• A Varanger story: Building a world class birding destination, ceo & VRI industry professor Tormod Amundsen, Biotope/UiT
• From Vadsø with love, associate professor Trine Kvidal-Røvik, UiT
• Home and Away: Notes on the ethics and poetics of travelling, professor Anniken Greve, UiT
Tormod Amundsen is ceo and founding partner of Biotope, a company renowned for their fusion of architecture and “birding” tourism in Varanger, and VRI industry professor at our department. He will present the story of Biotope as a Varanger story and reflect on the story’s relation to place. Trine Kvidal-Røvik, cultural analyst and tourism scholar from the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies (UiT), will give a presentation based on an analysis of place symbols and power in her hometown, Vadsø. Finally, Anniken Greve, professor at the Department of Culture, Literature and Linguistics (UiT), will take us on a poetic and philosophical exploration of the meaning of travel and place.
The Open Tourism Seminar in Alta, organised by the research group Narrating the Postcolonial North, Dep. of Tourism and Northern Studies.