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graphy of Tourism, Leisure, and Global Change, there were 2016 conference of igu commission 11
four presentations and about 12 attendants per session. The com-
mission also had three joint sessions with the commission C12.28
Local and regional development, with 11 presentations and about
20 attendants on average. The topics addressed were:
• Changing nature of globalization, marginalization and marginal-

ity: new challenges for understanding and responding with sub-
themes:
• marginalization from different perspectives, ethnic and de-
privileged social groups and marginalization;
• border and rural areas socio-economic imprint of margin-
ality;
• commuting, emigration, and identity;
• poverty, (post)colonialism, segregation and a lack of acces-
sibility.
• Tourism and marginality – local initiatives shaped by global
trends;
• Areas of growth and economic stagnation – the challenges of
globalization and marginalization:
• the implications of globalization on regional development
processes,
• the polarity of development in different spatial scales,
• regional development processes and policy intervention.
The commission’s annual conference took place in a truly margin-
al part of the world, in eastern Turkey, especially marginalized by
the political events just before the conference. Nevertheless, it was
a good experience for all the participants, even though the confer-
ence was almost entirely ignored by Turkish geographers. There-
fore, we only had ten paper presentations divided into three the-
matic sessions:
• Theoretical aspects of marginality and marginalization;
• Marginalization of ethnic groups, minorities, and indigenous
people;
• Economic aspects of marginality and marginalization.