Workshop on Euroarctic Cross-Border Tourism

The workshop is hosted by the project “Norwegian-Russian Teaching Partnership in Northern Tourism” (Barents turisme nettverk for utdanning og utvikling av grensekryssende reiseliv) at the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies Campus Alta and Kirkenes.

Arctic nature, with its wildlife and winter, open landscapes and enigmatic northern lights, constitutes the main fascination and economic driver of northern tourism today. At this workshop we wish to emphasise the cultural qualities of the high north,  and to tie this to a discussion on the potential for a northern, cross-border teaching partnership on tourism management. The workshop is organised in partnership with the research program “Neighbourly Asymmetry: Norway and Russia 1814-2014”, at the Department of History and Religious Studies, Campus Tromsø. Russian and Norwegian scholars from that program will report new findings and ideas along with communications by invited museum specialists, tourism researchers, teachers and operators. This will open for discussions, in the concluding workshop-sessions, on the need for further professional networking in northern tourism and on the prospects of multilateral tourism management training.

Interested persons are welcome to apply to attend.  Participation is free of charge but limited for practical reasons. Application should be made to Urban Wråkberg, Department of Tourism and Northern Studies, Campus Kirkenes.

The programme is forthcoming.