TY - JOUR
T1 - What do conferences do? What is academics’ intangible return on investment (ROI) from attending an academic tourism conference?
AU - Edelheim, Johan R.
AU - Thomas, Kimberly
AU - Åberg, Kajsa G.
AU - Phi, Giang
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Conferences are funny events. They are self-evident elements of our lives as academics: meetings that occur, often annually; take place in various locations; and involve (hopefully) like-minded people, aiming to share their latest research findings. Conferences are actually so self-evident that very little research exists analysing what takes place at conferences, why people attend them in the first place, and essentially what the conference does to delegates as participants. This article is, on one hand, a reflective report from an academic conference: TEFI 9—Celebrating the Disruptive Power of Caring in Tourism Education. But it is also simultaneously an analysis of the implicit and explicit rationale and return on investment for attending academic conferences, in the words of three, at that time, PhD candidate rapporteurs and one professor rapporteur, who acts as this article’s narrator.
AB - Conferences are funny events. They are self-evident elements of our lives as academics: meetings that occur, often annually; take place in various locations; and involve (hopefully) like-minded people, aiming to share their latest research findings. Conferences are actually so self-evident that very little research exists analysing what takes place at conferences, why people attend them in the first place, and essentially what the conference does to delegates as participants. This article is, on one hand, a reflective report from an academic conference: TEFI 9—Celebrating the Disruptive Power of Caring in Tourism Education. But it is also simultaneously an analysis of the implicit and explicit rationale and return on investment for attending academic conferences, in the words of three, at that time, PhD candidate rapporteurs and one professor rapporteur, who acts as this article’s narrator.
KW - Academic conference
KW - care
KW - emotion
KW - ontology
KW - ROI
KW - tourism conference
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85038617961&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15313220.2017.1407517
DO - 10.1080/15313220.2017.1407517
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85038617961
SN - 1531-3220
VL - 18
SP - 94
EP - 107
JO - Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
JF - Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
IS - 1
ER -