Tourism, Leisure and Global Change - Introduction and Preface for Volume 1, 2014

About this Publication: Tourism, Leisure and Global Change serve as the collective Proceedings to publish papers and abstracts for all academic meetings for which the Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change of the International Geographical Union is an official sponsor. These include both IGU congress and regional meetings, and other more topically focused meetings. Support: Tourism, Leisure and Global Change is generously supported by the MSSc Sustainable Tourism Programme, in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. For Readers: We encourage readers to sign up for the publishing notification service for this journal. Use the Register link at the top of the homepage for the journal at http://IGUTourism.com. This registration will result in the reader receiving the Table of Contents by email for each new issue of the journal. This list also allows the journal to claim a certain level of support or readership. See the journal's Privacy Statement which assures readers that their name and email address will not be used for other purposes. For Authors: We only accept papers that have been presented at IGU Tourism Commission sponsored conferences. Please contact the editors and guest editors if you have a question about this. We recommend that all authors review the About the Journal page at http://IGUTourism.com/About for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting, or if already registered can simply log in and begin the 5 step process. For Librarians: We encourage libraries to list this open access journal among its electronic journal holdings. This publishing system is also designed to be hosted and operated by research libraries in support of the journal publishing work of its associated faculty. For more information on using Open Journal Systems to manage and publish peer-reviewed journals, see Public Knowledge Project at http://pkp.sfu.ca . Editorial Team Editors: Dr. Alan A. Lew, Northern Arizona University, United States Dr. Lawal Mohammed Marafa, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dr. Dieter Klaus Muller, Umea University, Sweden Dr. Jarkko Saarinen, University of Oulu, Finland Guest Editor: Dr. Nor'ain Othman, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia Preface - a Note from the Editors Welcome to the first edition of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change. As described above, the publications contains the proceedings for all of the conferences supported by the IGU Tourism Commission supported conferences. Not all of those conferences have proceedings, and some may prefer to publish their proceedings separately. However, for the rest, this is where they will eventually show up. This is not an academic journal. Papers undergo a basic review by the Editors and Guest Editors to ensure acceptable standard grammar for their native language and formatting. They do not go through an anonymous review process. There is only one issue and volume annually. New material is added to the journal as it become ready for publication. Each conference will be placed in a separate section of the publication. This can happen at any time of the year. At the end of the calendar year, the publication will be closed and a new issue and volume will be started. One final note: the website for Tourism, Leisure and Global Change is http://IGUTourism.com - whereas the website for the IGU Tourism Commission is: http://IGUTourism.org . Hopefully that will be not too confusing for people, though we also encourage our readers to become familiar with both the Commission and this publication. COVER PHOTO: Sunrise on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia - by Alan A. Lew