The aim of the Forum is to provide a "research forum" among post-graduate students and faculty members engaged in post-graduate teaching and research supervision in hospitality and tourism programs in the Asia Pacific region so that they can exchange information on their research and also network among themselves for future collaboration in research and academic exchanges.

Who Should Attend?

• Post-graduate students in tourism, hospitality, leisure and related fields.
• Academic staff teaching and supervising post-graduate students.
• Administrators of academic programs in hospitality and tourism.
• Undergraduate students interested in pursuing post-graduate studies.
• Publishers of journal and academic textbooks.
• Researchers, academics and consultants with research interests in tourism.

The Forum will feature several plenary sessions that will include panel presentations focusing on:

• Managing successful research career.
• Editor�s Panel on Publishing in academic journals.
• Teaching effectiveness.

Institute For Tourism Studies (IFT) will offer a half-day tour of Macau for Forum participants in the morning of May 23rd, leaving enough time for delegates to attend the Fifth Biennial Conference on Tourism in Hong Kong in the evening of the same day.

Registration and Hotel Accommodations

Forum Registration fee will be US$95 before January 31, 2002 and US$145 thereafter. Please see the announcement for Fifth Biennial Conference on Tourism in Asia for discount registration fees for those planning to attend both events in Macau and Hong Kong. Information on hotel accommodations in Macau is to be announced.

The Forum will focus on a broad range of topics related to research in tourism. The Forum invites papers on either completed research or a preliminary report on �research in progress.� Authors (or at least one co-author in case of co-authored papers) must be a post-graduate student and the paper should base on a research project undertaken as part of authors� post-graduate research projects. 

Best Papers

Best papers will be competitively selected and authors will be acknowledged with a plaque and certificate.

Submission Guidelines

• Three-page abstracts (typed double-spaced) of proposed papers should be submitted for the final selection process. Indicate the author�s name and affiliation only on the cover page.  Author's name should not be indicated anywhere in the abstract.  Indicate clearly "Paper for Graduate Students Forum".
• Submit abstracts to Forum Organizer by either electronic mail ([email protected]) or by regular airmail.
• Deadline for submitting abstracts is January 31, 2002. Paper Review Committee will conduct a refereed screening of abstracts. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit completed papers before April 3, 2002. 
• Once the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must register for and present the paper at the Forum.

Final copies of accepted papers will be professionally published as an edited conference proceedings PRIOR TO the Forum.
 

Prof. Kaye Chon
School of Hotel and Tourism Management
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, 
Hong Kong SAR, PRC
Telephone: +852-2766-6382
Fax: +852-2362-6422
Email: [email protected]

Mr. Alfred Ogle
Institute For Tourism Studies (IFT)
Colina de Mong-Ha, 
Macau SAR, PRC
Tel: +853+5983-126 
Fax: +853-519-058
Email: [email protected]

Prof. Ray Pine
School of Hotel and Tourism Management
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, 
Hong Kong SAR, PRC
Telephone: +852-2766-6372; Fax: +852-2362-9362
Email: [email protected]