The European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) at Mid Sweden University develops and communicates scientific knowledge about tourism and travel sector as well as destination development.
ETOUR works closely with entrepreneurs and the industry, NGOs, and governmental entities. ETOUR is Sweden's leading tourism research institute. In 2009 it was instrumental in developing the first PhD program in Tourism Studies in Sweden.
ETOUR specializes in four areas of research: (a) Nature based tourism, (b) E-tourism research for developing, marketing, and managing...
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ETOUR has approximately 40 researchers and PhD students connected to the environment, represents a broad range of interdisciplinary background...
Monday 7 October 2024
Planning, development and management of tourism resources was on the agenda during a PhD course at ETOUR – a course with participants from Mid Sweden University as well as from other universities around Europe.
Monday 7 October 2024
Monday 28 November 2022
The idea was raised already in 2017. Three years of active work, 148 researchers involved and 2,000 pages later, he is now holding the two-kilogram book "Handbook of e-Tourism" which gives a broadened and in-depth picture of information and communication technology's impact and influence on tourism.
Monday 28 November 2022
Monday 22 November 2021
Robert Pettersson has been given the honourable mandate to be part of a panel of experts initiated by the International Olympic Committee and the OECD.
Monday 22 November 2021
Thursday 16 September 2021
On Monday 27 September, about 40 experts come to Mid Sweden University to carry out the site visits included in the research evaluation ARC21. Detailed planning is in full swing.
Thursday 16 September 2021
Wednesday 20 January 2021
Mistra Sport & Outdoors is a Swedish research and collaboration programme, led by Mid Sweden University, aiming to generate knowledge and solutions to increase sustainability in sport and outdoor recreation.
Wednesday 20 January 2021
Wednesday 27 May 2020
An increase in demand for highly specialised competence and focus on sustainability - these are some of the topics on tourism discussed by three researchers at the tourism research institute ETOUR at Mid Sweden University.
Wednesday 27 May 2020
The page was updated 11/28/2022