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CALL FOR PAPERS

Sacred and Secular Life-Changing Journeys
Advances in Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research, Volume 7

Paper submission deadline is 25 September 2012

Advances in Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research (ACTHR) broadly seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to living and making major and everyday choices from where-to-live, how culture affects thinking and actions; marriage, children; work choices and behavior; leisure pursuits; holiday destination; travel behavior; making tradeoffs among work, play, sleeping, and necessity behaviors; deciding, using, and evaluating short and long term accommodations; decisions and behaviors regarding assisted living and death. ACTHR promotes synergies among culture, work, leisure, tourism, and hospitality scholars and focuses on examining individuals and households lived experiences and their cultural and personal antecedents and consequences. Most papers appearing in ACTHR offer advances both in theory and empirical evidence; empirical reports include interpretive, positivistic, or mixed research designs.

A subsequent volume examines how research tools affect theory advances in culture and tourism research. Volume 4 provides specific answers to hard questions about how to create valid metrics to measure the effectiveness of tourism advertising and the usefulness of destination marketing websites. Volume 5 provides an accurate and useful assessment of tourism market opportunities, network behavior, and tourism destination management performance requires solid foundations in performance evaluation theory as well as applying metrics covering both sense making contexts and outcomes.

This new volume focuses on orientations toward the life-changing sacred/secular journey, its meaning for participants and stakeholders, and its impact on the commercial infrastructure.

A second focus is on the dynamics of life-changing sacred/secular journeys: the impact of journey participation on lifestyle and belief systems; new typologies of the varieties of sacred journeys; the usefulness of implicit message content in promoting the destination’s proposition and brand story; sacred journeys and social and economic change.

The theoretical issues on which this new volume of Advances in Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research, Volume 7 centers include:

• The study of unconscious thinking and of its influence on travel behavior;
• The extent to which the intrinsic essence of pilgrimage sites attracts and creates enjoyment;
• The role of sensual, cognitive and affective experiences in building tourists’ personal understandings and storytelling;
• The domain of the sacred and the profane, and their importance to marketing theory;
• How an interpretive anthropology or sociology contribute to an understanding of the sacred within a broad cultural and symbolic domain.

For this new volume of ACTHR we invite contributions from scholars in disciplines relating to culture, tourism, and hospitality, whose research is useful for and accessible to general tourism and hospitality audiences in addressing one or more of the following topics:

• The application of the concept of sustainability as a means of evaluating and managing tourism growth;
• The relationship between sustainability, self-concept and social status on the relevance of the sacred/secular journey for the participant;
• How tourists build cognitive and affective images that may influence their overall perceptions of a destination;
• Decision-making in relation to actual participation in a life-changing sacred/secular journey;
• The socio-psychological significance of the journey as a medium through which specific needs can be satisfied, for example the sacred/secular journey as a rite de passage or pathway to identity, meaning or self-realization;
• Typologies of sacred journeys in terms of levels of sacrality, the permanent and transitory nature of sites and the construction of meaning;
• The impact of journey participation on lifestyle and belief systems;
• What role do archetype enactment, myth and storytelling have on meaning for the participant?
• Sacred journeys and social change;
• Multiple sources of meaningfulness in secular pilgrimages;
• Non-religious expressions of sacrality and spirituality;
• The relationship between the level of involvement among secular pilgrims, their information search and the likelihood of elaboration during the pre- and post-visit stages;
• The visual, mnemotechnic, and architectonic effects on a tourist’s experience.

Guest editors of this volume are Stephen Lloyd, Auckland University of Technology, and Arch G. Woodside, Boston College. Interested researchers should submit their papers, and a cover letter that briefly clarifies the relevance of their work to the above-mentioned topics. Please make submissions and address all inquiries to Stephen Lloyd (Stephen.Lloyd@aut.ac.nz) and to Arch G. Woodside (arch.woodside@bc.edu).

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