metropolitan locations: a case study of the Rusty Gromfest.
A Critical Look at Responsible Tourism: demand- and supply-side Perspectives
Convenors: Caroline Scarles, University of Surrey, Jan Mosedale, University of Exeter
Session One: Jan Mosedale (chair)
1) Mark Ewen (University of Hertfordshire): Conflicts Between Policy and Practice: Sustainable Development through tourism in the Annapurna Region, Nepal
2) Caroline Scarles (University of Surrey): Directing and Enlivening Place: Tour Operator Practices of Responsible Marketing and Marketing Responsibility
3) Karen Schwartz & Xavier Font (Leeds Metropolitan University): Developing a common supply chain methodology for European tour operators
4) Marge van der Merwe & Albert Wocke (Grant Thornton Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Consultancy, South Africa & Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa): Implementation of Responsible Tourism Practices by Hotels in South Africa
5) Ken Simpson (Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand): To Protect and Serve: Reconciling Visitor Access with Conservation Imperatives in a National Parks Setting
6) Gillian McCrum (MacAulay Institute & University of Aberdeen): The Use of a New Conceptual Framework in Evaluating Sustainable Tourism Indicator Studies
Session Two: Caroline Scarles (chair)
1) Time Acott (University of Greenwich): Responsible Tourism and reconciling people verus nature
2) Jim Butcher (Canterbury Christchurch University): Alternative Tourism as Life Politics
3) Julian Zarb (Malta Tourism Society): Sustainability: A Multilateral Definition
4) Davina Stanford (Victoria University of Wellington): Exceptional Hosts and Exceptional Guests: Defining responsible tourism and responsible tourists in the context of New Zealand
5) Steven Jackson (Southampton Solent University): Attitudes towards the environment and ecotourism along the tourism supply chain
6) Jan Mosedale (University of Exeter): Where are we at and where are we going? An economic-geographical perspective on responsible tourism