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The 2021 WRSA Meeting Program will be available later in early January 2021!

I look forward to seeing you all in Palm Springs!

The preliminary program for our upcoming meeting in Waikiki is now available here! 

This means the time to register for the meeting and book your hotel room is NOW. 
Full details are available on the website!
Remember the deadline for hotel reservations and pre-registration is February 21!

Best wishes from WRSA for a happy and productive 2020!

Many of you already made your reservations for the upcoming 2020 WRSA/PRSCO Joint Meeting at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki Beach.
I strongly recommend you to make a reservation for the hotel rooms at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki, Hawaii as soon as you finalize your travel plan. 

To help you, WRSA wants to highlight the following points about your accommodation at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki Beach.

1. By STAYING in the Conference Hotel, participants are helping each other to reduce the average room rate and the cost for the meeting
WRSA committed a minimum number of room nights to the conference hotel (Hilton Resort Hawaiian Village in Waikiki). In return, WRSA gets free access to the meeting spaces and the discounted daily room rates for our participants. If we do not meet the minimum room nights, we will be charged for the meeting spaces and can be required to pay room charges if our group fails to fill the contracted minimum room nights. That would cause us to raise the conference registration fee for future meetings. By staying in the conference hotel, we are helping each other to reduce the overall cost of the meeting and the negotiated room rate with the hotel.
That is why the participants for 2020 WRSA/PRSCO meeting staying at the conference hotel get the $160 discount for registration. 

2. The negotiated room rate for our members and participants is very competitive—and the Daily Resort Fee is “OPTIONAL,” not mandatory, as it would be if you do not book using our special rate.
As of today, according to the online hotel reservation sites, such as “Hotels.com” and “Kayak.com”, the comparable hotels and resorts in Waikiki have a daily rate over $250, compared to our negotiated room rate at the Hilton, $229/night (plus applicable taxes). Additionally, the resort charge is “OPTIONAL” at a discounted rate of $20 per night, compared to the mandatory $45 to $50 per night for most of the hotels and resort in Waikiki. If you book through third-party online reservations services, you will pay the daily resort fee of $50 at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki. Again, the resort charge is “OPTIONAL” and you do not need to pay unless you plan to use basic guest internet access (up to 2 devices), Hawaiian cultural activities, and outdoor morning exercise classes. The hotel has agreed to honor our special room rate three days prior to and following our meeting (Mar 18th through Mar 21st), based on availability.

3. Daily Parking Fee is $49 for visitors and commuting is not a good idea!
Parking at the Hilton Resort Hawaiian Village will be $49 for 5 hours or more.  Parking, in general, is extremely expensive in Waikiki and Honolulu in general.  Also, commuting to the conference hotel in Waikiki during the morning and evening rush hours can be very congested.

4. Most importantly, all of us will be in Hawaii for sharing and discussing interesting ideas not only in the meeting rooms, but also at the lobby, bars, and even in elevators!  
We are excited to meet old and new friends and colleagues for the 2020 WRSA/PRSCO Joint Meeting in Hawaii. We will meet them officially in the plenary and breakout sessions by topics. However, WRSA always encourages informal scholarly interaction and collegiality that extends beyond the official conference activities! You will expand opportunities for yourself and others to make new friends and get to know colleagues better by staying in the conference hotel, so, again, we offer a lower conference registration fee for all who do so.

HOW TO RESERVE YOUR ROOM:

Rooms may be reserved via this link (https://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/H/HNLHVHH-BEW-20200312/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG) or  by calling 808-949-4321 and asking for the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA 2020) group rate. 
Please note: after February 21, 2020, or as soon as our block fills, the hotel will no longer honor our special room rate! So be sure to book early!

Students wishing to minimize costs by sharing a room: please feel free to contact me via email. 

The overview of the program for our upcoming joint meeting in Hawaii is now available here! 

Remember the extended deadline for paper (or abstract) submission is Dec 15th!
Also, the deadline for hotel reservations and pre-registration is February 21!

This is a reminder for submitting your paper before the extended paper submission deadline for our annual meeting in Waikiki, Hawaii, March 18-21, 2020.
The extended due is Dec 15th, just 6 days away.
Be sure to get your paper (or abstract) submitted before then!

Ready to submit? There’s no reason to wait until the last minute. Simply visit the WRSA website and use the Login/Register link at the left to upload your paper and register for the meeting.

Remember that the hard deadline for the Graduate Students’ Paper Competition for Tiebout Prize is still November 15. If you are applying for Tiebout Paper Competition, submit your full paper by Nov 15.

I also encourage you to make your travel arrangements early. We will be meeting at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, where our negotiated room rate is $229/night (plus taxes). Reservations can be made via this link or by calling 808-949-4321and asking for the Western Regional Science Association group rate. The hotel has agreed to honor our special room rate three days prior to and following our meeting dates (Mar 18th through Mar 21st), based on availability. 
Please note: after January 21, 2020, or as soon as our room block is full, the hotel will no longer honor our special room rate! Be sure to book early!

I’m also still looking for several students to assist with meeting registration in Hawaii. In exchange for 8-10 hours of volunteering at the registration desk, students will receive a complete rebate of their preregistration fees (worth $150, to be processed as a refund following the meeting). Contact me if you’re interested.

As you may know, eminent regional scientist Roger Stough died in September 2019. He was important to the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA) for many reasons. He was a long-time editor of our journal the Annals of Regional Science, a Fellow of the WRSA and served as President of the WRSA in 2002. We invite you to submit a paper to be considered for inclusion in one of our special sessions honoring Roger Stough.  

To identify your paper for consideration for the special sessions, please add the following line to your title page “Paper for consideration to be included in the Special Sessions honoring Roger Stough at the WRSA-PRSCO meetings March 18-21, 2020.”

The WRSA website for submission is now open (www.wrsaonline.org). Short abstracts, as well as full papers (also in draft format), will be accepted for the Special Session. Full papers benefit from the traditional WRSA 45-minute per paper time slot. Submissions with abstracts only will be allocated a shorter time block. The submission deadline is December 15, 2019, for full-length original papers or abstracts.

Please submit your paper directly to the WRSA website as an individual paper. Also email a second copy of your papers and abstracts to the session organizers, Janet Kohlhase (jkohlhase@uh.edu) and Haifeng Qian (haifeng-qian@uiowa.edu). Please put “WRSA Roger Stough special sessions” in the subject line of your email. If you have already submitted your paper or abstract through the WRSA online portal, please email a copy to the organizers noting your interest.

Selected papers from these sessions may be invited for publication in a special issue of the Annals of Regional Science, following standard review/revision procedures. Details about the special issue honoring Roger Stough will be forthcoming.

The abstracts/papers will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee and the notification of acceptance will be distributed by January 20, 2020.

Organizing committee:
For more information or questions please contact: Janet Kohlhase at the University of Houston (jkohlhase@uh.edu) or Haifeng Qian at the University of Iowa (haifeng-qian@uiowa.edu).

Areas of Interest
We are looking for academic papers that honor the work of Roger Stough. Authors may have ties with Roger or not. Former-students, co-authors, and colleagues are especially encouraged to participate. Topics are wide open in regional science, but as a guide consider that his research interests included entrepreneurship and innovation, science and technology policy, regional economic development, regional economic modeling, transport policy, and leadership and institutions.

As part of the 26th Pacific Conference of the RSAI, to be held jointly with the 59th Annual Meeting of the WRSA in Waikiki, Hawaii from March 18 to 21, 2020, Nectar clusters 5 and 6 are organizing a Special Session on “Regional Science and Tourism”. 
Short abstracts, as well as full papers (also in draft format), will be accepted for the Special Session. Full papers benefit from the traditional WRSA 45-minute per paper time slot. The submission deadline is November 15, 2019, for full-length original papers (not previously published). 
During your submission, do not forget to add that your paper is submitted for the Nectar Special Session on Regional Science and Tourism. Please, also send a copy of the submission to Juan Carlos Martin, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, jcarlos.martin@ulpgc.es and Luca Zamparini, University of Salento, luca.zamparini@unisalento.it.
The abstracts/papers will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee and the notification of paper acceptance will be distributed by December 20, 2019.

Selected full papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Regional Science Policy & Practice Journal, following standard review/revision procedures. (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802).

For details, please click here.