Almatourism announces a new Call for papers on Sacred landscapes:

IUCN UNESCO Guidelines [ http://sacrednaturalsites.org/items/sacred-natural-sites-guidelines-for-protected-area-managers/ ] for the Conservation and Management of Sacred Natural Sites defines the term "Sacred site" as areas of special spiritual significance to peoples and communities; and the term of "Sacred natural site" corresponds to the areas of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and communities. In this special issue Almatourism by University of Bologna, we intend to focus on “Sacred landscapes”, understood as those areas where nature-culture linkages are represented by the spiritual values that communities assign to their holy environments. The "sacred landscapes" are of high cultural value and these values have to be considered and analyzed in all their many aspects.

Language: english

Paper submission Deadline: September 30, 2017

Editor: Fiorella Dallari (University of Bologna)

Co-Editor: Olimpia Niglio (ISSR Monte Berico, Pontificia Facoltà Teologica Marianum)

Contacts: olimpia.niglio@gmail.com

Almatourism announces a new Call for papers:

“Fashion between Heritage and Tourism”

Through this call we would like to take stock of the studies and researches about this topic, collecting contributions from different disciplines that may contextualize this field that includes various industry sectors. Indeed, the intersection between two worlds such as fashion and tourism, is in the junction of cultural industries, that includes cultural heritage, museums, libraries, archives and a series of activities on quality of life and creative ones that originate creativity and include advertising, film and video, architecture, music, art and antique markets, live entertainment, computer and video games, publishing, crafts, software, design, television, radio and fashion. It is just the multidisciplinary aspect, intrinsic to the idea of creativity, that hasn’t led, even today, any univocal definition for cultural and creative industries. Its establishment, as a matter of fact, stills an open question. In this sense, the development of fashion tourism, so rich in research evolving paths, can contribute to the specification of this new industrial sector.

We welcome papers across a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, architecture, business, communication, cultural studies, heritage studies, history, geography, media, museum studies, sociology, statistics, tourism, urban studies.

Authors are invited to submit original papers on the following topics, but not limited to:

- Itineraries of Fashion;

- Fashion and Local Development;

- Fashion, culture and tourism;

- Fashion objects and the value of places;

- Fashion and Sustainable Tourism;

- Creative Tourism;

- Fashion and Cultural Policies;

- Fashion and Handicraft;

- Fashion Districts;

- Cities of Fashion;

- Fashion Show and Tourism;

- Fashion and Intangible Heritage;

- Fashion and Cultural Development;

- Practical Experiences related to Fashion;

- Places of Fashion;

- Fashion practices and Quality of life;

- Slow Tourism and Slow Fashion;

-Temporary shop, Show room and E-commerce.

Submission of abstracts: April 30, 2017

Submission of full papers: June 30, 2017

Expected publication: October 21, 2017

Guest Editor: Daniela Calanca

Scientific Committee: Patrizia Battilani, Fiorella Dallari, Alessia Mariotti, Federica Muzzarelli, Chiara Rabbiosi

Recently, in the mailing list TRINET-L@lists.hawaii.edu, dr. Salem Harahsheh (University of Yarmouk) has addressed serious claims of plagiarism against a not specified article published in Almatourism. After contacting dr. Harahsheh for further clarifications, we identified the mentioned article in Sawsan Khries’ "Evaluation of Usage and Management of Pilgrimage Sites in Israel and Jordan: a Comparative Study" published in the non-peer reviewed section of the Journal  “Articles and reports” intended for works in progress. 

According to our editorial policies, the Journal editorial team analyzed Khries’ article, also with the help of specific software for plagiarism detection.

The result of the analysis revealed that in its descriptive parts, the article contains many passages taken from third party publications, but the author provides credits for them according to APA citation style, both in the text and in the final references. The conclusion of the paper appears to be completely original.

All facts considered and given the merely descriptive and informative scope of the short passages taken from non-scientific web site, containing elementary list of basic data or facts of common knowledge, in our opinion, the article “Evaluation of Usage and Management of Pilgrimage Sites in Israel and Jordan: a Comparative Study” by Sawsan Khries is not to be considered a plagiarism.

The Editor of Almatourism

Fiorella Dallari