Teaching Tourism Walking Workshop- 
TeToWaWo 2025

Click here to check out a video introducing TeToWaWo2025, multimodal activities, and multiliteracies!These workshops have the word ‘Tourism’ at the front, and we realised last year that this is both a blessing and a curse. Whereas the organisers all come from the fields of tourism, hospitality and events education, the learning activities and assessments are equally applicable in any other field. The curse is that the word ‘tourism’ might turn away a colleague who teaches in a different faculty as they might imagine that the workshop has nothing to do with their practices. – Nothing is further from reality. – We all learn from one another, regardless of what field we represent (exemplified by colleagues representing literature, linguistics, archaeology, and indigenous studies amongst others last year). It is also a blessing as tourism is a common nominator that is easy to perceive as a metaphor for society – regardless of what we teach, we can use tourism as an applied field to make the concepts we want to impart to our students come alive.

This year we want to hear about both successful and unsuccessful attempts at ‘breaking away’ from a teacher-focused learning environment. These can be:

• Successful multimodal* activities or assessments inside or outside of classrooms
• Unsuccessful multimodal activities or assessments inside or outside of classrooms
• Examples of activities or assessments fostering critical multiliteracies* amongst learners
• Practical challenges with attempts at creating active learning environments.
• Reflections on institutional resistance or hurdles to non-teacher-focused learning environments
• Reflections on student resistance or hurdles to active learning environments
• Successful and unsuccessful incorporation of local community or organisation ‘problems’ in learning environments.

*Are you wondering about what multimodality and multiliteracies refer to? If you are, then you can see an explanation in Johan’s submission to the previous conference which you can find here.

Each workshop will be capped to a maximum of 15 participants, so that everybody gets a chance to interact, listen and hear from others, and share their own experiences in an open and relaxed atmosphere.

Participants will incorporate:

• Researchers, educators, practitioners and postgraduate students with an interest in how to enhance values-based education in non-traditional learning modes.
• Teams of colleagues (each acting as local hosts) from:
  • Hosei university (Tokyo)
  • Wakayama University
  • Hiroshima University
  • Asia-Pacific Ritsumeikan University (Beppu)
• A team from Hokkaido University handling programming, administration, leadership at the walks, audio-visual logistics, and publications.

The abstract submission is to be sent at least three (3) weeks ahead of the workshop in question to the following email address: tetowaco@elms.hokudai.ac.jp
Email title: Tetowawo2025[location]_abstract

Sapporo – Workshop date June 28 (Saturday) – Submission date June 13
Tokyo – Workshop date September 27 (Saturday) – Submission date September 6
Beppu – Workshop date November 2 (Sunday) – Submission date October 12
Wakayama – Workshop date November 7 November 8 (Saturday) – Submission date October 17
Hiroshima – Workshop date November 30 (Sunday) – Submission date November 9

Extended abstracts: once abstracts are accepted, extended abstracts will be requested.
Full Papers (optional): full papers should be submitted towards the end of November for inclusion in the proceedings.

Submission format
We encourage multimodal contributions, and participants may submit their abstracts in written, visual, or audiovisual form. Please refer to this PDF document for the corresponding format requirements.

Registration and payment on separate Peatix website when your abstract has been accepted.
Student price: 2,000 JPY (for one workshop)
Non-student price: 5,000 JPY (for one workshop)

* In principle, participants may take part in the hiking activity without presenting. However, should the number of workshop participants exceed 15, priority will be given to those who have submitted an abstract.

The program and on-the-day information for the Sapporo workshop are now available. Please check them out.

The detailed routes for the other workshops will be announced later
Each route will be approximately 10-15km long, and take participants through a range of different terrains, including suburban streets, parks, river sides, and industrial estates. We aim to find routes that allow for excursions to local businesses and NPOs to hear about their perceptions of how communities can co-exist in mutually supportive ways with tourism and leisure.

Each workshop is planned to be a 6–8-hours immersive experience. Filled not only with walks, but also plenty of breaks, stops at local restaurants and cafes to recuperate and support local initiatives, discussions and laughter. Indeed, we hope to create happy experiences where participants feel they can relax in the company of likeminded people, whilst still sharing important professional information with one another.

In addition to TeToWaWo, our local partners are also hosting related events:

• RCC Cultural Center, Hiroshima

the 2025 Special Symposium of the Japanese Society of Geographical Sciences/ Geographical Association of Japan100 Year Anniversary Event
Saturday, November 29 - Sunday, November 30, 2025

• Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu

Special Exhibition: War Memories, Peace, and Global Coexistence
Friday, October 31, 2025 - Monday, November 3, 2025

Conference Proceedings
A set of proceedings will be produced based on the outcomes from the walking workshops. See here for the proceedings from 2024.

Edited book
An edited book on the topic is in the making by Channel-View Publications (UK). Participants will be invited to this publication if their contributions meet the guidelines.