The AAG-TLM offers an award for the best student paper(s) presented at the conference. This award is open to TLM student members at both the Master’s and PhD levels.
Eligibility Criteria & Deadlines
To be eligible, you must:
Members of the AAG-TLM board will review each submission.
*Students are encouraged to submit a single-authored paper. However, we will accept
papers co-authored with other students. We cannot accept papers co-authored with
non-students (e.g., supervisors or other faculty).
Papers should be submitted to AAG-TLM Chair, Tara Duncan ([email protected]). In the
subject heading, please write: AAG-TLM Student Paper Award Submission.
Please note that the maximum word count is 10,000 including the abstract,
manuscript, tables and references.
Instructions for paper submission
Please also include a Cover Page, with the following information:
1. Name
2. Affiliation
3. Paper title
Eligibility Criteria & Deadlines
To be eligible, you must:
- be enrolled as a graduate student by the AAG’s official abstract submission date
- submit a published or publishable quality research paper - Deadline: December
Members of the AAG-TLM board will review each submission.
*Students are encouraged to submit a single-authored paper. However, we will accept
papers co-authored with other students. We cannot accept papers co-authored with
non-students (e.g., supervisors or other faculty).
Papers should be submitted to AAG-TLM Chair, Tara Duncan ([email protected]). In the
subject heading, please write: AAG-TLM Student Paper Award Submission.
Please note that the maximum word count is 10,000 including the abstract,
manuscript, tables and references.
Instructions for paper submission
Please also include a Cover Page, with the following information:
1. Name
2. Affiliation
3. Paper title
Past Student Paper Award Recipients
2026
Xiaoyun Neo, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Paper title: Neo, Xiaoyun, Baharuddin, Aswin, and Sunardi, Nur Fadilah. Elephant Economics: Conditions for benefiting from Elephant Tourism Market in an upland Karen (Paganyaw) village.
Ali Mert Ipek, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University
of Manchester, UK. Paper title: A ‘Green Road’ to Rural Development: State,
Infrastructure, and Tourism in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Region.
2025
Nora Müller, University of the Ballearic Islands, Spain. Paper title: "Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas." Tourism Geographies.
2024
Shize Zhang, School of Geographical Science, University of Bristol, UK. Paper title: "Navigating the Journey from Fishing to Surfing: Unraveling the Constraints on Local Participation in Houhai Village Tourism, China"
2023
Revati Pandya, Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Netherlands. An intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality: Women's engagement with ecotourism at Corbett Tiger Reserve, India - Published in Environment and Planning E
2022
Katarzyna Emin, MSc Student in Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management, University of Florida. Paper title: "Brand Awareness in Textual Data: An Analysis of Tripadvisor.com Reviews on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Poland"
2026
Xiaoyun Neo, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Paper title: Neo, Xiaoyun, Baharuddin, Aswin, and Sunardi, Nur Fadilah. Elephant Economics: Conditions for benefiting from Elephant Tourism Market in an upland Karen (Paganyaw) village.
Ali Mert Ipek, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University
of Manchester, UK. Paper title: A ‘Green Road’ to Rural Development: State,
Infrastructure, and Tourism in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Region.
2025
Nora Müller, University of the Ballearic Islands, Spain. Paper title: "Decommodifying nature through commoning: an alternative for tourism and private protected areas." Tourism Geographies.
2024
Shize Zhang, School of Geographical Science, University of Bristol, UK. Paper title: "Navigating the Journey from Fishing to Surfing: Unraveling the Constraints on Local Participation in Houhai Village Tourism, China"
2023
Revati Pandya, Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Netherlands. An intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality: Women's engagement with ecotourism at Corbett Tiger Reserve, India - Published in Environment and Planning E
2022
Katarzyna Emin, MSc Student in Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management, University of Florida. Paper title: "Brand Awareness in Textual Data: An Analysis of Tripadvisor.com Reviews on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Poland"
