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Please note, the conference schedule is set in Icelandic local time!
Tuesday 21. September
12:00 – 12:15 Welcome
Address by the director of the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre - Guðrún Þóra Gunnarsdóttir
Address by the rector of the University of Akureyri - Eyjólfur Guðmundsson
Address by the minister of Tourism, Industry and Innovation - Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir
12:15 – 13:15 Keynote speaker
Edward H. Huijbens, Professor and Chair, Wageningen University & Research, Cultural Geography Research Group (GEO): Future Perfect? Earthly tourism attachments
Session Chair: Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson
13:15 – 13:30 Break
13:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
- Session 3: Transformative tourism science for a sustainable world: Critical reflections on tourism science’s ontological and ethical foundations
- Workshop 5: Think globally – act locally – local materials as actors in developing doughnut (Raworth, 2012) destinations for sustainable tourism futures
- Session 9: Celebrating proximity in tourism
- Session 16: Sustainable behaviour in tourism and hospitality
- Session 22: Tourism Economics and Management
Wednesday 22. September
8:00 – 10:00 Parallel Sessions
- Session 1: Re-creating destinations as storyscapes
- Session 2: Developing the concept of inclusive tourism
- Session 8: Urban tourism development: challenges and possibilities in the wake of Covid-19
- Session 17: Options and Needs for Wilderness Tourism
- Session 23: Uncertain futures? From overtourism to re-starting tourism Part 1
- Session 28: Tourism and hospitality work in precarious times
- Session 31: Advancements in Event & Festival Research
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15-12:00 Parallel Sessions
- Session 6: Capturing mobility: Visual methods in Tourism Studies
- Session 7: Influence of Equipment and Technology on Outdoor Pursuits
- Session 10: Entrepreneurship and Family Business: Dynamics and challenges in the European tourism sector
- Session 11: Asian mobilities in the changing Arctic: theory and contexts
- Session 23: Uncertain futures? From overtourism to re-starting tourism Part 2
- Session 24: Marketing and Service Management in Precarious Times
- Session 29: City tourism development – challenges and possibilities of mobile future
12:00 – 12:15 Break
12:15 – 13:15 Keynote speaker
Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester: Eco-intimacies on the Margins of Industrial Britain: Heritage, Nature and Atomic Legacy in West Somerset, UK.
Session Chair: Katrín Anna Lund
13:15 – 13:30 Break
13:30 – 14:45 Parallel Sessions
- Session 4: Circular Economy, Circularity Paradigm, and Local Space
- Session 18: Tourism Education Methodologies for Inclusion and Emancipation in Precarious Times
- Session 26: Methods measuring sustainability effects of tourism development for benefit of local communities and rural areas
- Session 32: Other themes
13:00 – 14:30 NORTHORS Board-meeting
Thursday 23. September
8:00 – 10:00 Parallel Sessions
- Workshop 3: The Really Big Idea Sketchpad Approach to Shaping Mobile Futures in a COVID19 World: From Ideation to Execution
- Session 5: Tourism innovation for precarious times Part 1
- Workshop 7: Mapping the Beaten Track (MBT): Modelling tourism consumption in real time with GPS-methods
- Session 12: Tourism and other land uses: Coexistence, potential conflicts, or opportunities for symbiotic relationships? Part 1
- Session 19: Sustainable tourism in rural landscapes of the Anthropocene
- Session 25: Coping with the Arctification of Northern Tourism before, during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Session 27: The new decade of tourism experiences – Everything has changed or has it? Part 1
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:30 Parallel Sessions
- Session 5: Tourism innovation for precarious times Part 2
- Session 12: Tourism and other land uses: Coexistence, potential conflicts, or opportunities for symbiotic relationships? Part 2
- Session 15: Overtourism: Challenges and possibilitiesin precarious times
- Session 20: Towards smarter and more sustainable coastal tourism
- Session 27: The new decade of tourism experiences – Everything has changed or has it? Part 2
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:45 Keynote speaker
Outi Rantala, Professor, Responsible Arctic Tourism, University of Lapland: Re-thinking tourism with our proximate surroundings
Session Chair: Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir
12:45 – 13:00 Break
13:00 – 15:00 Parallel Sessions
- Workshop 4: Philosophizing Tourism in Troubling Times
- Session 14: The importance of slow food and what it means for gastro tourism and slow travels
- Session 21: Migrant workers in tourism: seeking clarity, accepting complexity
- Session 30: Staying with the trouble of cruise communities in a post-covid world
15:00 – 15:15 Closing
Closing remarks by the Organising committee
Introducing NS30 in Finland 2022 - Jarmo Ritalahti
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