Winter: New Turns in Arctic Winter Tourism

Kari Jæger

Name, academic degree:

Kari Jæger

Academic title:

Assistant Professor

Affiliation:

UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Tourism and Northern Studies

E-mail:

kari.jager@uit.no

Link to CV:

 CV

Research Interests/Activities in the Winter project:

My research so far is in event and tourism studies, with focus on festivals, identity, volunteering, sport festivals and the connection between tourism and events. Some publications are in Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism and Event Management. My PhD will be submitted autumn 2013, and is titled Understanding Festivals & Festival Tourism in the European Northern Periphery. In this research project my interestswill be on what is the role of the volunteers and the mushers in to tourism within Finnmarksløpet and the Iditarod of Alaska? How does it affect the races as a tourism catalyst? I want to explore what are the touristic experiences created in the context of volunteer tourism and as special interests tourism? And how is the arctic nature important or influencing on the experience? I’m also interested in what are the meeting place and the joint actions in the two races, and how has it developed and changed. Another interesting part is in what way do the volunteers and the mushers influence on the two races in an identity perspective, and how do the local societies identity along the trail for the two races,  influence on the volunteers and the mushers.




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