APTA Annucal Conference Proceedings
This site is for the Annual Conference Proceedings of APTA (Asai Pacific Tourism Association). APTA has organized an annual international conference since 1995.
​All the papers and abstracts submitted for the conference are rigorously reviewed for the decision of presentation at the conference. ONLY those papers accepted and presented during the conference are filed up and published through this website.​
Aim & Scope
The goal of the APTA Proceedings is to provide a platform for practitioners and academicians to promote, share, and discuss various issues and development in the field of tourism and hospitality. This proceedings aims to disseminate interesting ideas and practices regarding tourism and hospitality more quickly and widely without barriers often imposed with traditional journal publication routines.
​All manuscripts were prepared in English, and were subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online with author(s)' content. The proceedings publishes original papers that covers all fields of tourism and hospitality.
Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement
The APTA proceedins is an international peer-reviewed publication. This statement clarifies ethical conduct to all parties involved in manuscript publication in the proceedings. This statement is conformed to Practice Guidelines for publication as in Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE’s Best).
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Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication
The publication of an article is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher as well as the assocation.
Editorial Board members of the APTA Proceedings are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or any other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.
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Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the annual conference should be accepted for publication. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the proceeding's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor is responsible for conferring with other editorial board members or reviewers in making this decision.
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Fair play
An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
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Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Duty of Authors
Reporting Standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical conduct and are unacceptable.
Data Access and Retention
Authors should be prepared to provide public access to data used for their paper, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing conduct and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper