Dr. Miranda Kitterlin and Dr. Michelle Yoo received the Best Paper Award for their work, “Festival Motivation and Loyalty Factors” at the TMS Algarve 2013 – Tourism & Management Studies International Conference held in Algarve, Portugal in November. The study, which was conducted on South Beach Wine & Food Festival participants, will be published in the upcoming issue of Tourism & Management Studies.

Chaplin’s Danqing Liu and Dr. Nancy Scanlon also presented at the conference.