Dateline: Zamboanga

I’m right here in Zamboanga City, Mindanao, Philippines, the land of my birth. Its been quite some time since I visited my hometown. A lot has changed since I was a kid. I visited a couple of schools and will tell you my thoughts and observations in succeeding postings. One big development here is the change of Zamboanga being the “City of Flowers” into the “Latin City of Asia.” Hopefully this moniker will bring in more tourists and maybe call centers catering to the Spanish-speaking world.

The Journal of Tourism History

Dear Fellow Travelers,

This notice is to introduce a new periodical, The Journal of Tourism History. Relevant information is below.

Best wishes,

Bert Gordon, Co-Editor, H-Travel

Journal of Tourism History – Editor: John Walton, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Review Editor: Robert J. Perrins, Acadia University, Canada

Print ISSN: 1755-182X – Online ISSN 1755-1838

The obvious and increasing importance of the global development of tourism has engendered extensive academic interest which has issued forth in a wide range of journals focusing on various aspects of or approaches to tourism studies. These have tended to examine historical trends only over short recent time periods or in abstract and schematic ways. The neglect of tourism is now beginning to be addressed, especially through the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism, which was founded at the University of Central Lancashire in 2001. As interest has burgeoned, the lack of a dedicated journal in this field has become increasingly apparent.

The Journal of Tourism History meets this need by providing an international outlet for the publication of articles and reviews covering every aspect of the history of tourism. It is interdisciplinary in ethos, looking outwards from a historical core to engage with the full range of cognate disciplines and theoretical approaches, and welcomes overviews and comparative as well as contextualised case-studies, covering all areas of the world and all approaches to historical study. It has an international editorial board and an advisory board providing access to global expertise in the field. The Journal of Tourism History is edited by Professor John K. Walton, one of the pioneers of the field. It will be launched in the spring of 2009.

Call for Papers: Papers should be submitted through our online submission and peer review system which can be found at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cvp-th.

Presentation of manuscripts: General guidelines as to the presentation of manuscripts for publication in any of the Channel View Publications journals can be found at: http://www.channelviewpublications.com/multi/guidelines/guidelines_journals.asp.

Detailed procedures for Special Issues are available from the publishers upon application.

Selling or Telling? Paradoxes in Tourism, Culture and Heritage

SELLING OR TELLING? PARADOXES IN TOURISM, CULTURE AND HERITAGE, ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education) Annual Conference 2008

Numerous issues exist between the ’selling’ and ‘telling’ of cultural heritage through tourism. The conflicts range from purely commercial (i.e. competition for space between residents and tourists) and the more esoteric aspects of how and who makes visual, political and cultural representations of local people.

The conference provides an intellectual space to explore these challenges with four interconnected streams providing a coherent logic to the proceedings yet diverse enough to allow for a wide range of multidisciplinary papers that will enable lively debate and provide new insights into this complex area.

1. Dynamic Heritage Impact: Measuring and changing impacts

2. Diversification and Regeneration

3. Culture, Heritage and Representation

4. Conflict

Leontine Onderwater, ATLAS conference secretariat

Travit – PO Box 3042, 6802 DA Arnhem, The Netherlands

Tel: +31-26-4452699

Fax: +31-26-4452932

Email: admin@atlas-euro.org

Website: http://www.atlas-euro.org/pages/content/pgbrighton.htm