We’re seeking critical, engaged empirical research presentations for our Special Track at ATLAS 2026 in Leeds, UK from 23rd to 26th June 2026.
This special track will examine how digital platforms are transforming work in tourism and hospitality. In a sector already characterised by precarious employment, low unionisation rates, and a high number of young, women, and migrant workers, it will address what this increasing digitalisation means for worker wellbeing in particular.
Topics for consideration might include, but are not limited to:
- Is there a well-being crisis in T&H work?
- How platformisation of the T&H sector leads to both positive and negative impacts on workers’ well-being
- Case studies of how T&H platforms influence vulnerable T&H workers
- Ways in which algorithmic surveillance in T&H work relates to precarious working conditions
- How tripartite (workers-industry-trade unions) social dialogue operates in the T&H industry
- What barriers or opportunities for collaboration are there for social dialogue in T&H?
- How T&H platforms act as mediators, attracting and selecting self-employed platform workers, how they reconfigure the roles and responsibilities of human resource management, and what is their impact on worker’s experiences
- What the implications are of platformisation at the intersections with other stakeholder groups (apart from workers) such as the destination, local community or tourists
- A focus on gendered, intersectional perspectives and how these may impact well-being, social dialogue and platformisation.
The special track includes both paper presentations and an interactive workshop session to discuss how our research, outputs and dissemination can make a difference. The workshop will bring together scholars and stakeholders for activities, lively discussion and scenario planning to promote worker wellbeing in platform-based tourism and hospitality work.
Read the full call and submission details on the ATLAS website.
