9th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure 

Further to the success of its earlier series, this conference will be held in Cartagena, Spain, hosted by the journal Anatolia and Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for research collaboration and mentoring of emerging tourism researchers in order to share their research experience. The organising committee invites scholars from tourism studies and the wider social sciences to join. Papers can be submitted for the following two categories:

• Thesis/dissertations: Open only for graduate students (e.g. MA, Msc, MBA, MPhil, PhD) to reflect the summary of their thesis or dissertations in terms of the development of hypotheses and methodology and showing the way how it may contribute to the existing literature.
• Research papers: Open both for graduates and faculty members who are encouraged to submit both their work-in-progress or completed papers designed either as conceptual or empirical. This category welcomes the submisison of papers with single or multiple author/s.