APTA 2025

July 7-9, 2025, Busan, Korea                                  

The 30th Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA) Annual Conference

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 23, 2025

Decision Notification: March 20, 2025

Final Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Early Bird Registration: May 15, 2025

Submissions

Submit THREE-Page Abstracts to the Chair of the Paper Review Committee,

Dr. SooCheong (Shawn) Jang (Purdue University, USA), or Co-Chair Dr. Myungkeun Song (Dong-ah University, Korea), at

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APTA2025

(This submission website will open on February 1, 2025)

Submission Guidelines

Authors Must submit a three-page ABSTRACT for review. All submissions to the APTA Conference must be original work not yet submitted to any other publication prior to the conference. (Authors are free to publish submitted work after the conference.) Submissions must be written in English and prepared in MS Word (2007 or later). PDF files of abstracts or full papers will not be accepted. All submissions should be free of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors. 

Abstract Guidelines

Abstracts (saved in MS WORD, Not PDF) must be THREE single-spaced pages long with the title of the paper centered at the top of the first page of each abstract. Ensure that No Author Names are included on the Abstract. Also, a cover page with the author’s information is NOT necessary. Authors will be asked to enter authors’ information directly on the submission website. Note that adding or deleting authors after the acceptance decision is not allowed. Each abstract should include an introduction, literature review, methodology, findings, implications and/or conclusions, and a list of references. Note that references are not included in the three-page limit. 

Thesis-in-Progress

APTA also invites graduate students to submit in-progress theses or dissertations. Selected graduate students will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a panel of scholars in HTM fields. More details about the Thesis-in-Progress session will be announced separately.

Final Submission, Best Paper Awards, and Proceedings

 For final submission, all authors must submit either a revised three-page abstract or, if they wish to be considered for the Best Paper Award, a Full paper instead of the three-page abstract. Best Paper Awards will be competitively selected by the Best Paper Selection Committee. Full papers should be limited to twenty single-spaced pages (MS Word only) including references.

The conference proceedings will be distributed on Flash Drives without an ISSN at the APTA conference. It is our policy that conference proceedings will include three-page abstracts or one-page abstracts for those who choose the one-page option, in order to avoid potential plagiarism issues as authors may publish the same or similar papers in other journals. However, it is still possible for authors to indicate on the submission website that they prefer to have their Full Papers included in the conference proceedings. In these cases, full papers will be included in the proceedings (However, please be aware of the potential for plagiarism issues).   

Please make sure to follow the suggested template, available on the conference website: https://www.apta2025.org

Areas of Interests 

• Advanced Research in Tourism and Hospitality
• Eco Tourism
• Medical Tourism
• Film and Drama Tourism
• Tourism in ASEAN and GMS
• Sustainable Tourism
• Tourism Planning and Policy
• Community Based Tourism
• Service Quality Management
• MICE
• Logistics
• Supply Chain Management
• Hotel Management
• Restaurant Management and operations
• Safety and Crisis Management
• Information Technology
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Any other subject area related to Tourism, Leisure, or Hospitality Management

Conference Venue

To be announced later

 Registration Fees