Following the success of the first four series, the fifth conference will be held in Cappadocia, the beautiful and historic region of Turkey, once again hosted by the journal Anatolia. The conference aims to provide a forum for research collaboration and mentoring of emerging tourism researchers in order to share their research experience. This is an international organization; therefore, submissions from international scholars are highly encouraged.

The Graduate Research Conference provides researchers and/or graduate students with a choice of two types of paper submissions:

● Refereed full papers
● Extended abstracts of theses/dissertations

For the selection process, each type of submission has specific instructions, which must be followed as below:

Thesis/dissertations (max. 2,000 words): Open only for graduate students 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 literature. In addition to graduates currently enrolled, those who completed their degrees later than 01st January 2008 are also encouraged to submit an abstract.

Research papers (max. 5,000 words): Open both for graduate students and faculty who are encouraged to submit their regular conceptual or empirical papers. At least one author should be present at the conference to present. The authors are free to investigate any subject field they have enough knowledge, experience or research interests.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Thesis and dissertations:

Research papers:

SPECIAL AWARDS

This year’s special awards will be given in four different categories (http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/awards.htm). Using the initial reviewers' evaluations to shortlist potential awardees, the final award recipients will be selected based on their presentations at the conference.

In addition to the above, details of:

-- The conference keynote speakers can be found at: http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/speakers.htm

-- Information about the conference venue can be found at: http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/hotel.htm

-- List of publication opportunities can be found at: http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference/publication.htm

The conference will be running between Tuesday 25 and Saturday 29 May 2010 and will be hosted in the centre of Cappadocia. Hence, in addition to spending a very enjoyable days, we hope that you will also enjoy a very stimulating conference with delegates from across the world.