Call for papers for a workshop of Cluster 5: Leisure, Recreation and Tourism to be held at Campus Plaza Kyoto, Kyoto Japan, October 7-8, 2025
Mobility and transport – and hence also tourism – are often affected by various shocks. The global spread of COVID-19 has led to significant behavioral changes in people’s mobility and activity patterns in urban areas. The impact of the pandemic is not limited to those changes in urban activities, but has the potential to bring about structural changes in the local socio-economic environment of tourist destinations in the long term, as well as changes in attitudes toward tourism and travel behavior at home and abroad, as well as changes in the number of tourists and their choice of destinations and travel patterns over time.
This workshop aims at (i) addressing the overtourism problem from the viewpoint of sustainable tourism and sustainable tourism destination management, and (ii) exploring evidence based answers to quality of life questions in host cities and DMOs, such as “what kind of tourism does a city want to achieve in the tourist destination in the post-pandemic era?” and “how should or can a city properly manage the number of visitors to the tourism destinations and the degree of acceptance of their behaviors?”
The workshop will be structured according to four main topics:
- Reviewing city-tourism impacts of COVID-19 / Insights into overtourism and touristification in the post-pandemic era from sustainable tourism destinations management.
- Case studies: Data-based analysis of overtourism problem / Tourism Carrying Capacity, and Sustainable tourism planning.
- Sustainable urban tourism management in the post-pandemic era / Advanced studies on sustainable tourism destinations management (covering a broad range of topics).
- Perspectives: Pathways to more sustainable solutions to the overtourism problem / Policy studies on sustainable tourism in the post-pandemic.
Papers about the following and related topics are therefore welcome:
- The long-term impact of the pandemic on tourists’ behaviors and their visiting destinations
- Understanding disparities in tourism related travel behaviors in the post-pandemic time
- Rethinking of overtourism in the post-pandemic era
- Advanced studies on the TCC: Conceptual and Quantitative approaches
- Current case studies on overtourism and countermeasures
- Understanding sustainable tourism and sustainable development in tourism destinations
- Sustainable tourism planning and management
- Advanced studies on tourism destinations management and DMO
- Understanding tourism related travel behaviors: Insights, Theories, and Methods
- Relevant topics related to sustainable tourism and sustainable tourism destination management
- Studies on the nexus of locals-residents and tourists
If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 300-500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, and your CV (Curriculum Vitae 2-4 pages) in PDF format to Dr. Kazuo Nishii and Dr. Luca Zamparini before May 11, 2025. The abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee. The notification of abstract acceptance will be distributed by May 31, 2025.
Organizing committee:
Kazuo Nishii, Professor Emeritus, Yamanashi University, Japan (local organizer)
Kuniaki Sasaki, Professor, Waseda University, Japan (local co-organizer and secretariat)
Naohiko Hibino, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan (local co-organizer)
Takeshi Kurihara, Professor, Toyo University at Tokyo, Japan (local co-organizer)
Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan (local co-organizer)
Peter Nijkamp, Iasi University, Romania (Cluster 5 co-chair)
Luca Zamparini, Associate Professor, University of Salento, Italy (Cluster 5 co-chair)