37.916, Calls: International Symposium on Tourism, Communication, and Translation (United Kingdom)

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Subject: 37.916, Calls: International Symposium on Tourism, Communication, and Translation (United Kingdom)

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Date: 04-Mar-2026
From: Gloria Cappelli [gloria.cappelli at unipi.it]
Subject: International Symposium on Tourism, Communication, and Translation


Full Title: 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 Person: Sofia Malamatidou
Meeting Email: tourctnetwork at gmail.com
Web Site:
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)

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2026

Call for Papers:
Plenary Speakers: Elena Manca (Università del Salento, Italy) -
Mihalis Kavaratzis (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
The TourCT (Tourism Translation and Communication) Network is
delighted to announce its first interdisciplinary event on the
construction of tourism narratives, hosted by the University of
Birmingham. You can find more information below or by visiting this
link:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/international-symposium-on-tourism-communication-and-translation.
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 interdisciplinary 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
Submission
Submissions must include:
Presenter(s) details: name, affiliation, email, and bionote (up to 150
words)
Anonymised abstract (up to 300 words excluding references) including a
title, clear outline of the aims and methods of the study as well as
(preliminary) results, and up to five keywords.
Please submit your proposal to tourctnetwork at gmail.com by 20 March.
Accepted papers will be confirmed by 1st May, and registration will
open in April. Any questions (or if you’d like to join the Network)
should be directed to tourctnetwork at gmail.com.



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