Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
The Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG offers an annual prize of £100 for the best Undergraduate Dissertation in Leisure/Tourism/Sports Geography, submitted as part of a BA, BSc or BEd degree in a geographical subject.
A department should not normally submit more than one entry. Entries should be accompanied by a copy of the instructions given to students, and a note of the dissertation credit rating and mark awarded. Please also include a (post-September) contact e-mail address for the student, so that they can be notified of the result of the competition, and indicate whether the dissertation should be returned to the department or to the student.
Dissertations should be emailed to:
GLTRG Committee,
c/- Research and Higher Education Division of the RGS-IBG (RHED@rgs.org),
or sent by post to:
GLTRG Committee, c/- RHED, Royal
Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR.
Deadline: 22 July 2011
Best Undergraduate Dissertation 2010
The 2010 prize for the best dissertation was awarded to Peter Dyson, of University of Cambridge, for a study entitled ‘Slum Tourism: representing and interpreting ‘reality’ in Dharavi, Mumbai’
Best Undergraduate Dissertation 2009
The 2009 GLTRG UG prize for the best dissertation was awarded to Teo Tsu-Lyn, of University College London, for a dissertation entitled ‘The Future of the Past: Heritage Conservation and Tourism Promotion in Singapore’s Chinatown’.
