37.459, Confs: International Symposium on Tourism, Communication, and Translation (United Kingdom)

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Date: 30-Jan-2026
From: Gloria Cappelli [gloria.cappelli at unipi.it]
Subject: International Symposium on Tourism, Communication, and Translation


International Symposium on Tourism, Communication, and Translation
Theme: Constructing Tourism Narratives: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Tourism Communication as Mediation

Date: 04-Sep-2026 - 04-Sep-2026
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Contact: Sofia Malamatidou
Contact Email: tourctnetwork at gmail.com
Meeting URL:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/international-symposium-on-tourism-communication-and-translation

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Submission Deadline: 20-Mar-2026

Communication is essential to tourism. International tourism
particularly, is situated at the crossroads of language, culture,
marketing communication, and “worldmaking”.
As destinations compete for visibility in an increasingly global and
digital environment, where traveller expectations shift rapidly, where
the challenges for destinations in terms of sustainability and
managing tourism responsibility become imperative, the ability to
mediate experiences and translate local identity into compelling and
meaningful narratives for diverse audiences has become a central
strategic function, where communication and translation (understood
broadly) play a critical role in generating positive outcomes.
This international symposium organised by the Tourism, Communication,
and Translation (TourCT) Network aims to bring together scholars and
practitioners from linguistics, translation, tourism studies,
marketing, communication studies, and other disciplines that focus on
tourism as a study context to explore how language, interaction and
discourse function as a mediating force in tourism.
By examining tourism communication through multiple disciplinary
lenses, we aim to demonstrate that, despite methodological and
conceptual differences, we all engage with the same communicative
object: the construction, circulation, and communication or promotion
of tourism destinations, products, and experiences. We seek to
identify points of contact, similarities, and differences among the
disciplines, and to understand how their distinct tools, methods, and
analytical frameworks contribute to the same overarching goal: to make
destinations, products, and experiences visible, appreciated, and
chosen.
The event will serve as a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue,
collaborative research design, and the official launch of the
multi-institutional network devoted to tourism communication and
translation that is TourCT.
Topics:
We invite submissions on one or more of the following topics, though
the list is by no means exhaustive. We particularly invite submissions
that adopt interdisciplinary approaches (e.g. examining how linguistic
analyses inform marketing strategies and/or how marketing insights
reshape translation and communication practices).
Linguistics and Translation:
 - Tourism discourse as mediation and meaning-making
 - Lexical, pragmatic, and multimodal features of tourism
communication
 - Translation strategies and challenges in tourism texts
 - Intercultural communication and framing of local identities
 - Accessibility and inclusive tourism communication
Marketing, Tourism, and Communication Studies:
 - Destination branding and narrative construction, making places and
worlds
 - Strategic communication and storytelling for attraction
 - Discourse of social media, influencers, and digital tourism
promotion
 - The language of user-generated content and its impact on
destination image
 - Customer experience as multi-sensory communication



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