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5th International Adventure Conference

19. bis 21. Oktober 2016

Tralee, Irland

‘Wild Journeys’

The Adventure Tourism Research Association is delighted to be in partnership with the Institute of Technology Tralee to host the fifth International Adventure Conference. To be held this year on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way (http://www.wildatlanticway.com/home/), it promises, perhaps, to be the most ‘out there’ yet. The four previous events in Scotland, Norway and England have attracted a truly worldwide audience, with participants from 22 countries attending the last conference in Sheffield. We aim to bring together leading academics and industry practitioners to learn about and to debate burning issues in nature-based and adventure tourism, outdoor recreation and outdoor learning - from marketing and entrepreneurship to philosophical issues… all themed around something close to our hearts: ‘The Journey to Elsewhere’.

This fifth conference heads off on a different tack, opening up the conversation about what adventure is, was, and could be, within the conceptual frame of the journey (acknowledging a conceptual debt owed here to a wonderful conference: Whose journeys, where and why? held some years ago, led by Barbara Humberstone).

More information here