event_2016_canterbury

ATLAS annual conference

Canterbury, United Kingdom
14-16 September, 2016

Tourism, Lifestyles and Locations

Provisional program HERE

Abstract Book HERE

Book of extended Abstracts HERE

University map HERE

Canterbury Christ Church University takes great pleasure and pride in hosting the ATLAS Annual Conference in September 2016. 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of ATLAS, therefore the conference is designed to bring together all old, current and new ATLAS members as well as welcome non-members to the ATLAS family.

Locations are far from being just a tourist backdrop; they are intimately connected to tastes, desires, memories and a sense of place. Locations are themselves shaped by the tourist gaze, both physically and culturally. New locations are sought for unique adventures, and each year we interact more and more with digital technologies which may influence our tourism decisions and experiences.

For some, tourism is about fashion, fun or simply relaxation. For others a holiday comprises a search for something deeper. Numerous niches cater for lifestyle tourism, unforgettable and immersive experiences which are juxtaposed against the traditional popular mass tourism packages holidays.

The inter disciplinary themes of tourism, locations and lifestyles have been brought together under one conference and we aim to push the boundaries of our understanding of tourism and its relationship to modern lifestyle and to destinations in the contemporary environment.

We welcome high quality and innovative papers on a variety of themes, including but not limited to:

Niche tourism and selfhood
Landscape and tourism
Tourism and the coast
Urban locations and tourism
Tourism, travel and identity
Rural development as tourism locations
Ethical tourism and lifestyles
Eco tourism and destinations
Heritage tourism and location
Family Tourism
Mass Tourism as a lifestyle concept
Digital transformation and contemporary tourism
Tourism/Tourist in your own city
Sport and Tourism as Elements of Place Branding

Keynote speakers

Victoria Pomery

Victoria Pomery was appointed Director of Turner Contemporary in 2002 to develop an arts organisation in Margate, Kent, as part of a strategy of cultural led regeneration. Working with a small team and with funding from Kent County Council and Arts Council England, Victoria developed a programme of audience development work which included exhibitions, commissions and events. In summer 2006 she was part of the selection panel which appointed David Chipperfield Architects to design a gallery building with a budget of £17.4m. Victoria worked closely with David and his team on the design development. After significant fund raising, the gallery went on site in 2009 and opened to huge critical acclaim in April 2011.

Since opening the gallery has welcomed more than 1.3 million visitors including HM The Queen and the Prime Minister and now employs 50 FTEs. The gallery runs an ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions of historical and contemporary art, an exemplary Learning Programme and a dynamic Public Programme. The gallery also operates a café, shop and venue hire business. Turner Contemporary is an active member of the Plus Tate network enabling key loans to be made from Tate Collection including works by JMW Turner.

In 2012, Victoria was awarded an OBE for services to the arts. In 2013 she was made a Kent Ambassador, received an Honorary Masters Degree from the University for the Creative Arts and judged the BP Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.
Victoria is Chair of the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (South East) and is a board member of the Area Council for Arts Council England South East.

Marina Novelli

Marina Novelli is professor of tourism and international development at the University of Brighton. Dr Marina Novelli is an expert in the field of international tourism policy, planning and development. She has advised on numerous international cooperation and research assignments funded by International Development Organisations (IDOs) such as: the World Bank, the UN, the EU, The Commonwealth Secretariat as well as National Ministries, Tourism Boards, Regional Development Agencies and Third Sector Organisations.

Her international reputation is associated with the concept of niche tourism (Novelli, M. ed. (2005) Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases. Oxford: Elsevier) and with her extensive applied research on tourism and development in Sub-Sahara Africa, also recently published in Novelli, M., (2016) Tourism and Development in sub-Sahara Africa: Contemporary Issues and Local Realities, Oxford: Routledge.

At the University of Brighton (UK), she leads the research cluster on Policy, Practice and Performance in Tourism, Leisure and Sport of the Centre of Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies (CoSTaLS), an affiliate member of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). She sees her mission as generating new knowledge on ways in which tourism can play a key role in sustainable development by stimulating local economies, conserving the environment, developing peoples and changing lives.

David Testa

David Testa is Chief Executive Officer of London Resort Company Holdings (LRCH), the developer behind the London Paramount Entertainment Resort project.

London Paramount is designated by the UK Government as a ‘Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project’ (NSIP), located close to Ebbsfleet International Station on the Swanscombe Peninsula in North-West Kent, just outside London. The overarching vision of LRCH is to create the UK’s first world-class, global entertainment destination. The Resort is the first major business and commercial scheme to be designated an NSIP and is due to open in 2021, subject to planning permission from the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. It will create up to 27,000 jobs and expects to receive approximately 15 million visitors per annum once fully developed.

David was previously CEO of Gatehouse Bank in London, where he was responsible for setting up the bank and successfully obtaining its banking licence from the UK regulatory authorities.
Prior to joining Gatehouse, David worked for German bank WestLB for more than 10 years and led the Islamic finance team there, closing over US$5 billion of Shariah-compliant transactions Perhaps most notably, David was the lead banker on the £225m Shariah-compliant UK leveraged buy-out of Aston Martin from Ford Motors.

Before his career in banking, David was a solicitor in London and Tokyo with Slaughter and May and ashurst (known previously as ‘Ashurst Morris Crisp’).

David holds an MA in Modern History from Oxford University.

Jim Butcher

Over the last 15 years Jim Butcher has pioneered a critique of some commonly held assumptions about leisure travel. Where others have accused the tourism industry, and tourists themselves, of unethical behaviour, cultural arrogance and environmental damage, Butcher has argued in The Moralisation of Tourism (Routledge, 2003) that the ability to travel for leisure should be seen in rather more optimistic terms. In Ecotourism, NGOs and Development (Routledge 2007) he critiqued the claim made by environmental and rural development NGOs that ecotourism can constitute exemplary sustainable development . Most recently Butcher has co-written Volunteer Tourism: the Lifestyle Politics of International Development (Routledge, 2015, co-authored with Peter Smith). This monograph argues that volunteer tourism involves a laudable impulse to see the world and help others, but focuses on therapeutic self-realisation rather than development or political enlightenment.

Yoel Mansfeld

Yoel Mansfeld is a Professor in Tourism Planning & Development at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Israel He holds BA and MA (with distinction) from the University of Haifa, Israel and a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, UK.

His main areas of academic interests include socio-cultural impacts of tourism development; tourism safety & security, tourism and consumer behaviour; managing cultural and heritage tourism; community-based tourism; religious tourism; tourism planning and development; and sustainable tourism. Between 2005-2008 he acted as the Chair the Department and since 2001 he has been the Program Leader of the Department’s MA program on “Tourism Planning and Development”. Yoel Mansfeld is the founder and Head of the University of Haifa's Centre for Tourism, Pilgrimage & Recreation Research (CTPRR).

His international academic activities included so far participation in more than fifty international conferences worldwide, a one-year position as a visiting professor in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Central Florida – USA, as a visiting academic researcher at the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Waikato, New Zealand and at the Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna (Rimini Campus). In his capacity as the Head of CTPRR he has been an active member of the UNITWIN – UNESCO Network on “Tourism, Culture & Development” led by IREST - the Sorbonne – Paris 1. He is also one of the founding members of the advisory research network on Cultural Routes established by the Council of Europe’s European Institute for Cultural Routes.

Yoel Mansfeld has published extensively in tourism, planning and geography journals and is the Series Editor of: Managing Cultural Tourism: A Sustainability Approach (World Scientific); co-editor of Tourism, Crime & International Security Issues (JW & Sons); Consumer Behavior in Travel & Tourism (republished also in India and in China) (Haworth Hospitality Press); Tourism, Safety & Security: from Theory to Practice (Elsevier) and a co-author of Christian Tourism to the Holy Land: Pilgrimage during Security Crisis (Ashgate). He also serves on the editorial boards of several leading tourism academic journals.

Conference themes

We welcome high quality and innovative papers on a variety of themes, including but not limited to:

Niche tourism and selfhood
Landscape and tourism
Tourism and the coast
Urban locations and tourism
Tourism, travel and identity
Rural development as tourism locations
Ethical tourism and lifestyles
Eco tourism and destinations
Heritage tourism and location
Family Tourism
Mass Tourism as a lifestyle concept
Digital transformation and contemporary tourism
Tourism/Tourist in your own city
Sport and Tourism as Elements of Place Branding

Special tracks

The conference organizers invite proposals for organizing special tracks during the conference and encourage ATLAS Special Interest Groups and Chapters to plan meetings and workshops within or next to the conference program. Please contact admin@atlas-euro.org before Februari 1^st 2016 if you have any plans to organize a SIG meeting or a project meeting during this conference.

Special track 1

Dark Tourism, Memory and Pilgrimage

Supported by the First World War Centenary Partnership

Cemeteries, sites of death and atrocities or so called ‘fun-factories’ are increasingly part of the typical tourist itinerary, and 2016 marks the midway point in the centenary anniversary events of The Great War, therefore, making it timely to reflect on war as a visitor attraction.
Canterbury Cathedral (the site of an infamous historical murder) is the destination for those who travel along the pilgrim paths from Winchester and Rochester. It is also the beginning of the route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and the Via Francigena to Rome. This special track on dark tourism, memory and pilgrimage aims to draw on topics and issues in this growing academic area.

Abstracts of this track are invited to explore, but not limited to the following themes:

Contemporary pilgrimage experiences
War as a visitor attraction
Motivations of dark tourism
Thanatourism and morality
Specific Case Studies

The convenors have agreed with the European Journal of Tourism Research a special issue on ‘Dark Tourism, Memory and Pilgrimage”.

Special track 2

Reflections on Contemporary Cultural Tourism

Led by Sarah Dance, Project Director, Culture Kent.

This Special Track aims to draw out both academic and industry reflections on contemporary cultural tourism. It will be led by Sarah Dance, Project Director for Culture Kent, a partnership project aiming to ‘create new strategic relationships between the cultural and tourism sectors’ in Kent (www.culturekent.net), funded by the Arts Council England and VisitEngland under the Cultural Destinations Programme. The day’s sessions will provide delegates with an opportunity to explore emerging insights from this cultural tourism project and preview early findings from the Culture Kent Research Programme being delivered by the Tourism and Events Research Hub, CCCU and Visit Kent. Abstracts of this special track are invited to explore the international, national and local debates on cultural tourism, the cultural tourist and the cultural tourism destination and experience.

Themes:

The contemporary cultural/cultural tourism landscape
Changing lifestyles, consumer trends and contemporary cultural tourists
Cross-sectorial working in tourism and culture/arts
Best practice in tourism/cultural partnerships and networks
Cultural destinations and experiences

Papers for this special track will be considered for a forthcoming special issue of 'Tourism Today'.

Special track 3

Volunteer Tourism: travelling for a change?

Led by Dr Jim Butcher and Dr Angela Benson
Sponsored by the ATLAS Volunteer Tourism Research Group and the American Association of Geographers’ Recreation, Sport & Tourism group

Volunteer tourism has enjoyed a remarkable growth in the last decade, and that has been accompanied by discourses of its meaning, merits and significance for development (both personal and community). This niche is seen by some as harnessing a humanitarian impulse with the potential to contribute to global, ethical citizenship as well as development. Elsewhere it has attracted criticism for its alleged complicity in creating a neoliberal marketplace for conspicuous virtue and for promoting a neo-colonial sense of moral superiority.

Authors have looked at volunteer tourism in relation to development, identity, social agency, ethics, education and personal development. Yet the efficacy and ethics of making a difference through volunteer holidays remain s both contested and a reflection of wider discussions of development, social agency and identity.

We welcome high quality abstracts on a variety of themes, including:

Assessing good / poor practice in the volunteer tourism sector
Ethnographic, anthropological and sociological approaches to understanding volunteer tourism
Volunteer tourism’s contribution to development / wellbeing / social capital
The efficacy and performance of volunteer tourism projects / organisations
The view of volunteer tourism from host communities
Volunteer tourism, Government / Governance perspectives
Volunteer tourism, Cosmopolitanism and Global citizenship*

* Abstracts / papers submitted on this theme will be considered for a special issue of Tourism and Recreation Research titled Tourism, Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship (see separate call for papers). The convenors are also looking at other possibilities for publication.

Special track 4

Tourism in an Aging World

Led by:
Carlos Ferreira (IGOT-ULisboa)
Antti Honkanen (University of Eastern Finland)

The remarkable development of tourism business and practices since the late 20^th century has progressed in parallel with significant demographic changes on a global scale.

Numbers unveil the magnitude of those recent trends: by 2012 the world population reached 7 billion, of which more than 1 billion is aged 55+; in the same year international tourists also reached 1 billion. Numbers also confirm them as megatrends for the near future: by 2030, one would expect to have 1,8 billion individuals aged 55+ worldwide and a same amount of international tourists.

Population aging, in the context of leisure societies and increased tourism mobilities, thus generates multiple challenges upon which researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations,… should reflect.

In line with the main conference theme, we invite for this Special Track high quality papers focusing on age-related tourism issues, either theoretical perspectives or more applied research.

Papers for this Special Track may explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Lifestyles and the life course: consumption patterns, consumer’s profiles
Places to see… places to be: geographical perspectives on senior tourism and retirement migration
Active ageing and active holidays: motivations, behaviours and results
Ageing and wellbeing tourism
Tourism and ageing (public) policies: mind the gap !
Tourism industry strategies: untapping the potential
New technologies for ageing

Special track 5

Changing Lifestyles and Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Led by Professor Kevin Hannam, Dr Cody Paris and Jihane Adeimi.

Since the “Arab Spring”, the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) has experienced widespread conflicts and changes in the political, economic and socio-cultural arenas. At the same time, international tourism has continued to play a significant role in some Arabic countries in the face of new risks, while Halal tourism lifestyles and performances have been developed, following the rise of domestic tourism in the region. Previous research have examined aspects of cultural and heritage tourism and urban tourism development (Daher, 2007) as well as the wider geopolitics and mobilities in this region (Hazburn, 2008). This special track aims to give researchers a platform to discuss more recent tourism developments and changing lifestyles in the MENA region.

We therefore welcome high quality abstracts on a variety of themes, including:

Developments in Halal/Islamic tourism and marketing in the MENA region
Changing lifestyles, mobilities and tourism performances in the MENA region
Changing host-guest relations in the MENA region
New tourist destinations and urban tourism developments in the MENA region
The politics of events in the MENA region
Changing tourism policies and strategies in the MENA region
The impact of risks on tourism in the MENA region

The convenors are currently looking at possibilities for publication.

Special track 6

Lifestyle and communities: sharing in the digital era

Led by: Lenia Marques, Jules Hecquet and Dimitrios Buhalis (Bournemouth University, UK)
Supported by: ETourism Lab

The leisure and tourism landscape has been subject to rapid changes in a world where internet and technologies have contributed to shape experiences, relationships, practices and lifestyles. In the network society, the sense of community is also varied and we can interrogate different meanings, values and practices at the heart of changing social interactions. The boundaries between online and offline communities seem to be blurred and they present new societal challenges, which also affect the industry, namely with sharing economy / collaborative consumption practices and communities (such as AirBnB, Uber, Couchsurfing, Meetup, Mealsharing, etc.).

The causes and consequences of such platforms in terms of lifestyle and the sense of community is yet to be studied. Therefore, we welcome papers which may explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Online/offline communities and lifestyle
Sharing economy / collaborative consumption and lifestyle
Social interaction in the digital era
Leisure digital practices
Events as online/offline communities of practice
Digital technologies in the tourism experience
Lifestyle challenges in leisure and tourism
Impacts of sharing economy / collaborative consumption in conventional industry production systems
Research methods in the context of sharing economy / collaborative consumption

The convenors are looking at possibilities for publication.

Special track 7

Space, place, mobilities and moorings in tourism research

Led by: Antonio Paolo Russo

This special track invites contributions which present conceptual, methodological and empirical advances in tourism research especially focusing on processes of construction, transformation, negotiation and signification of place. It is thus a strongly inter-disciplinary session situated at the crossroads of emerging paradigms as mobilities, performativity, creativity and critical and radical studies of tourism.

The intention of this session is to be a ‘refoundational’ event of the Tourism Geography SIG, opening up to a wider range of disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches (and changing its name to (Tourist Spaces, Places and Flows). Thus we hope to gather a group of contributors and attendees who will be invited to join this new SIG and help to draft a future activity agenda, including plans for future publications.

We welcome high quality abstracts on a variety of themes, including:

Entangling mobilities at tourist destination: tourists, residents and populations ‘in-between’
The tourist use of public services at destinations
Private homes as moorings for tourists
Mobilising places and the role of technology
Attraction and exclusion agendas in place politics
The mobility of crime at tourist destinations
Mobile lives and ‘slow’ places

Abstract submission

All abstracts will be subject to double-blind review by members of the scientific committee. Acceptance of a submission will be based on: theoretical and empirical significance; methodological soundness; relevance to the theme of the conference and logical clarity. The official language of the conference is English.

Abstracts should be submitted to ATLAS by using this form.

Abstracts should indicate background, theoretical/practical implications, methods and/or data sources and indicative findings of the paper. Abstracts should have between 350-500 words. The title should be no more than 12 words. Authors should also indicate which conference topic their proposed paper relates to.

The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to 7 May 2016

Important dates

Abstract submission : March 18^th, 2016

Abstract submission extended deadline : April 15^th, 2016

Abstract submission second extended deadline : May 7^th, 2016

Notification of acceptance : April 15^th, 2016

Notification of acceptance of late submissions : May 13^th, 2016

Notification of acceptance of latest submissions May 28^th, 2016

Extended abstract submission : July 2^nd, 2016

Conference : September 14^th, 2016

Full paper submission : November 14^th, 2016

PhD Seminar and Poster Presentation

Tuesday 13th September 2016

Canterbury Christ Church University, University of Malta and Aalborg University, are working in partnership to bring together PhD students of tourism or related disciplines in a one-day colloquium as part of the Annual ATLAS Conference in September. The seminar will provide a chance to network with tourism academics and fellow PhD Researchers.

Students will present to their peers and an academic panel in one of the following pathways:

Students who are at the beginning of their PhD.
Students who are halfway through their PhD.
Students who are completing and maybe preparing for their Viva.

Each pathway will start with a talk from an academic/peer/student who as recently passed through the relevant stage and who will share their experience. The academic panel and PhD peers will provide critical and valuable feedback in a friendly environment.

Students are also invited to participate in a poster presentation, the poster session is always a great opportunity to talk about details, discuss relevant related research, and bond with fellow PhD students. The posters will then be displayed throughout the full ATLAS Conference.

During the conference there will also be a workshop on ‘How to get yourself published’.

Acceptance of a submission will be based on:

Theoretical and empirical significance
Methodological soundness
Relevance to the theme of the conference
Logical clarity.

The selection among the applicants will be conducted by the chairpersons of the seminar:

Dimitri Ioannides, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Carina Ren, Tourism Research Unit, Aalborg University, Denmark
Lorna Thomas, Canterbury Christ Church University, Uk
Andrew Jones, University of Malta

The official language of the seminar (and the conference) is English.

Abstracts should indicate:

Background
Theoretical/practical implications
Methods and/or data sources
Indicative findings of the paper

Interested doctoral students should submit the following (in MS WORD format):

A 2000 word abstract (plus figures, tables, and references) of their doctoral research methodology (planned or actual), outlining the methodological direction (and/or challenges) of your research project. The title should be no more than 12 words.
A one-page Curriculum Vitae.

Abstracts and CV's should be submitted to ATLAS by sending it to admin@atlas-euro.org. The deadline for submitting abstracts and CV’s is May 7, 2016. You will be notified about the acceptance by May 20, 2016.

The costs of participation of this Doctoral Seminar is € 80 for both ATLAS members and non-ATLAS members.

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Publication details

All abstracts (max 500 words) and extended abstract/working papers (max 2000 words) will be published in the abstract book. This abstract book (with ISBN) will be sent to all registered participants before the conference, in PDF format.

Submission date for the extended abstracts / working papers (max 2000 words) is July 20th 2016 (extended submission date) and should be submitted to ATLAS in Ms WORD by e-mail attachment to admin@atlas-euro.org

Delegates are welcome to submit their full papers AFTER the conference. We are very happy we have been able to develop multiple ways to publish the papers:

Tourism Recreation Research
Papers will be considered to be published in a special issue of the T&F journal Tourism Recreation Research. Depending on the quality and themes of the papers the SC will decide on which papers will be considered for this special issue.

Tourismos Journal
There will be a SPECIAL ISSUE of TOURISMOS journal dedicated to the ATLAS 2016 International Conference (http://www.chios.aegean.gr/tourism/journal.htm). The theme of the special issue will be "Tourism Locations as Innovative Spaces" and will draw on the themes of the conference which fall under the general title "Tourism, Lifestyles and Locations".
The list of authors and papers will be formulated during and after the conference. Authors may submit a tentative title, list of authors, and short description of the topic anytime during the conference and until September 30th , 2016. These could be submitted to any of the Guest Editors in person or at rdoffice@gmail.com. Note a Special Issue is limited to 8 papers.
Names of Guest Editors: Prof. Paris Tsartas, University of Agean. Drs. Spyridon Avdimiotis-Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Anastasioos Zopiatis - Cyprus University of Technology, Prof. Evagelos Christou - Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki

ATLAS Review
Papers that are not considered for the two journals above will be considered for publication in the ATLAS Review - The ATLAS Review gives ATLAS members and participants of the ATLAS conference and meeting participants a platform to publish the papers they have presented. The editing will be carried out by an editorial board / field editors.

Furthermore three of the special tracks have other publications intentions:

Special track 1 - Dark Tourism, Memory and Pilgrimage
The conveners have agreed with the European Journal of Tourism Research a special issue on ‘Dark Tourism, Memory and Pilgrimage”.

Special track 2 - Reflections on Contemporary Cultural Tourism
Papers for this special track will be considered for a forthcoming special issue of Tourism Today.

Special track 3 - Volunteer Tourism: travelling for a change?
Abstracts / papers submitted on this theme will be considered for a special issue of Tourism and Recreation Research titled Tourism, Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship (see separate call for papers). The conveners are also looking at other possibilities for publication.

The deadline for submitting full papers is November 14th 2016.

During the ATLAS Conference there will be a workshop on ‘How to get yourself published.’

Scientific committee

Angela Benson – University of Brighton
Dikaia Chatziefstathiou - Canterbury Christ Church University
René van der Duim – Wageningen University
Anna Farmaki – Cyprus University of Technology
Mark Hampton – University of Kent
Kevin Hannam – Leeds Becket University
Dimitrios Ioannides – Mid Sweden University
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson - University of Iceland
Andrew Jones – University Of Malta
Jane Lovell – Canterbury Christ Church University
Marina Novelli – Unversity of Brighton
Shola Osinake – Canterbury Christ Church University
Carina Ren – University of Aalborg
Greg Richards – NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
Paolo Russo – University Rovira i Virgili
Alexis Saveriades – Cyprus University of Technology
Karen Soulby – Sheffield Hallam
Marion Stuart-Hoyle – Canterbury Christ Church University
Antonis Theochaorus – Canterbury Christ Church University
Karen Thomas – Canterbury Christ Church University
Lorna Thomas – Canterbury Christ Church University
Anastasios Zopiatis – Cyprus University of Technology

Provisional programme

Find the first draft of the provisional program HERE

Conference packages

Packages: ATLAS members Non-Members

Participants

Conference materials

Welcome reception

Coffee breaks

3 lunches

Conference dinner

Guided walking tour

€ 300 € 395

Doctoral students

Conference materials

Welcome reception

Coffee breaks

3 lunches

Guided walking tour

€ 80 € 130

PhD seminar

Conference materials

Coffee breaks

Lunch

Evening activity

€ 80 € 80

Conference dinner € 45
€ 45

Excursion on Friday € 30
€ 30

Companions

Welcome reception

Conference dinner

Excursion on Friday

Guided walking tour

€ 75
€ 75

Cancellation policy

If written cancellation is received on or before September 1^st, 2016, a refund of all meeting fees will be made, minus an administration fee of € 50. No refund will be possible after September 1^st 2016, but substitute delegates can be nominated.

Conference venues

The 2016 ATLAS Annual Conference and PhD Colloquium will take place at Canterbury Christ Church University on our Canterbury Campus. The largest of our campuses, Canterbury is situated in a World Heritage Site, and adjoins St Augustine’s Abbey.

The campus is within five minute walk of Canterbury Cathedral and the city centre and most hotels, a ten minute walk from Canterbury East train station (trains from several London stations) and a twenty minute walk from Canterbury West train station, (Canterbury West Train Station is where the high speed train links London St Pancras to Canterbury; the journey takes just one hour). The campus is 16 miles from the Port of Dover.

The Canterbury campus hosts all the facilities such as lecture theatres for plenary sessions, parallel sessions rooms, food courts and cafes, toilets, cash machines etc. needed for the conference.

Address:
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1QU

Map and Directions
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/about-us/find-us/canterbury.aspx

Conference organisers

Organisers

Organising committee

Lorna Thomas – Canterbury Christ Church University
Ken Aduhene – Canterbury Christ Church University
Shola Osinake – Canterbury Christ Church University
Antonis Theochaorus – Canterbury Christ Church University
Constantinos Papadopoulos - Cyprus University of Technology
Savvas Sakkadas - Cyprus University of Technology
Anastasios Zopiatis - Cyprus University of Technology

Organising partners

Accomodation

Recommended: St George’s Centre
Accommodation is available for the 2016 ATLAS Annual Conference at St George’s Centre in the heart of Canterbury. St George’s is our 5 star University accommodation, situated only a short walk away from the North Holmes Road campus and a stone’s throw away from the town centre and other local attractions. All rooms have small double beds and en-suite bathrooms and we do have some fully accessible rooms.
The rate per person per night at St George’s is £57.60 INC VAT and this includes a full English or continental breakfast in the morning served in the lounge bar area of St George’s Centre. Double occupancy rates are also available for £80.40 INC VAT per room per night including breakfast.
Please contact the Conference and Events department at canterbury.conferences@canterbury.ac.uk or call the office on +44-1227 863597+44-1227 863597 to make an enquiry for accommodation and they will be able to make the booking on your behalf.

Travelodge Canterbury Chaucer Central Hotel
(within a five minute walk from the conference venue)
63 Ivy Lane, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1TU
Prices start from £55.00 per room per night
To book online https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/499/Canterbury-Chaucer-Central-hotel

Premier Inn Canterbury City Centre
(within a five minute walk from the conference venue)
1-7 New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1UP
Prices start from £70.00 per room per night
To book online http://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/#!/hotels/england/kent/canterbury/canterbury-city-centre.html

Best Western Abbotts Barton Hotel
(within a ten minute walk from the conference venue)
36 New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3DU
Special conference rate £84.00 per night inclusive of breakfast.
To book please call 01227 760341+44-1227 760341 and quote “Canterbury Christ Church University”
http://www.bw-abbotsbartonhotel.co.uk/

Canterbury Cathedral Lodge
(within a five minute walk of the conference venue and within the cathedral grounds)
The Precincts, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2EH
Prices start from £93.00
To book online https://www.canterburycathedrallodge.org/

The Falstaff Hotel in Canterbury
(a fifteen minute walk to the conference venue)
8-10 St Dunstan's St, Canterbury, Kent CT2 8AF
Prices start from £89.00 per room per night
To book online http://www.thefalstaffincanterbury.com

Other Hotels in Canterbury
http://www.canterbury.co.uk/accommodation/

B&B's and Guest houses in Canterbury
Take a look at the wide range of quality bed & breakfasts and guesthouses in Canterbury. There are properties to suit all budgets.
http://www.canterbury.co.uk/accommodation/bed-breakfasts.aspx

Transport

Canterbury is a small city, all rail and bus stations are within a few minutes walking of most hotels. All have taxi ranks.

By Rail
Canterbury has two mainline railways stations, Canterbury West and Canterbury East.
You can get the high-speed train from London St. Pancras to Canterbury West which takes approximately one hour. Both stations are served by frequent trains to and from London Charing Cross, London Victoria (approximately 90 minutes) and elsewhere in Kent.
Or travel passengers getting off at Eurostar at Ashford International will find that Canterbury is just a 20-minute rail journey.
You can check all your journey options to Canterbury with GoEuro - the travel search engine that offers rail, coach and air travel.
For train information and prizes please look at ‘Network Southeastern’ or ‘theTrainline.com’.

By Coach
There are several coaches a day from London Victoria Coach Station to Canterbury Bus station. The journey takes approximately two hours. For further information, please see look at ‘National Express’.

By Road
The Canterbury district has excellent road links with the M20 (M25/M26) and M2 motorways providing easy links to London and its airports. The A2 and A260 connect Canterbury with the port of Dover and the Eurotunnel terminal in Cheriton near Folkestone.

Park and Ride
Canterbury Park and Ride is the greenest, cheapest and fastest way to get to the heart of the city and helps more than one million shoppers, commuters and visitors a year beat city centre congestion. The all-day Park and Ride fee is £3.00 and customers can park in one of the 1,800 spaces available across the three sites at New Dover Road, Sturry Road and Wincheap. Each site is conveniently situated on the main routes into the city. Buses run approximately every eight minutes, Monday to Saturday, from 7am to 7.30pm.

By air
London Airports are all approximately under two hours drive from Canterbury City Centre.

By sea
The Canterbury district is very close to mainland Europe. A day trip or stay is a great way to sample the continental atmosphere. Take the car ferry from Dover or take your vehicle through the Channel Tunnel from Folkestone.

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