About This Event

Congress on Anatolian Landscape and Faith Tourism: Ancient Times to Present will be held with the support of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey's leading universities, public institutions and professional organizations, in cooperation with world-renowned respected academics, researchers, industry representatives and professionals, by Atilim University (Turkey), Cappadocia University (Turkey), University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) and The Association of Turkish Tourism Academics.

The Conference on “ANATOLIAN LANDSCAPE AND FAITH TOURISM: ANCIENT TIMES TO PRESENT (ALFT'22)” will be held in order to put forward the values and potential of faith tourism from past to present by synthesizing with many branches of science such as archeology, anthropology, ethnology, geography, architecture, art history and museology, and to introduce and share the richness of Anatolia in this regard between 25-28 August 2022 in centered of Ankara and Cappadocia, Turkey. Especially in terms of the increase in the touristic demand for Turkey, we are honored to see you among us and we look forward to your participation in our conference, which aims to highlight the very high potential values of Anatolia in the history of religions and faith tourism and to deal with tourism science and practices with respect and tolerance within the scope of academic and sectoral dimensions.

The Conference on Anatolian Landscape and Faith Tourism: Ancient Times to Present will be held with the support of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey's leading universities, public institutions and professional organizations, in cooperation with world-renowned respected academics, researchers, industry representatives and professionals, by Atilim University (Turkey), Cappadocia University (Turkey), University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) and The Association of Turkish Tourism Academics.

All kinds of multidisciplinary papers related to faith tourism in English and Turkish will be accepted by our conference. Paper acceptance will be done in the form of an extended abstract or a full-text. All papers will be evaluated through double-blind review process. The best paper awards will be given to the first three paper owners as a result of the evaluation of the Conference Scientific Committee. The extended abstract submission deadline is May 15, 2022.

Papers presented in our conference will be published by the University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing in the form of an internationally edited book.

For detailed information about the conference, you can visit our website www.faithtourism.org, for questions you can always contact us via our e-mail info@faithtourism.org

We wish our conference to be beneficial to all academics and professionals, and we would like to state that we are honored to invite you to this historic meeting.

Committees

• President
  • Muzaffer UYSAL (Ph.D.) 
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
• President
  • İbrahim BİRKAN (Ph.D.)
    • Atilim University (Turkey)
• President
  • Cevdet Avcıkurt (Ph.D.)
    • The Association of Turkish Tourism Academics
• President
  • Hasan Ali KARASAR (PhD.)
    • Cappadocia University (Turkey)
• Coordinator
  • Özlem KÖROĞLU (Ph.D.)
    • Balıkesir University (Turkey)
• Honor Committee
  • Mehmet Nuri ERSOY
    • Rebuplic of Turkey Minister of Culture and Tourism
  • President of Turkish Union of Tourist Guides' Chambers
  • President of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies
  • Prof. Mehmet Yıldırm ÜÇTUĞ
    • Rector of Atilim University
  • Prof. Hasan Ali KARASAR
    • Rector of Cappadocia University
  • Prof. M. Öcal OĞUZ
    • President of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO
• Organizing Committee
  • Doğan ACAR
    • Former Ankara Provincial Director of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  • Assoc. Dr. Özlem GÜZEL
    • Akdeniz University (Turkey)
  • Assoc. Dr. Tolga Fahri ÇAKMAK
    • Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University (Turkey)
  • Assoc. Dr. Halil Burak SAKAL
    • Cappadocia University (Turkey)
  • Assist. Prof. Dr. Alaattin BAŞODA
    • Aksaray University (Turkey)
  • Assist. Prof. Dr. Gül Nihan Güven YEŞİLDAĞ
    • Beykent University (Turkey)
  • Assist. Prof. Dr. Kemal Gürkan KÜÇÜKERGİN
    • Atilim University (Turkey)
  • Dr. F. Buğra ERDAL
    • Atilim University (Turkey)
• Secretariat
  • Lecturer Emrullah CANSU
    • Cappadocia University (Turkey)
  • Research Assistant Hasret ULUSOY
    • Balıkesir University (Turkey)