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Last week, TourNord partners met up in Bergen, Norway to discuss topics such as resilience, sustainability, regenerative tourism and overtourism.

ITRC received a research grant from the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration for the research project What about tourism? Analysis of the role of the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration in the sustainable development of tourism destinations and travel routes in Iceland.

The ITRC announces call for papers to the new peer reviewed tourism research Journal of Arctic Tourism (ArcTour). The journal is an online only, open access, free of charge forum for interdisciplinary discussions on tourism in the Arctic

The Icelandic Travel Industry Association and ITRC annually assign two awards in recognition of an outstanding dissertation on tourism produced by a student/students of an Icelandic university.

Johannes (Hans) Welling is a new member of the ITRC team, as a project manager and researcher. He will lead a grant application process for the Icelandic Research Fund and applications for other international research projects.

The ITRC is a participant in the Erasmus+ project Tourism Crisis Navigation, which has its goal to design and produce teaching material, in order to strengthen the resilience of the tourism industry in crisis.

Edita Tverijonaitė defended her doctoral thesis in Tourism Studies at the University of Iceland yesterday. Edita is the second doctoral student to graduate from the PhD-program of Tourism Studies from the University of Iceland.

Journal of Arctic Tourism is a new scholarly journal in the field of tourism, published by the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre.

ITRC recently joined a Nordic network aimed at improving tourism education in the Nordics: TourNord.

A virtual kick-off meeting was held today for a new Erasmus+ project, Women Leadership in Tourism, Leisure & Hospitality (We Lead)