Travel, hotels and costs
Conference fees & costs
The conference fees will be in line with the fees for ISSOTL22. We estimate the Early Bird rate to be 505 Euros (approximately $500). More information regarding the fees will follow shortly. The costs for a hotel room will vary between 135 euros (approximately 134 dollars) and 220 euros (approximately 218 dollars) per night per person, including breakfast.
How to get to the conference
Utrecht’s convenient central location makes the city easy to reach for participants from all over the world.
For international travellers, the city can easily be reached in half an hour from Schiphol International Airport, located just outside of Amsterdam. A direct train from the airport – leaving every fifteen minutes – swiftly takes you to the central train station in Utrecht (34 minutes). Please note that getting around in Dutch cities by car is very unconventional, inconvenient, and expensive – we discourage renting a car.
Travelers from Europe can use the well-connected international railway and ferry network, connecting Utrecht to (for instance) Brussels, Paris, Berlin and London. International trains to Utrecht include the Thalys, TGV, City Night Line, Intercity Antwerp/Brussels, ICE International and Eurostar. Utrecht University developed a train zone map to encourage traveling by train to Utrecht. This map shows which European destinations are easy to reach by train. On this page you can read why travelling by train makes such a difference.
A Conference on Decoding the Disciplines (Aachen, Germany)
An international conference on Decoding the Disciplines is scheduled for November 6-7, 2023, in Aachen, Germany. Anyone interested in the approach is welcome to attend and/or share their work in the field. Aachen is less than three hours from Utrecht, and participants are encouraged to attend the ISSOTL meetings there immediately after the Decoding conference. The deadline for the submission of papers is March 15, 2023.
More information about the conference is available here.