Consumer Behavior in Tourism Symposium (CBTS 2016)

The ninth Annual Consumer Behavior in Tourism Symposium (CBTS 2016) on the theme "Experiences, Emotions and Memories: New Directions in Tourism Research" is organized by the Competence Centre in Tourism Management and Tourism Economics (TOMTE), Free University of Bozen/Bolzano at Bruneck/Brunico, December 14th to 17th.

The Symposium will be jointly organized with the tenth Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Research Symposium (CPTHL2016).

This special event will provide an opportunity for tourism researchers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange scientific ideas and results and discuss new and emerging directions in research and practice in the field.

The scope of CBTS2016 encompasses, in particular:
1. Experiences, Emotions and Memories: Theoretical and methodological advancements addressing the complexity of the constructs; Investigations of the quests for extraordinary, surprising and memorable tourism experiences; Examinations of social memory in tourism.
2. Measurements of Tourism Experiences’ Emotions: Current methods and recent advancements in the measurements of tourism experiences’ emotions; Emotions’ scales and self-reported methods; Psychophysiological techniques to measure emotions and their applicability to tourism research.
3. Memorable Tourism Experiences: Investigations of the factors that characterize memorable tourism experiences; The role of narratives in memories’ creation and retention; Journeys through tourism memories.

Further information is available on the website of the event.