ENTER2012
eTourism Present and Future Services and Applications
Helsingborg Sweden 24th to 27th of January 2012.

ENTER IFITT PhD workshop Tuesday 24th January 2012

PhD workshop - Call for research proposals

THE WORKSHOP
Organised by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), the pre-conference event provides a forum for doctoral students undertaking research in Information and Communication Technology in Travel and Tourism to discuss their research with peers, colleagues and leading supervisors and scholars in the field. Doctoral students at all stages (i.e. beginning as well as nearly completed) are encouraged to participate.

Please note there is NO COST to students or faculty for participating in the workshop. Also the full ENTER 2012 conference is heavily discounted for students to encourage active participation in ENTER 2012. More information about the conference and the workshop can be found at http://www.ifitt.org/congresses/website/enter2012/Home_page.

LOCATION
Campus Helsingborg of Lund University in Helsingborg, Sweden.

CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS
The workshop invites all interested doctoral students to submit their research proposals for review and feedback. The research proposals should be a maximum length of five pages (A4) and should typically include the following headings: 1) problem definition; 2) literature review; 3) conceptual development; 4) proposed methodology; 5) anticipated results; and 6) references. In your submission, please also indicate your progress toward completion of the thesis (i.e. thinking about it, just beginning the process, completed proposal, etc.).

Each submission will undergo a review process. Students will be notified about the review outcome, along with recommendations to improve the proposal before the workshop. Accepted proposals will be made available to workshop participants before the Workshop.

Participants are also required to prepare a poster presentation, which will be displayed throughout the entire ENTER conference.

The best research proposal will receive an award and will be recognized at the main conference event!

Submission

Please download the PhD-Workshop Author Advice as a style guide.

Submit all proposals to the workshop chair at ugretzel@uow.edu.au.

TIME SCHEDULE

Submission closes                                                  8th October 2011
Initial feedback                                                    25th October 2011
Submit final revised proposal                           15th November, 2011
Final acceptance                                              25th November, 2011
PhD Workshop                                                   24th January, 2012
ENTER Conference                                      25th-27th January, 2012

ENTER 2012 PHD WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Chair: Ulrike Gretzel, University of Wollongong, Australia (ugretzel@uow.edu.au)
Co-chair: Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Co-chair: Maria Lexhagen, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

ENTER 2012 PHD WORKSHOP STUDENT COMMITTEE
Zornitza Yovcheva, Bournemouth University
Heather Eden, University of Wollongong

If you would like to participate please contact the ENTER PhD workshop chair Dr Ulrike Gretzel ugretzel @ uow.edu.au