Asia Pacific Tourism Association conference

APTA 2018

July 3-6, 2018, Boracay, Philippines                                  

24th Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA) Annual Conference

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 25, 2018

Decision Notification: March 18, 2018

Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 20, 2018

Early Bird Registration: May 27, 2018

Submissions

Submit THREE-Page Abstracts to the Chair of the Paper Review Committee, Dr. SooCheong (Shawn) Jang (Purdue University, USA) athttps://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APTA2018

(This submission website will open on December 1)

Submission Guidelines

Authors must submit a three-page ABSTRACT for review. All submissions to the APTA 2018 Conference must be original work not yet submitted to any other publication prior to the conference. (Authors are free to publish submitted work after the conference.) Submissions must be written in English and prepared in Microsoft Word (2007 or later). All submissions should be free of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors. 

Abstracts

Abstracts must be THREE single-spaced pages long with the title of the paper centered at the top of the first page of each abstract. (A cover page with the author’s information is NOT necessary) Each abstract should include an introduction, literature review, methodology, findings, implications and/or conclusion, and a list of references. Note that references are not included in the three-page limit. 

Thesis-in-Progress: APTA 2018 also invites graduate students to submit in progress theses or dissertations. Selected graduate students will be given the opportunity to receive feedback from a panel of well-known scholars in HTM fields. More details about the Thesis-in-Progress session will be announced separately. 

Full Papers and Proceedings

Full paper submissions are optional after the notification of acceptance. Full paper submissions are required only for authors who want to be considered for best paper awards, which will be competitively selected by the Paper Review Committee. Full papers should be limited to twenty single-spaced pages including references.

The conference proceedings will be distributed on Flash Drives without ISSN at the APTA conference. Conference proceedings will includethree-page abstracts unless authors indicate on the submission website that they prefer to have their Full Papers included. (However, please be aware of potential plagiarism issues if the same or similar full papers are eventually published in other journals.) 

Please make sure to follow the suggested template, which is available at the conference website: https://www.apta2018.org/

Area of Interests 

• Advanced Research in Tourism and Hospitality
• Eco Tourism
• Medical Tourism
• Film and Drama Tourism
• Tourism in ASEAN and GMS
• Tourism Sustainability
• Tourism Planning and Policy
• Community Based Tourism
• Service Quality Management
• MICE
• Logistics
• Supply Chain Management
• Hotel Management
• Restaurant Management and operations
• Safety and Crisis Management
• Information Technology
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Any other subject area related to Tourism, Leisure, and Hospitality Management

Conference Venue

To be announced soon

 Registration Fees 

Registration Type	Early Registration (on or before May 27, 2018)	Regular Registration (After May 27, 2018)
A. APTA Member	USD 370	USD 470
B. Non-Member	USD 470	USD 570
C. Non-Member Plus	USD 370	USD 470
D. Spouse	USD 250	USD 300
E. Full-time student	USD 250	USD 300

For further information, please visit the Conference Website: https://www.apta2018.org/ Or email the Chair of the Paper Review Committee, Dr. Jang, at jang12@purdue.edu