NS29 Session 22

29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research
Shaping mobile futures: Challenges and possibilities in precarious times

21-23 September 2021

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Title: Tourism Economics and Management

Organisers: Martin Falk, Sigbjørn Tveteraas, and Jinghua Xie

Affiliation: University of South-Eastern Norway, The Arctic University of Norway & University of Stavanger

Description

This session focuses on how the Nordic tourism industry will cope and adapt to challenges related to COVID-19, sustainability, and other societal challenges. We particularly encourage studies that investigate the current global challenges for tourism and how these will change the landscape of the Nordic tourism industries. For instance, these are the recovery of domestic tourism and the shift of domestic tourism to rural areas and sparsely populated regions. The session covers a range of topics including but not limited to demand, supply, productivity, regulation, pricing, innovation activities and ICT, market structure, online short-term rental platforms, sustainability, and more.

Furthermore, this session invites scholars who want to contribute to quantitative and other empirical research in the fields of tourism economics and management. Economics and management disciplines have much to offer in the increasingly complex challenges facing tourism, especially in relation to the three pillars of sustainability. Quantitative methods such as causal methods (Difference-in-differences, synthetic control methods, coarsened exact matching), micro econometric methods (discrete choice models, limited dependent variable methods), spatial econometric methods and marketing methods (contingent valuation, conjoint analysis) are particularly welcome. Another aim of attracting more economists to this conference is to encourage more interdisciplinary research as a viable response to the complexity of travel and tourism and finding innovative solutions to shared challenges.

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