[ecrea] CfPs: JDMM Special Issue on Marketing and Branding of Conflict-Ridden Destinations

*Guest editors*

/Erdinç Çakmak/and /Rami K. Isaac/

Academy for Tourism, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, the
Netherlands

In this special issue the focus will be on the various types of
conflict-ridden destinations and their contextual issues. Authors are
invited to submit original papers on the following topics focused on the
current and post-conflict ridden destinations worldwide:

·Case studies of destination marketing and branding in inter-state and
intra state conflict-ridden areas

·New types of tourism, e.g. political tourism, justice tourism,
battlefield tourism, dark tourism

·Correcting negative image of conflict-ridden destinations

·Destination marketing during and/or after a crisis (e.g. political
disaster, natural disaster, war)

·Destination marketing of contested places

·Destination marketing of places with social and/or environmental problems

·Tourists’ past experiences after visiting conflict-ridden destinations

·Tourists’ expectations, motivations of visiting conflict-ridden places

·Understanding the ways in which the language of violence/conflict
operates in and through tourism, whether is symbolic, spoken, visual or
virtual

·To what extent can tours, stimulate post-trip connections with the
individual or group visited? And the benefits of any connection

**

*Key deadlines*

·Interested authors should email their abstract (200-300 words) or
proposal to

Erdinç Çakmak at *(Cakmak.e /at/ nhtv.nl)* <mailto:(Cakmak.e /at/ nhtv.nl)>**on or
before *May 10, 2015*

·Authors will be notified no later than May 30, 2015 on the decision
over their

abstracts.

·Full articles (approximately 5,000 – 7,000 words) should be submitted by

*January 31, 2016. *The format of guidelines is provided on the journal
webpage.

·All articles will undergo blind review by at least two reviewers.

·The anticipated date for publication of the Special Issue is
*September, 2016.*

Please feel free to share this call with your students,  your colleagues
who are working on a related topic on destination marketing of
conflict-ridden places. For any further queries you can contact me.
Looking forward to your contributions and I remain.

Sincerely,

Rami Isaac

__________________________________________

Dr Rami K. Isaac

Senior Lecturer in Tourism

http://nhtv.academia.edu/RamiIsaac

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