Programme

A day by day programme will be available shortly before the workshop starts

The program will consist of multi-disciplinary sessions and discussions in plenum. Abstract submissions are welcome from the following interdisciplinary fields:

1. Psychological understandings of climate change and tourism mobilities:

• Climate change attitudes and perceptions
• Psychological benefits of tourism mobilities
• Addictive elements to travel/social norming effects
• Overcoming attitude-behaviour gaps, cognitive dissonance
• The psychology of rail travel versus air travel
• The psychology of speed and travel time
• Industry perspectives: psychological foundations and interventions

2. Behavioural:

• Social practices and societal norms that foster mobility
• Influencing behaviour/behaviour interventions
• New technologies
• Ensuring behaviour change is sustained long-term
• Economics of travel behaviour
• Modal shifts

3. Governance and policies based upon psychological, behavioural and social mechanisms:

• Fostering slow travel
• Encouraging modal shifts
• Harnessing new technology/social media/persuasive technologies
• Governing the travel psyche
• Where to target interventions (e.g., questions of demography)
• Mitigation policies
• Removing psychological barriers with policy makers to go for stronger mitigation policies
• Social marketing
• Mechanisms fostering hypermobility (LCC “bargains”, envy, FFPs)

Disciplines from which contributions may be derived include for instance psychology, psychological economics, neuro-psychology, tourism studies, transport studies, sociology, social anthropology, or marketing.