Air bnb
Many cities around the world have experienced tremendous growth in short-term rentals due to Air bnb's growing popularity. But what happens to residential areas, the labor market and local resident...
Tourism Studies
Ongoing Research Projects
Outdoors, Events and Social Integration
The aim of this project is to understand how outdoor recreation and events can be used as drivers for social integration of immigrants in Östersund.
Google Maps for Tourism Monitoring and Analytics: The Case of Cultural Tourism, Sweden
With over 1 billion active users, Google Maps ranges among the most popular web-portals for travel information search. This project aims to monitor the fragmented cultural tourism offer and to...
New perspectives on tourism, events and regional development(2)
This project aims to study how tourism is affecting the long-term development of the region of Jämtland in social and socio-economic terms.
Supporting adoption of climate-smart solutions with lab-based experimental social science
The aim of this project is to stimulate adoption of climate change mitigation solutions in tourism and hospitality sector by identification and experimental testing of innovative sustainable busine...
Reduced climate footprint at winter destinations by "boosting" sustainable food choices
The project objective is to study consumer and producer choices of food in the Swedish hospitality sector and how these choices can help reduce negative climate related effects.
Mistra Sport and Outdoors
Mistra Sport & Outdoors is a Swedish research and collaboration programme aiming to generate knowledge and solutions to increase sustainability in sport and outdoor recreation.
Popular Culture Tourism
PopCulTour is a research project that focuses on how value is created in popular (pop) culture tourism, i.e. tourism induced by for example film, television and literature. The research project...
Tourism in Contested Space
This project focuses on the role of tourism in the highly contested Israeli-Palestinian context.
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