Tropical Tourism Outlook Conference - Programme

Tropical Tourism Outlook Conference Sri Lanka 2014 - Held at the Heritance Kandalama Hotel, Dambulla, Sri Lanka, 8 to 10 August 2014 his conference is the seventh in the  Tourism Outlook Conference  series, and the first in that series to be held outside of Malaysia. It also incorporates the third conference on  Tropical Coastal and Island Tourism .  The theme of the conference is  Nature, Culture and Networking for Sustainable Tourism  and focuses on the role of networking in creating effective local responses to the challenges of conserving natural and cultural resources in a tourism context. The island of  Sri Lanka  provides an ideal venue to address these issues.  Conference Sponsors Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (SUSL),  Department of Tourism Management Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam (UiTM),  Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Malaysia Northern Arizona University (NAU),  Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, USA International Geographical Union (IGU),  Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change Tourism Geographies  journal (TG),  Routledge, UK