ETOUR specializes in four areas of research: (a) Nature based tourism, (b) E-tourism research for developing, marketing, and managing tourism destinations, (c) Tourism's economic, political, and spatial dynamics, (d) Destinations

Ongoing Research Projects

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...

Imagining immigrants as outdoor tourism fellows

The aim of the project is to get an understanding of outdoor events values as recreational and tourism arenas to build up social networks, bonding and bridging different groups of communities, and...

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.

Nordic Symposium in Hospitality and Tourism 2023

The European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) at Mid Sweden University, will host the 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research on 19-21 Sep 2023. The symposium will focus on the...

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...

Regenerative nature tourism – REGGAE

The aim of the project is to promote accessible and regenerative tourism and to enhance the well-being of entrepreneurs in the project area by building networks and clusters, developing courses,...

Tourism Enclaves

In this research, we discuss and overview the nature and basic ideas related to enclaves and enclavisation processes in tourism development and tourist consumption.

The page was updated 3/3/2023