Nordic Symposium in Hospitality and Tourism 2023

The symposium is a research conference delivered under the umbrella of the Nordic Society for Tourism and Hospitality Research (NORTHORS). The symposium provides a platform for academic debate and development in the field of tourism and hospitality research in the Nordic countries and in a wider European and global context. NORTHORS is closely linked to the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, which a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor and Francis.

The Nordic Symposium Theme

The theme for the 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research is Rethinking tourism for a sustainable future. In line with this, the aim of the symposium is to share, discuss and advance science-based ideas and approaches that can transform contemporary crises into opportunities. The quest of conceptualizing and practicing alternative forms of sustainable tourism has never been greater. On one hand, almost every region in the world relies on tourism, for economic reasons. On the other hand, many of the same regions are seriously suffering from either too much or too little tourism (e.g., Venice, Italy; vs. Vännäs, Sweden), unprecedented disruptions associated with social precarization, climate change, and an increased exposure to a globalized economic system affected by financial-market speculation, political destabilization, seats of war, and a pandemic (Covid-19).

In line with the UN-Sustainable Development Goals, the conference’s scientific focus is to add to the still little advanced research aiming at exploring tourism’s potentials to transform untenable realities within the socio-economic and ecological spheres towards more sustainable future paths, especially in the Nordic context.

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