ETOUR - PROFILE

• Today – 22 employees

• 3 professors appointed in 2008– Human Geography (Tourism emphasis)– Tourism– Nature-based tourism (SVEASKOG)

• Mid-Sweden University (Campus Östersund)– Part of University’s Research Profile in:– Tourism, Sports Science, and Adventure Technology

• First PhD Program in Tourism Studies in Nordic Countries– Established 2009

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• Ongoing Projects (examples)– Outdoor Recreation in Change– Tourism in World Heritage Areas– Climate Change and Nature-Based Tourism– Tourism and Labor Mobility

• Main Source of External Funding– VINNOVA – Research and Innovation for Sustainable

Growth– Swedish Environmental Protection Agency– SVEASKOG – state-owned forest company

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Bo Svensson - Director

• Government and Governance in Tourism;

• Innovation Policy and Tourism Development;

• Innovation Processes in the Tourism Industry.

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Peter Fredman – Professor of Nature Based Tourism

• Outdoor recreation participation and demand;

• Non-market valuation of economic impacts;

• Visitor monitoring;

• Tourism in protected areas;

• Nature tourism planning and management.

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Dimitri Ioannides – Professor of Human Geography

• Tourism and Sustainable Development;

• Tourism and carrying capacity (especially in island regions);– Growth management techniques

• Tourism planning;

• Tourism and regional economic development.

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Robert Pettersson - Docent

• Studies focusing on Sami and Indigenous development;

– How sustainable indigenous tourism can be undertaken?

– How climate change affects rendeer herding and the Sami?

– How commercial hunting and fishing can develop in Sapmi?

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