'Tourism & Literature' is part of our ongoing annual conference series build around the problem of touristic constructions and experiences of time, space and otherness, and the challenge these represent to the way we communicate and exchange in the contemporary world. This second academic event emphasises on literature which, through both texts and authors, has been a major 'inspiration' for tourists and travel. The inter-relationship between tourist, tourism and literature will be at the heart of this international conference.
The conference will gather around 140 international academics and travel writers from around 25 countries with research interests and teaching curricula in the tourism and travel literature fields. This event is a unique opportunity to raise a number of fundamental anthropological, sociological, geographical and political issues which we would like to discuss through different historic, ethnographic, aesthetic, cognitive-psychological and socio-linguistic perspectives.
Executive Producer: Frederic Revaz
Conference Convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard, William Culver-Dodds