The 1st International Conference for Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure is
organized by the Tourism Department, University of Shkodra, Albania and Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst North Carolina, USA to provide a research forum among
graduate students and faculty members engaged in graduate teaching and research in tourism and hospitality, and the other relating areas. Both the students and faculty members Worldwide World are invited to contribute to the conference where the interdisciplinary aspects of tourism and hospitality areas will be emphasized.
Authors are invited to submit papers across a wide spectrum not only in tourism, travel and hospitality but also in the other relating areas such as leisure, recreation, anthropology, economics, education, environment, geography, history, landscape architecture, management, marketing, political science, psychology, etc. Students currently enrolled in any above graduate programs can submit papers reflecting the scope of their thesis or dissertations.
Submission Guidelines
All abstracts should be written in English and must be no more than 200 words in length. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review and published in the
refereed conference proceedings. Abstracts should be e-mailed to
dritakruja@yahoo. com
oelfket@sandhills. edu
and must include: title; author(s); affiliations; a summary of the research aims; approach and key arguments/findings. Papers can be submitted for the following two categories:
Thesis/dissertation s (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 will be graduated until 30 September 2010 are also encouraged to submit an abstract.
Research papers (max. 5,000 words): Open both for graduates and faculty members 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.
After conference the presented papers will publish in Proceeding with ISBN and will have the chance to be submitted to TMC Academic Journal subject to the peer-reviewed
process.
TMC Academic Journal can be accessed at:
http://www.tmc.edu.sg/academiccenter/g-tmcjournal.html
TMC Academic Journal was first published in 2005. It was registered with and obtained an ISSN from the National Library Board of Singapore in December 2007. TMC Academic
Journal has also been listed on the database of Ulrichsweb.com since 2008.
TMC Academic Journal provides opportunities for publication of original and unpublished works of contributors whose work is accepted by TMC Academy for publication. The contributions must be in the English language. All works are invited for publication in the fields of Business, Mass Communication, Hospitality and Tourism, Psychology and Information Technology. Upon acceptance of any literary work, the author will be asked to transfer copyright of the work to the publisher, TMC
Academy.
TMC Academy does not take responsibility for any issue arising out of the contents,
such as copyrights, plagiarism or self-plagiarism, etc. The author(s)/contribut or(s) take full responsibility for the contents. The views expressed in the literary works are that of the authors only.
Scientific committee
Dr. Huong Ha, BA ILA Cert MPP PhD, TMC Academy - Business School, Singapore
Dr. Mary Quek, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Dr. John Turner, Sandhills Community College,Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA
Bill Croft, PhD, RRT, RCP, WHE, DCAE, Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA
Ted Oelfke, CFE, CHE, FMP, Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA
Dr. Adriana Galvani, University of Bologna &University of Bozen, Italy
Dr. Zuzana Khendriche Trhlínová, Economics University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Prof. Dr. Jovan Stojanoski, University of Bitola, Macedonia
Prof. Dr. Alexander Nedelea, University of Suceava, Romania
Dr. Andriela Vitic - Cetkovic, Ass't professor, University of Montenegro
Prof.As. Dr. Liliana Elmazi, University of Tirana, Albania
Prof. As. Dr. Arjeta Troshani, University of Shkodra, Albania
Dr. Drita Kruja, University of Shkodra, Albania
Venue:
UNIVERSITY OF SHKODRA “LUIGJ GURAKUQI”
Address: Sheshi 2 Prilli
Shkoder, Albania www.unishk.edu.al
Accommodation in Shkodra.
Grand Europa Hotel
Website: www.europagrandhotel.com
e-mail: info@europagrandhot el.com
Hotel Colosseo
Website: www.colosseohotel.com
e-mail: info@colosseohotel.com
Tradita Hotel
Website: www.traditagt.com
e-mail: traditagt@yahoo.com
Hotel Kaduku
Website: www.hotel-kaduku.com
e-mail: info@hotel-kaduku.com
Contact:
dritakruja@yahoo.com
mersidab@hotmail.com
arjeta_87@yahoo.com
gloria_harusha@hotmail.com
IMPORTANT DATES
- 25 April 2010: Conference announcement and first call for papers
- 25 May 2010: Abstracts submission
- 01 June 2010: Notification of acceptance/rejectio n:
- 01 September 2010: Submission of full papers
- 10 September 2010: Notification of acceptance/ rejection
Conference fee
30 Euro/ students
60 Euro/ teachers and others
200 Euro/ tourism organization that want to promote their businesses
The conference fee includes the conference materials, CD of abstracts, publication in conference proceedings with ISBN and the conference lunch
You can find the call for paper http://www.unishk.edu.al/matbig.php?idr=27&idm=431&lang=2
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
