Language and Cross-Cultural Communication in Travel and Tourism

Soumya Sankar Ghosh, PhD, is Senior Assistant Professor (I) at the School of Advanced Sciences and Languages at VIT Bhopal University, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has worked on conversation model building and dialogue processing in machine learning. He has published papers in international journals and conference proceedings and is a national advisory committee member of the International Conference on Rhythm in Speech and Music and a general member of the Linguistic Society of India.Debanjali Roy is Assistant Professor (I) at the School of Language and Literature at KIIT University, Odisha, India. She is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Calcutta. She has contributed to English language teaching and gender studies through her field-based research and has published articles in international journals. She has received scholarships funded by international organizations, including the American English Institute at the University of Oregon and the European Union.Tanmoy Putatunda is Assistant Professor (I) at the School of Language and Literature at KIIT University, Odisha, India. She is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Calcutta. She has contributed to English language teaching and gender studies through her field-based research and has published articles in international journals. She has received scholarships funded by international organizations, including the American English Institute at the University of Oregon and the European Union.Nilanjan Ray, PhD, is Associate Professor of Management Studies at JIS University, India. His former roles include Associate Professor, Head of Department, and Director IQAC at the Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship and Development. He was also associated with Adamas University as Associate Professor of Marketing Management and Centre Coordinator for Research in Business. Dr. Ray published research papers in national and international journals as well as several books. He has one patent from Germany and two copyrights from India.

• SECTION I: CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM 1. Passenger Identity in Public Transport Awareness Campaign Posters: Contrastive Study of Communication Styles in Japan and France 2. How Philosophy of Tourism Tussles with Cultural Diversity and Cultural Tolerance 3. Intercultural Communication in Tourism During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Analyzing Audience Appeal of Indian Tourism Campaigns through Social-Media 4. Deconstructing the Notion of Sacred and Profane from the Viewpoint of Theme-Based Durga Puja in Kolkata in the Age of Covid-19: A Sociological Study 5. Covid-19 Pandemic and the End of Overtourism: A Perspective SECTION II: NARRATIVE OF PLACE AND SPACE 6. Transfiguring the Troubled Past through Narratives 7. Literary Ethnography and Travel Aesthetics: Amitav Ghosh’s the Hungry Tide and Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarbans 8. Journeying through the Lesser-Known Indian Spaces: A Reading of Biswanath Ghosh’s Chai, Chai SECTION III: TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY 9. Imagined Communities: The Development of the Early Tourist Industry in Alaska and the Marketing of the Indigenous Experience 10. Multimodal Approach to Tourism Advertising Discourses 11. The Saga of Kochi: Cultural and Heritage Tourism Overview 12. Rural Tourism in India: Constraints and Opportunities 13. The Effect of Social Media Sites Promoting the Tourism Industry: An Indian Perspective