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. 

Early 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. 

The hashtag for this book project is #Tournesol