Submitting a full paper

Important notes:
  • Authors are encouraged to submit full papers as early as possible but latest by Monday, 3 February 2020
  • Full paper submission is option. Only full papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award
  • Each full paper submission will undergo a double blind review process to ensure quality and adherence to the conference theme. Reviews should take approximately one month. 
  • Authors will be notified if revision is necessary. Authors must be registered and present the paper at the conference. 
  • Full papers are published on the conference proceedings
Kindly ensure you adhere to the formatting requirements. Please use the full paper template.
Full paper specifications:
  • The length of full papers should be around 5,000 words (±10%)
  • Paper size should be A4, portrait orientation
  • Margins 2.54 cm (1.5 inches)
  • Single spacing, double spacing between paragraphs
  • Times New Roman, size 12
  • No headers nor footers, no page numbers, avoid footnotes and endnotes
  • References in APA 6th format
  • Should include these sections:
    • Title of the paper
    • Short abstract (250 words in one paragraph)
    • Up to 6 keywords
    • Introduction
    • Literature review
    • Methodology
    • Findings / Results
    • Discussions
    • Conclusions
    • References 

Submit here:

​Please submit via Easy Chair - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2020 
You do not need to create a new submission. Just log in to Easy Chair and click on your submission. On the top right corner, click "Update file" and submit your full paper in PDF format. We may contact you for a Word version if the paper containts formatting issues. 

Publication opportunities

All abstracts are published on the conference proceedings.

All authors are invited to submit a full paper for consideration of the Best Paper Award. Unless specified by the author, all full papers are published on the conference proceedings. 

ICE supports all endeavours towards a green, sustainable event. Whenever possible, we strive to minimise the use of one-off materials and printing. The conference proceedings are in electronic format distributed to all conference delegates. 
We have partnered with select journals. Authors of good papers are invited to submit to these journals for an expedited review for consideration of publication. We thank these journals for the support:
  • International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
  • International Journal of Event and Festival Management
  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights