Call-for-Papers from the 4th H.O.T. & Food Conference in Nepal, 19 to 21 April 2025
Timothy J. Lee
Dear Outstanding Researchers in the fields of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure worldwide
The 4th H.O.T. & Food Conference
19 – 21 April 2025
Kathmandu, Nepal
We are delighted to announce that the 4th H.O.T. & Food Conference (Health-Oriented Tourism & Food) will be held at GATE (Global Academy of Tourism & Hospitality Education) in Kathmandu, Nepal from 19 to 21 April 2025. The due date of submitting your abstract is 20 March 2025.
This conference has previously been held biennially in Japan (2017), Malaysia (2019), and Thailand (2023) under the name of ICOHOTH (International Conference of Health-Oriented Tourism & Hospitality). The event now has a new name embracing many aspects of food science and will be hosted annually from 2025 due to the mounding demand for discussion of these topics.
We would love to invite those of you from academia, industry, governments, NGO’s, students, and associations who are interested in this fascinating field of health-oriented tourism, hospitality, food science, and leisure to exchange and develop state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on its development. All submitted abstracts will be subjected to a rigorous double-blind review process by an international scientific committee and will be published in the conference proceedings based on the reviewers’ recommendations.
Publication Opportunity: 15 to 20 selected best papers from the conference will be published in the International Journal of Tourism Research (Q1 in SSCI, impact factor 4.1, published by Wiley in the UK) by 31 May 2025, in a fast-track publication process. If you want your work to be considered one of the best papers of the conference, you should submit the full paper (not exceeding 10,000 words all inclusive) by 31 March to hotfo...@outlook.com, in addition to submitting a 300-word abstract.
There will be Open-Topic Sessions (OTS) that welcome and discuss other general topics in tourism, hospitality, events, leisure, food, and management, which are not specifically fit the topics listed above. Any OTS & online participants are also equally eligible to contend for best papers.
Conference Topics:
The organizing committee welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) topics:
- Aged care management to promote tourist destinations;
- Animal wellness in the tourism industry;
- Cosmetic surgery and tourism;
- Culinary tourism; Gourmet tourism; Gastronomic tourism; Food tourism;
- Health tourism, Healthcare tourism, Health service tourism; Healing tourism/hospitality;
- Healthy/Nutritious food as a tourism promotion/development resource;
- Hospital management including the tourism industry;
- Local cuisine as tourist destination iconic attractions; Local food and heritage; Local food as local identity
- LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) and tourism;
- Meditation, Religious retreat, Spiritual health,
- Medical tourism; Dental tourism;
- Meditel; Medical/Wellness accommodation;
- Mental health care and therapy; Mental care;
- Other themes related to health-oriented tourism/hospitality/leisure/food.
- Phytoncide as a tourism resource; Deep-sea water development for health products;
- Rehabilitation center, Wellness town development;
- Ryokan and Hot springs (Onsen in Japan);
- Sauna development as a tourist attraction;
- Service innovation in hospitals;
- Smart food development; Smart hospital; ICT for health promotion;
- Spa tourism; Spa resort; Spa management/development;
- Thai massage, and many local wellness resources in different countries;
- Tourism & happiness; Positive psychology; Tourism & quality of life;
- Tourism for the handicapped/disadvantaged;
- Tourism/hospitality for longevity; Longevity town development;
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayuveda as tourism resources;
- Wellness tourism, Well-being tourism, Wellness resort;
- Yoga, Acupuncture, and Acupressure in/with tourism industry……. & More
· Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of Abstract (up to 300 words): 20 March 2025.
Notice of acceptance: by 25 March 2025.
Last day for early-bird registration: 31 March 2025.
· Registration Fees:
Early-bird rate for a student (by 31 March): $250 (in person)*, $200 (on-line).
General rate for a student (from 1 April): $320 (in person)*, $250 (on-line).
Early-bird rate for academics/practitioners (by 31 March): $350 (in person)*, $280 (on-line).
General rate for academics/practitioners (from 1 April): $420 (in person)*, $335 (on-line).
Flat rate of International Journal of Tourism Research editorial board member: $250 (in person), $200 (on-line).
*Includes conference proceedings, access to full conference sessions, conference meals, and gala dinner, excluding accommodation.
*All rates are in US Dollars.
For all inquiries, contact the Chair of the Conference Organizing Committee:
Timothy Lee, Ph.D.
Email: hotfo...@outlook.com
Please refer to the attached file and the website for details of the conference. More information will be provided in due course. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and full papers welcoming you to the 4th H.O.T. Food conference in Nepal!
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Kind regards,
Prof. Timothy Lee 李鼎烈教授
酒店與旅遊管理學院 副院長/ Vice Dean, Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management
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