Call for chapters

 Call for chapters

 

Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism

What will tourism look like in the 2030s? Tourism destination development will take sustainability as a given. Social media and emerging technologies will be integrated in the stories of co-created visitor experience. Are you working in these converging areas?  

Following the success of our research monograph with Routledge and its teaching companion, we are looking for contributors for a new collection.

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Chapters of up to 8000 words, including references. Each chapter to explore a tourism or hospitality development as a case study with details of underpinning theory. Provide example questions and answers for students, and PowerPoint® slides for lecturers to use your chapter in their modules.  

Timeline for Chapter Submission

28 May 2025 Call for Chapter Proposals on LinkedIn and via direct emails

30 June 2025 Closing date for chapter proposal of up to 150 words.

Thursday 3 July 2025 Initial approval and request for draft*

Monday 21 July 2025 *Draft = First 2000 words, Section headings, and first 5 main references to academic journal articles and textbooks. Contributor to upload as a Microsoft WORD docx to the shared OneDrive folder. Please use Times New Roman font, 12 pt., single-space. Please write and spellcheck in English (United Kingdom) if you normally write in British English. Use US English if that is your usual academic language. Only submissions in English accepted. Do not use AI, AI will be automatically detected and rejected.

By Thursday 31 July 2025 Final confirmation to proceed with writing your full text, including any comments, requests and suggestion from the editors.

Thursday 21 August 2025 Final deadline for submission of full chapter text up to 8000 words with full list of References. Aim for 7500 words approximately, this includes your list of References. Please include 2 questions for students at the end of your chapter. (1) a formative question with your suggested answer and (2) a longer, summative project or essay-type question. Use your 2 questions to lead the students back into the text of your chapter, please. 

While you are waiting for feedback, please create a PowerPoint and Slide Script for your chapter. These will be used to help lecturers use your chapter in their teaching. The publisher will offer the PowerPoint and Slide Script as a download under their Resources for Instructors. These will be offered as CC-BY. 

Please upload as usual and let the editors know. 
Follow this page for updates, please
https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/call-for-chapters.html

Guidelines and Suggestions for Writing your Complete Chapter

Include full references to journal articles or academic textbooks. Give their DOI: too if you can find it. Use APA (7th) Style for your inline references, and for the References list at the end of your chapter. Like this example, please:

Mansfield, C., Séraphin, H., Wassler, P., Potočnik Topler, J. (2025). Travel Writing as a Tool for Sustainable Initiatives: Proposing a Dialogue Journaling Process Model. Journal of Travel Research, 64(2), 485-493. DOI: 10.1177/00472875241269902

Try to avoid references to websites by re-writing and explaining their content if possible. Often you can find a document rather than a webpage that you can reference instead. Before sending in your full chapter, use Control-F to find each of your References to make sure that they are in the list of references at the end of your chapter. Then vice-versa, to make sure that all those in your list are cited within the body.  Or, try the online application from reciteworks.com, which does both of those checks. 

Finally, set and provide model answers for 2 questions for students, aim for second year undergraduate students, that is UK Higher Education Level 5 to Level 6. And prepare a PowerPoint of 14 or 15 slides with a script. We can give you access to an example of these to provide you with some guidance and ideas. Deadline for these Q&As is by the end of Wednesday 3 September 2025, please. 

Deadline for your PowerPoint is Wednesday 29 October 2025. If you have the opportunity to try it in your own teaching first, and make any adjustments then that would be much appreciated  

Language: Please write in UK English or US English, whichever you feel more comfortable in using. 

Book production timeline continued

By late September 2025, we hope to have received a report from the publishers on what is necessary to proceed to the next stage in the preparation of the manuscripts. A decison will also be made on which chapters the publisher wishes to include. 

UPDATES - 29.09.25 the publishers emailed the editors to say that first external review will be with us before the end of this week. 

02.10.25 First external review of the proposed book is excellent. The book project will be put to the publisher's editorial panel in week-commencing 06.10.25. Can you now submit a short, academic bio, please? This is for publication, so please include the name you use for your academic work, your organisational link and either a recent publication or your current research interest, like this example below. Deadline for bio is Thursday 9th October 2025, please.

Dr Charles Mansfield is an independent academic, teaching in universities since 1995. He is a freelance researcher and writer, regularly running summer schools for literary travel writers and destination managers through his consultancy, Dialogue HE. Charles completed a major, funded research project for the CNRS with the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in digital heritage management and was a research academic with the University of Edinburgh from January 2005 until July 2009 where he successfully completed an AHRC-funded research project to digitise mediaeval literary texts. He is the co-author of Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place Writing Methodologies published with Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 

October 2025, the publisher will begin copy-editing and within 2 to 3 weeks will ask individual contributors to respond to typesetting, typographical changes, and some re-wording based on their proof-reading and copy-tasting reports. We will aim to give you more precise dates nearer the time. 

17.10.2025 Call for Index Entries -   We are delighted to announce the good news that the publishers, Routledge (Taylor & Francis) have approved the book proposal to go through to the round of selecting chapters and editing. We have a provisional list of 18 chapters, and the introduction. Thank you to everyone who sent their short bio profile. Deadline for your Index Entries is Wednesday 22 October 2025.

 We would now like you to send us a WORD document, please, with a list of index entries for your chapter. I anticipate about 30-40 words in your list. You can see my index entries for my chapter here, please click to download example.

Simply put one entry per line, these can be single words, 2-word or 3-word phrases, second names of key theorists or novelists with their initials, company or package names. Please arrange into alphabetical order.  

When we have more news from the publisher we will update this call webpage on Travel Writers Online. We do anticipate that the publisher will make copy-editing changes and will ask every contributor to respond to corrections after proof-reading. We do not have a date for that yet.

30.10.2025 Update to Book Publication Project: Routledge acknowledged receipt of the full texts and abstracts of all our chapters on Thursday 29th October 2025. They say they need 10 weeks to review and set the whole book into a single document. We project this to be ready on 8th January 2026. 

Routledge have asked for details of all the tables, photographs and figures to ensure that individual contributors have copyright or have written signed permission. We might contact you if we need a letter or form from you for this but I feel we have been careful to anticipate this requirement. 

It is likely that a proofing editor from Routledge will ask you for corrections, too; at the moment I think that will happen near the end of their review, early in January 2026. I hope it is a little sooner but we are in their hands now. 

We’re pleased with the index entries. Thank you for your work on that. I am investigating software that will extract page numbers based on our complete index. If you know of a package do, please, let me know. I have found this one - TExtract from the Netherlands https://www.texyz.com/textract/index.htm

The hashtag for this book project is #Tournesol