Further to the success of the first five series, the sixth conference will be held in Fethiye, the nature and culture-oriented region of Turkey, once again hosted by the journal Anatolia. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for research collaboration and mentoring of emerging tourism researchers in order to share their research experience. The organising committee invites scholars from tourism studies and the wider social sciences to join. Papers can be submitted for the following two categories:
Thesis/dissertations: Open only for graduate students (e.g. Masters, MBA, MPhil, PhD) to reflect the summary of their thesis or dissertations in terms of the development of hypotheses and methodology and showing the way how it may contribute to the existing literature.
Research papers: Open both for graduates and faculty members who are encouraged to submit both their work-in-progress or completed papers designed either as conceptual or empirical. This category welcomes the submisison of papers with single or multiple author/s

Charles Goeldner University of Colorado at Boulder, USA	Chris Ryan University of Waikato, New Zealand	Rick Perdue Virginia Tech, USA	John Fletcher Bournemouth University, UK	Christian Laesser University of St. Gallen, Switzerland